WALES: Charity go-kart in memory of Aled.(News)(Obituary)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: May 12, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: By ERYL CRUMP

FARMERS are to help raise money for two charities in memory of a man who died while working on a farm building roof.

Aled Evans of Rhydymain, near Dolgellau - younger brother of the FUW's North Wales regional manager Dylan Evans - was airlifted from the farm between Arthog and Fairbourne to hospital at Bangor on April 9 and later transferred to the Walton Centre in Liverpool where he died.

The Farmers' Union of Wales has entere...

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