A COUPLE of stranded pensioners were rescued by two 'knights of the road' from Coppull when their 60-year-old vintage vehicle broke down.

Now Peter and Eileen Liptrot want to say a big thank you through the Citizen to their young helpers who stayed with them until the AA arrived at midnight.

The elderly couple were on their way home from a meeting of the Lancashire branch of the Octagon club - for pre-1956 MGs owners - in Mellor when their 1934 model developed battery problems in Euxton.

Peter, aged 65, and Eileen, 60, both struggled to push the vehicle uphill and could not get it going.

Peter explained: "This Range Rover-type vehicle appeared on the other side of the road with these young people in it. They said they had seen us struggling.

"One of them produced his mobile phone and let me use it to call the AA and my son at home to let him know we were okay. Once the AA were on their way they went off home."

But the concerned young rescuers, Peter said he only knew one of them was called Clare, returned to see if everything was all right and even offered to tow the MG to the pensioners' home in Wigan.

"They were absolutely brilliant. It gives you faith in human nature. They took all this trouble for someone they didn't know. In this day and age I think it deserves a mention."

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