Stretching it

From the Northern Times

Sunday August 5th is when Brora woman Pauline MacLennan, the Doll, plans to string up a "washing line of bras" the six miles or so between Golspie and Brora.

She has chosen that date because it coincides with Golspie Gala Week's popular Banger Derby, held at Strathsteven, so there should be plenty of people around.

But Pauline, who launched an appeal for old bras over a year ago, this week revealed that she is still some 900 short of the number needed to stretch from the Spar shop in one village to the Spar shop in the other.

She has now renewed her appeal for anyone who may have bras to donate to send them on to her as soon as possible.

"We're now on the last push towards the finish line so if anyone has any bras ready to give to me, then now is the time," she said.

Breast cancer survivor Pauline is staging the event in aid of the breast care unit at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, where she and other Highland women have received first class treatment. She hopes to raise at least £7500 to buy equipment needed for cosmetic reconstruction work and is already £2000 towards that target.

She has received official support from the Rotary Club of East Sutherland who have made the event an official club charity.

However Pauline's effort to attract a celebrity to add a bit of glamour and glitz to the event have failed. "I've e-mailed loads of television programmes but have never heard anything back," she said. "In any case a celebrity would probably want a great deal of money to appear and I'm not prepared to pay anyone for anything."

Meanwhile Pauline is putting together a squad of volunteers to help with hanging out the bras on the day. They will be strung onto the fences and dykes that border the A9 and will be taped onto the surface of the side roads coming off the trunk road.

She said: "The line of bras will just be up for a couple of hours because we don't want any problems with the police."

Pauline is still seeking sponsorship for the event and is also encouraging local folk to enter a competition she is running to guess the exact number of bras involved in the event. A £100 prize is at stake.

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Any ladies in the UK got a bra going spare?

Tags: bra, brora, golspie, breast, care