A MOLD company has raised thousands of pounds for charity this year. Mold-based P&A Group has rounded-off a busy and challenging 2020 by raising an impressive £10,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support. The charity provides physical, financial and emotional support to people diagnosed with cancer, from the moment they have been diagnosed through treatment and beyond. The company revealed in February that Macmillan would be its charity of the year for 2020 and had planned a schedule of fundraising activities spread across the year. Inevitably, the pandemic had a major impact on this, however, employees still managed to raise £5,000 by eating cake, running, holding a monthly 50/50 draw and raffling off an extra day’s holiday.
Barking mad THE spy novelist John le Carre, who died earlier this week, was an ethical sort of chap. His novels, which included Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, were highly moral fables about the Cold War. The author’s commitment to fairness and justice also helped a certain Scottish movie icon bag a plum role. When the film was being made of le Carre’s The Russia House, the plan was to have Jeremy Irons in the lead. An epic battle in a London park put paid to that. “Irons’s vicious dogs attacked my smaller dogs,” fumed le Carre. “He never stopped to apologise.”