Tory's anger over fund refusal to aid sick children
A DEBATE about the use of Brighter Borough funds saw further clashes between councillors at the town hall meeting.
Gareth Fairhurst, Conservative councillor for Standish, said he was “disgusted” that his application to use part of his funds to help sick children was refused.
And he turned on members of his own party who did not help.
He had put forward a motion asking the council to recognise that members should be allowed to use some of their funds to help individual cases.
He singled out two-year-old Cystic Fibrosis sufferer, Naomi Farrington, and Jack Orrell-Bancroft, an autistic boy whose parents are desperate to send him to America for treatment.
After the meeting, he said: “I am bitterly disappointed. Two vulnerable children in Wigan need our help.
“We have a Conservative councillor who has paid 17,000 to one church ... and the Standards Board are investigating, but yet some of my colleagues cannot support these two great causes.”
Tory leader, Mike Winstanley, said Coun Fairhurst did not attend their group meeting in order to justify his motion, and so it was decided that a free vote should apply.
l See Page 6 for more on Naomi
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