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Self-confessed trainer fanatic Lance Birchall will appear on television tonight after his caring crusade to provide homeless people with footwear has caught national attention.
The 25-year-old, of Fenton, previously featured on Stoke-on-Trent Live, where he revealed how the Soles of Stoke project involved restoring old, donated shoes, which were then handed to homeless hostels.
London - A man is giving unwanted trainers a new lease of life and donating them to people in need. Lance Birchall, from Stoke-on-Trent, restores unloved trainers but said some were still being needlessly binned. He decided to take on pairs for free rather than seeing them thrown away and will donate them to homeless people in the city.
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