Give Me My Bike Back

A CROSBY schoolboy has been left devastated after his prize mountain bike was stolen just 20 days after he won it.

Twelve-year-old Jamie Stubbs, a pupil at Chester-field High School, had been given the £ 260 Claude Butler bike as a prize for 100 per cent attendance at Sefton's summer school and had it stolen just 20 days later outside The Strand shopping centre in Bootle despite it being chained and locked up.

Crosby MD Matthew Wilson responded to this sorry tale by ringing the Crosby Herald with an offer to buy Jamie a replacement bike to the same value.

Mr. Wilson went along to meet Jamie and his Mum Jackie as the new bike was delivered. Christmas has certainly come early for Jamie this year and he will now be able to deliver his cards and gifts courtesy of his new bike and the generous gesture of Crosby.

MD Matt Wilson said, "It is always such a pleasure to be able to give something back to the community and Jamie certainly earned his bike in the first place. Something similar happened to me when I was in school and I know how devastated I was when this happened."

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