Bitten by the ballot
Date published: 07 May 2010
OUCH . . . Mr Sutcliffe
ELECTION 2010
Veteran campaigner Jeremy Sutcliffe ended a 40-year record of campaigning without a scratch when he was bitten by a dog.
The former Chadderton North councillor was campaigning in his old ward on Wednesday when he put a leaflet through a letterbox and his little finger was caught by the jaws of a Staffordshire bull terrier.
He said: “Fortunately there was someone near by who knew first aid.
“I have lost a large chunk of skin, but I carried on leafleting before going off to the Royal Oldham Hospital.”
Mr Sutcliffe stood down in 2007, after a political career that began in the former Oldham County Borough Council in 1971.
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