RESTAURANT partner Tony Pepper is on the move this week as part of an aid trip to Romania.

Mr Pepper, a partner in Pepper's Restaurant in Nantwich, is heading off to central Romania on Friday with a branch of Relief for Romania where the help is directed to psychiatric hospitals.

When the original Relief for Romania was set up a group of psychiatric nurses discovered that the psychiatric hospitals in the country were suffering from problems in the same way as the orphanages.

As a result they began gathering clothes, toiletries and other items with the aim of helping the patients.

The hospital Mr Pepper is heading out to has 400 patients, both men and women, of whom 80 per cent are left locked up for 24 hours a day in poor conditions.

Mr Pepper will be there for about three weeks, delivering the goods and also carrying out some maintenance work at the hospital and occupational therapy with the patients.

"I have been overwhelmed by the response we have had and would like to thank everyone in Nantwich and the surrounding areas," he said.

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