A DRIVING instructor from St Martins has announced he will launch a special offer for an NHS worker once lockdown measures have been lifted.

Neil Kershaw has been overwhelmed by the hard work and selflessness of the NHS staff during the spread of the coronavirus in the UK over the past month, and has pledged to offer free driving lessons to one NHS staff when he returns to business.

It is a move which means the chosen NHS worker using Neil Kershaw Driving School will only have to pay to sit their driving theory and practical tests.

Neil wanted to find a way of giving something back to the health workers for their efforts during this time.

“I just want to be able to give something back really for all the work they’re doing for us,” he explained.

“The work they do is brilliant – I think they should be getting paid extra in times like these, especially working on the frontline.

“I just thought it’d be a nice thing to do to offer a member of NHS staff a free pathway towards their test really.

“We probably don’t realise just how much they do until times like now when you really do appreciate it.

“It’s just my way of saying thank you to them.”

Other businesses in Oswestry have been helping out the NHS where they can too.

Gillhams based in Church Street, in Oswestry, which provided sandwiches and tiffin for the theatre team at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen

The hospital also received a donation of 250 loaves of bread from the Village Bakery.

Groups and clubs around the town have been helping their fellow residents in any way they can too, with the Cambrian Rotary Club among those.