B&Q worker, 90, is spurred on by triple family tragedy

A B&Q floor worker has revealed what gets him up and going to work each morning despite having just celebrated his 90th birthday.

Alan Wrigley has worked as a meet-and-greeter at B&Q in Oldham for the past 20-years. With an encyclopaedic knowledge of the store's layout and a gregarious charm, he has helped countless customers locate what they had entered the mammoth store on Westhulme Way, for.

Having started his first job aged just 15, Alan said he had worked his entire life. And it was only as a mere 70-year old spring chicken that he decided to take a job at the DIY giant.

Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features.

Before this, Alan worked for years as a security guard at a timber yard. But the first of a number of family tragedies around this time set him on a different path.

25-years ago, Alan's family were rocked when his eldest son died unexpectedly of a heart attack. Ever since he has fundraised for The British Heart Foundation, as well as various other charities.

But it wasn't the only family tragedy that spurred him to fundraise over £175,000 over the past 20-years. Alan told the Manchester Evening News that shortly after his eldest son's death, the family experienced further devastation when he lost two grandchildren, fathered by his youngest son.

Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and, Breaking News group by clicking this link

"His first little baby was born asleep, and then he had a little boy. Then after three months they told him the little lad wouldn't live until he was six-months old," Alan said.

Since then he has raised money for many organisations, including Christies, Bleakholt Animal Shelter and closest to his heart is Springhill Hospice,