Kelemete cheers on Roughyeds

RUGBY fan Kelemete Raivuni, back right, catches the Roughyeds in action.

FIJIAN teenager Kelemete Raivuni made the most of his trip to Oldham by enjoying a Roughyeds win.

The 16-year-old saw the lads beat the Blackpool Panthers 40-26 at their new stadium in Whitebank Road, Limeside.

Kelemete came to Oldham last month to have a new prosthetic leg fitted after Chadderton student Lisa Buckley heard of his plight.

Lisa’s father, Roy Zaman, a British Army support officer based in Fiji, told her about Kelemete and the primitive and ill-fitting false leg he had been fitted.

Lisa, who is in the third year of a prosthetics and orthotics degree at Salford University, secured £4,000 funding from Rotary International, with help from her father, who is a member of the Suva North Fiji branch. Kelemete came over to Oldham and Lisa, with help from her tutor Dr Glyn Heath, who runs Lacerta, an animal prosthetics clinic in Salford, made him a new prosthetic leg.