In a story
perhaps better suited to the News of the World, Modfather Paul Weller gave a
homeless man a lift to Plymouth when he came to the city on Thursday, it has
been revealed.
Weller,
who started his career in The Jam, helped the Changing Man make his way to the
city where he is hoping to find work.
Paul
Weller started his UK spring tour at Plymouth Pavilions on Thursday, and his
tour bus picked up the former Royal Marine Mark at Taunton services.
Weller
stopped the ex-serviceman Going Underground and kept him out of the Wild Wood,
bringing him to the city.
Mark has
now gone on to Looe where he is camping and looking for work.
Mark had
been living on the East Coast in Lincolnshire and had managed to get to Taunton
with the help of friends and the East-Coast Homeless Outreach.
He missed
another friend who was going to bring him to the city, but managed to blag a
ride in a rock and roll tour bus instead - proving Plymouth is anything but a
Town Called Malice.
The
Outreach's Tony Norbury said: "All in all a great effort from all to get a
homeless person back on their feet."
Paul
Weller has long been a supporter of homelessness causes - including headlining
gigs at the Hammersmith Apollo in aid of the London charity Crisis.
THAT'S
ENTERTAINMENT
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