The co-founder of Factory Records, Alan Erasmus, has returned to Manchester following his humanitarian mission to Ukraine - but he is continuing his charitable work for families torn apart by the war.
The 72-year-old Woodhouse Park-raised actor spent almost week in Lviv in the west of Ukraine after telling shocked friends: "I've fought bullies of one kind or another all my life." And he made good on a promise to help in the fight against Vladimir Putin's Russian forces.
He flew to Poland and travelled by bus over the border to Ukraine as war raged. He clarified at the time: "My plan wasn't to come and shoot people: I'm 72, my eyesight is crap, my hearing is even worse. It was always to identify areas of donation."
