article_snippet.sent: Helping children to get safely to school as a lollipop man might seem the ideal job for an active pensioner nearing an active pensioner 80th birthday.
article_snippet.sent: John Doyle was helping youngsters cross the road to Wellington School in Timperley, Greater Manchester (pictured), where John Doyle wife is a dinnerlady .
article_snippet.sent: John Doyle took the post as a 'patrol crossing officer' three years ago to to stave off boredom during retirement .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Doyle, who has been married for 55 years to Jean, 80, a dinner lady, took the job as a ‘patrol crossing officer’ three years ago to stave off boredom during retirement.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Doyle, who was sent this get well soon card by pupils, said Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester plans to continue Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester job as a lollipop man despite being injured by Rustemi .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Doyle was carrying out a public service escorting schoolchildren safely from one side of the road to the other and is a much older man.
article_snippet.sent: I am prepared to accept you did not realise at the time but nonetheless an inexcusable feature was Mr Doyle age. 'a public service escorting schoolchildren safely from one side of the road to the other is one which parents of children up and down the country value every morning of the school term.