A life-saving machine dedicated to the man who was a key volunteer with Llangollen's parkrun has been set up in his memory at a local nature reserve.
Earlier this year the team at Old Railway Trail parkrun were devastated to lose one of its regular volunteers, the larger-than-life Scouser David Bird who was a former licensee of the Sun Trevor pub.
He collapsed early one Saturday morning in mid-January doing the course set-up for the run at Wenffrwd Nature Reserve.
Parkrun Co-Event Director Mike Edwards said: "His family have told me the parkrun had become his happy place over recent years since it was established in June 2003.
"Ironically in very early January we had been able to source a Winter Wellbeing Grant from Denbighshire Voluntary Services Council and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board because of concerns that we needed an additional defibrillator at the far end of our course.
"We already have a mobile AED located in the Start/Finish area of our run. Therefore after this tragic loss we decided to dedicate the new defibrillator to Dave’s memory.
* Parkrun's Mike Edwards (second from left, back row) meets David Bird's family at Wenffrwd Nature Reserve.
"This essential emergency equipment has been sourced with the help of the Welsh Ambulance Service and this week I met with David’s family, his wife Ann, his daughter Karen and his son Simon, who fixed an appropriate sign over the cabinet."
Mike added: "I wish to thank Tomos Hughes of the Welsh Ambulance Service, Lisa Williams at DVSC, Stephen Johnson of Llandyn Holiday Park and John Palmer and Laurence O’Donnell of the Friends of Llangollen Health Centre for their help and support in making this facility available.
"The defibrillator is a public facility available to all 24/7 visiting the area around the Wenffrwd Nature Reserve, whether they are walkers, runners or visitors to the Nature Reserve with its nearby trails and paths, the Bearded Mens’ complex or Llandyn Holiday Park."
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