There are some images of war that burn themselves into the mind and can never be removed. Who could forget Nick Ut’s picture of Kim Phuc, the clothes burnt from her body, running from her village in South Vietnam? All the tragedy of war is distilled into its effect on a nine-year-old child.
Jane Burns of Withnell, Chorley was moved by a more recent tragedy.
She watched a news report showing devastating images of children being pulled from underneath rubble in Syria. She says: ‘To see a young child amongst or being pulled out of the rubble, crying, full of dust and then to be told his mother has died is just a global crying shame.’