WHEN Meals on Wheels was rendered immobile because of a temporary lack of chefs what has been described as a "guardian angel" stepped into the breach at the last minute.

Twice a week the meals on wheels team delivers about 50 hot meals to elderly people around Skipton. The meals are usually cooked by staff at Ashfield Residential Home but when it had a member off sick and several on holiday the home could not cope with the extra burden and reluctantly had to give up the meals on wheels contract temporarily.

As a replacement it offered frozen meals but co-ordinator Helen Hartley has always insisted on freshly cooked meals.

When it looked like there was no solution, out of the blue stepped Priscilla Gwinnet, who runs Spoilt for Choice sandwich shop on Sackville Street, and offered to make the meals until Ashfield sorted out its problems.

Meals on Wheels volunteer Enid Pyrah described Mrs Gwinnet as a "guardian angel" and said it was a big job to produce 100 extra meals a week as well as running her own business.

Mrs Gwinnet said that although the menu of shepherd's pie and meat and potato pie was a lot different from her usual customers' demands for bacon sandwiches she did not mind helping out as it was in a good cause.