Star baker’s boost to swim club

Fundraising grandmother Trisha Fairweather has been named a star baker by Perth City Swim Club after raising £500 to support a group of the club’s top swimmers.

The showstopping effort has been made to help fund the costs involved in sending 17 swimmers to a training camp in Tenerife next week.

Trisha sold trays of homemade tablet to customers of James Pirie and Son butchers in Newtyle.

And she conjured up more dough by holding cake sales at several community events in the village.

Trisha, whose granddaughter Fearne Crighton, 13, is among the swimmers jetting off to the week-long camp at the T3 training facility in the Canary Islands, said she was delighted to be able to help out.

She said: “It is a great opportunity for these young swimmers to go and train for a week abroad and I wanted to help out in whatever way I could.

“I enjoy baking so I started selling tablet in the shop and the customers have been brilliant in supporting the kids by buying lots of bags of it.

“I’ve been selling cakes and tablet at other events too and I want to thank the people of Newtyle for their amazing support.”

The 17 swimmers, aged 13 upwards, fund themselves and Trisha revealed the funds she raised would help pay for a bus to transport the team to and from Edinburgh Airport.