This week’s pictures from the past

The previous picture showed a sponsored Mini push to the top of The Wrekin, which in September 1989 raised cash to send Telford’s Ricky Balshaw to the world famous Peto Institute in Hungary.

Little could they have known that the little child they were helping back then would grow to become a silver medal hero of the 2008 Paralympics.

And here is the team that did it. They are workers and friends from Link 51 on Halesfield, where Ricky’s dad Mick worked. Steve Fox, who loaned us this photo, said: “I was very proud to see him win the silver.”

Steve thinks the Mini was eventually raffled off.