Cpl Jack Stanley: Charity event cancelled

Rochdale Council has told a school friend of Littleborough hero soldier Corporal Jack Stanley that a charity event in his honour she had organised and advertised does not meet licensing requirements.

Worried she would be fined, Danielle Dinsmore reluctantly cancelled the event.

Miss Dinsmore had planned a day-long bar crawl with door-to-door collections, stopping off at 28 pubs, to raise money for injured troops.

The 21-year-old told The Bolton News: “It’s ridiculous. Jack’s mum Brenda was not happy at all when she found out because loads of his friends from the army had planned to come over. I think he’d got loads of friends from Bolton coming over too.”

Beverley Wilkinson, licensing manager at Rochdale Council told The Bolton News: “We generally require two weeks notice to issue a permit for house to house or street collections, so ask residents plan ahead and allow time for the application to be processed.”

Cpl Jack Stanley died on 8 April at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham more than two months after being injured in Afghanistan.

The 26-year-old Queen's Royal Hussars' soldier was wounded in a blast caused by a bomb on 3 February.