A tireless tailor has delivered his 5,000th piece of PPE to frontline workers in their fight against covid-19. Grateful Tommy Rae was inspired to help medics and care workers after being treated for a massive heart attack two years ago.
Forced to shut his own shops, he moved into a bigger council-owned Glasgow base with machines donated from closed factories.“I was sitting in the house when the shops closed down.
I was in lockdown myself because I’ve got a heart condition,” said Tommy, 54.“A friend who’s a nurse at the Royal came down and said listen, we’re screaming for scrubs, is there anyway we can do something together?”So with a band of 12 volunteers, he set about knocking out vital kit from crowd-funded raw materials at the