Mayor saves pensioner’s life

A TOWN mayor saved the life of a pensioner who collapsed at home after a heart attack.

The victim’s son found the phone number of Wootton Bassett mayor Mary Champion on the council’s website and begged her to check on his father who was not answering his phone.

David Read, 60, lives 50 miles from his frail father Stan, 87, and had logged on to the website looking for help. But the offices were closed. Then he saw Champion’s number.