Luke Walmsley
The village was thrust into the spotlight of the media in November 2003, when schoolboy Luke Walmsley was murdered by another pupil in the Birkbeck School, the only time that such an event has happened at a school in the United Kingdom. After Luke's death, his parents set up a Sports Foundation in his memory. The Foundation raised over £150,000. The money was used to build a new pavilion on the village playing fields, to upgrade the sports changing area and to build two brand new full size sports pitches and a mini soccer pitch. After a delay, work started on this on 4 February 2009 and was completed in September 2009.
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“Then turning to the disciples, Jesus said to them privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.””
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 10:23,24.