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Businessman helps boy get home to say goodbye to his mother

0 Comments | Herald, The; Glasgow (UK), Apr 21, 2010 | by Carolyn churchill

A SCOTTISH businessman has come to the rescue of a 13-year-old boy who faced missing his mother's funeral after he was stranded abroad with his football team.

Mark Shaw, chief executive of Hazledene Group, intervened after he heard about the plight of Connor Cameron, who was stuck in Spain with little hope of making it home to pay his last respects to his mother at her funeral on Friday.

Coaches for Johnstone Burgh FC, which was playing against Real Madrid's junior team, were told it would cost pound(s)5,000 to hire a bus to drive home, but when Mr Shaw, who owns Keanie Park where the Renfrewshire team are based, heard about the situation, he began organising alternative transport.

He arranged for a chauffeur-driven car to collect Connor, a striker with the under-14s team, with one of the coaches' wives and her son. They left Madrid at 1.15pm UK time yesterday and headed north through Spain and France, where they were due to spend the night in Paris.

The car will then take Connor to Zeebrugge in Belgium where he will catch the Norfolkline ferry to Rosyth. He is expected to be home by tomorrow afternoon
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