Hundreds of disadvantaged children in Merseyside were treated to a memorable day out this week, thanks to the actions of a Liverpool cabbie.
Bernie Buxton, 78, from Stockbridge Village, has been coordinating trips for some of the region's most vulnerable young people for the past 38 years. He set up the Liverpool Taxi Drivers Children in Care Outing Fund in 1985, which is estimated to have helped more than 10,000 children since its foundation.
And on Wednesday (July 27), more than 300 youngsters were taken on an all-expenses paid trip to Southport. The children, identified to Bernie via social services and a number of charitable organisations, were taken to the seaside resort in a fleet of 50 taxis, many of which were decked out to celebrate the occasion.
