A NORTH Berwick woman’s charity skydive is back on track after being postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With the easing of restrictions, Kirsty Henderson, 28, takes on the challenge at Skydive St Andrews on Sunday to raise funds for Muirfield Riding Therapy, based at West Fenton. Kirsty has benefited from riding therapy since she was three and is doing a sponsored tandem skydive, from 10,000 feet, as a way of giving back to the charity she says has “changed her life”. She is paying for the costs of the skydive herself so that all donations go to Muirfield Riding Therapy, setting a target of £650.
GLOBETROTTING supporters of an East Lothian charity are making their way ‘Round the World in 90 Days’ as part of Scotland’s Virtual Kiltwalk. Their challenge, which began in January, is raising funds for Muirfield Riding Therapy (MRT), based at West Fenton, near Gullane. The walkers had no idea then if they would reach their target of logging enough team miles to circumnavigate the world by the Virtual Kiltwalk weekend on April 25. But with two months under their belts, they’ve already covered a staggering 19,711 miles. Organisers of The Kiltwalk, named as the UK’s fifth biggest mass participation fundraising event, switched to virtual events in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, raising £7 million in the process.
Susan Law and her husband Cameron with their two sons Gavin and Ewan and two dogs Rudy and Bailey THE owners of a much-loved Gullane hotel have checked out their last guest after decades of dedicated service. The Mallard, on the village’s East Links Road, has been owned and managed by husband-and-wife Susan and Cameron Law since 1987. It was previously owned by Susan’s parents, Iain and Flora Clark, who took the business over in 1963, after running a restaurant in Pitlochry. Iain chose the hotel’s name after being inspired by the wildlife in Aberlady Bay. Sadly, he died four years later but Flora, Susan and the rest of the family worked together to keep the business going.