LICENCE board bosses have come to the rescue after a huge charity event hung in the balance &ndash and they’ve even waived their fee.
Several thousand people are expected at Whitestone Park next Saturday for the inaugural Alec Lucas Memorial Football Tournament. A total of 16 teams will play in honour of the 24-year-old Commando who was killed in action last November. But a planned evening ceremony to follow at the Ex-Servicemen’s Club, where around 350 guests were to be invited, had to be cancelled at the last minute because of membership problems. The tournament’s organising committee had to make a plea for help. And this week they were given the good news that a special drinks licence will be issued for a revised function at the Drill Hall. Carol Drummond, mother of Alec’s fiancee Jill, is part of the tournament’s organising committee.
She told the Peeblesshire News: “We weren’t sure what was going to happen so it was a relief when we found out that we are getting a licence.