{"id":5390,"date":"2011-07-18T12:43:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T12:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/leicester-schoolkids-rally-round-for-police-bike\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:06:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:06:21","slug":"leicester-schoolkids-rally-round-for-police-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/leicester-schoolkids-rally-round-for-police-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester Schoolkids rally round for Police Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Children raise over \u00a3400 for PC Ash Lorgat<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"middle\" width=\"460\" height=\"249\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ShentonSchoolLorgat_460x225.jpg\"\/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>PUPILS from a Leicester school have presented their local police officer with a bicycle on which he will perform police patrols.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The children of Shenton Primary School raised a total of \u00a3444.00 through a number of fundraising activities to buy a mountain bike for PC Ash Lorgat of Keyham Lane local policing unit.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 405 pupils, aged between 3 and 11years, raised the money by selling cakes at their Rain Forest caf\u00e9, which is located on the school premises, as well as having non-uniform days when pupils paid \u00a31 each for attending school out of uniform.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>PC Ash Lorgat said: \u201cI\u2019m very grateful to the pupils and staff at Shenton Primary School for their generosity. The bike will help me patrol more efficiently, and I\u2019ll keep in touch with regular school visits.\u201d\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Helen Thurston, a teacher at the school added: \u201cSince January 2010 we have been working to develop the relationship between students and the local Police beat team. Our fundraising to buy PC Lorgat a mountain bike has built on that good work, and further enhanced our relationship. The children now have a sense of partnership with the Police, which I think is very good.\u201d\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children raise over \u00a3400 for PC Ash Lorgat &#13; &#13; &#13; PUPILS from a Leicester school have presented their local police officer with a bicycle on which he will perform police patrols.\u00a0 &#13; The children of Shenton Primary School raised a total of \u00a3444.00 through a number of fundraising activities to buy a mountain bike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}