A taxi driver from Scole is waiving his fare to go on a 1,000 mile drive in a multi-coloured square car to raise money for a health centre.

Clive Blakesley, owner of Scole Cabs, bought an old £150 Fiesta car and has covered it in coloured vinyl squares in a bid to raise money to buy electric wheelchairs for Norwich's Colman Specialist Rehabilitation centre. Each coloured square has been sponsored by companies across the region and so far it has raised more than £1500.

Mr Blakesley and his friend Jason Wilson, from Stuston and owner of Dissigns and the squares maker, will be driving the car 1,000 miles across the UK from June, 13.

Mr Blakesley, pictured right, said: 'I got the idea when I was visiting my friend Diann Challis at the rehabilitation centre, she has suffered a brain haemorrhage resulting in a stroke. On my visits we found it difficult to get hold of a wheelchair to take her outside. So we decided to do something to change that.'

The centre provides patients with holistic, patient-centred specialist neurological rehabilitation care and support.

The service aims to help people with complex neurological disabilities caused by acquired brain damage and progressive neurological conditions, including stroke and head injury, to develop the knowledge and skills needed for physical, cognitive, psychological and social function.

The journey, named Squares, will take them two days to complete and will see the pair drive through Diss, King's Lynn, Skegness, Grimsby, Scarborough, Sunderland,, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Kilmarnock, Dumfries, Carlisle, Cockermouth, Ambleside, Birmingham, Huntington, Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds, then back to Diss.

To sponsor a square, donate or buy the car afterwards, email Mr Blakesley at squares741@hotmail.com

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