Modest as ever, a Frome MBE holder, is continuing to raise money for good causes, just days after he turned 98.

Owen Hillier, who many in the town will remember for his decades as treasurer for local causes, is stepping out every day to raise money for the local hospice.

Now in isolation in South Wales, Owen told Nub News: " Well I don't do much, I pull on my cardie and get my stick and then off I go. Honestly it is just something I can do, my daughter and son in law do the rest."

Owen is walking one hundred metres every day to raise money for Dorothy House Hospice care, a charity that the family is very close to, for sadly tragic reasons.

As family they have raised over £72,000 for Dorothy House, taking over fundraising that their son, James who was killed in a car accident in March 2007, had already started after one his friend's dad had recently died there .

Owen who is registered as partially sighted is a war veteran and will be well known to huge numbers of people in Frome.

He was treasurer of countless local organisations:

For 40 years he was treasurer of the Friends of Frome Hospital, 30 years worked for Frome Youth Club and also used his financial expertise in Nunney, where he usually lives.

He is also something of a comic suggesting that " If this goes on and I keep going, maybe I will be running the hundred metres by the time I turn one hundred."

All the family are now in lockdown just outside Abergavenny .

The donation site is here Just Giving

They have already raised nearly three thousand pounds, far exceeding their initial target.

Owen is modest about all his work, from the treasurer posts the latest of which he was still doing six weeks ago, through to serving in the local council.

"I just do what I do. It is a small thing, which I can do..we are in a lovely place, but it is isolated, but we are lucky. This coronavirus is a terrible thing. I feel so sorry for everyone who has this awful disease."