Oldham rugby legend and charity fundraiser Kevin Sinfield who ran seven ultra-marathons in a week has been granted the borough’s highest honour.
On Monday night the former Leeds Rhinos star officially received the title of Honorary Freeman of the Borough, the most prestigious award a council can bestow, during a ceremony in front of local councillors, relatives and friends.
Chief executive Harry Catherall said it was a ‘token of the high esteem’ in which the 42-year-old is held by the ‘townspeople of the metropolitan borough of Oldham and in recognition of his eminent services and inspiring achievements’.
