Late council leader Alan Taylor’s daughter's half marathon raises £400 for Manchester and Cheshire Dogs’ Home

The daughter of late council leader Alan Taylor has raised around £400 in her father’s memory for the Manchester and Cheshire Dogs’ Home in Harpurhey.

Donning an appropriate headband of dalmatian ears, Jane Taylor, who works for Rochdale Borough Council, completed the Manchester Half Marathon for the cause on 13 October, completing the run in 2:40:05.

• www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/129977/late-council-leader-alan-taylors-daughter-to-run-manchester-half-marathon-in-his-memory-for-manchester-and-cheshire-dogs-home

She said: “The crowd really helped – every time someone shouted, ‘well done Jane’ or ‘c’mon Dalmatian ears’, I grinned at them and said, ‘thank you’ and that got me through it. It was such a lovely moment turning the final bend and seeing the 13-mile marker and just beyond it the finish line!

“My Just Giving page will remain open for a while if anyone still wants to donate.”

 

 

Jane decided to support the Dogs’ Home as two of her father’s beloved pets, Poppy and Pelli, came from there.

Alan, who was leader of the council between 2006 and 2009, adopted Poppy in 1999, a year after his old dog Penny died, who he inherited from his mother. 

After Poppy died in 2013, Jane and her step-mum went with Alan in 2014 to look for another dog, adopting Pelli.

Alan, a former Liberal Democrat councillor, peacefully died at his home in Newhey earlier this year.

• www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/127688/obituary-former-council-leader-alan-taylor-has-died

To donate to the Manchester and Cheshire Dogs’ Home, please visit:

• www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Jane-Taylor73