[Sir Trev]

My wife and I used to ride for SERV - gave up every other Saturday night for over two years, sitting in an airless room behind a sports centre in New Maldon. As we did weekends the call outs were thin and we'd often get no calls at all. Mainly moving samples from the outlying hospitals to the central path lab.

This was twenty years ago and the policy of blue lights at the time was not at all. A bike would be decked out for promotional stand work but I believe the lights were removed before it was riden on the road. We were always told the blood service in the area was M-F day time only but I never thought to check, and it may well be different now as mentioned above or may have varied by region at the time.

The odd runs for whole blood from Tooting broke up the monotony. The look of relief once as a nurse whipped the box out of my hand and scurried off through the packed A&E one bonfire night was quite memorable and was a good feeling.