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The winner of the M.E.N.’s Netto trolley dash has donated his haul of free food to a local food bank.

Gary Miller entered our competition after collecting ‘time tokens’ in the paper. When his name was randomly selected from those who entered, each of the tokens he collected counted for 10 seconds of speedy trolley dashing around the new Heaton Park store .

In total he was given three minutes.

Mr Miller, 56, said: “I knew when I entered I was going to donate most of it to Wythenshawe food bank but I didn’t tell them until after I had won.

“They were really pleased because they always need it.”

Gary, who works in the freight terminal at Manchester Airport, is a part-time Church of England Minister. He is part of the Wythenshawe Anglican Team which consists of five churches: William Temple, Wythenshawe, St Luke’s, Benchill, St Martin with St Francis, Wythenshawe, St Richard of Chichester, Wythenshawe (Peel Hall) and St Michael, Lawton Moor. Each church collects donations for a Wythenshawe food bank.

Gary, who is from Crossacres, Wythenshawe, has now taken his sizeable donation to the food bank, after managing to fill one and a half trolleys with £368.35 worth of shopping.

He said: “It goes so fast. The staff were fantastic and the manager kept shouting out when a minute had passed. You can only take certain items to a food bank but I sort of lost my head at first and grabbed a few joints of meat.

“But I managed to get lots of tins and pasta, things the food bank can really use.”

But it was not just the food bank who benefited from Gary’s generosity. He added: “I got some electrical goods, a Dolce Gusto coffee maker for my wife Wendy, speakers for my son Jordan, a camera for my daughter, Catherine, and some headphones for myself. Oh and some beers for the lads at work!”

Malene Heby, Manager of Netto’s Heaton Park Store congratulated Gary saying: ”We never imagined that our winner would be entering to support charity. It’s fantastic that because of Gary’s big heart lots of people will benefit from his trolley dash.

"Inspired by his generosity we are going to donate another trolley load of tins to help the homeless people he supports.

"I’m pleased that he got a couple of things for himself too. He really deserves them for being so generous.”