Chepstow department store Herbert Lewis has donated £225 to Chepstow and District Rotary Club. Store manager Dee Griffith and Rotarians have decided to add the amount into the Rotary 'End Polio Now' fund – the global campaign to eradicate polio completely from the whole world. This donation will be trebled in value by Rotary International's partner in this campaign, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. People of a certain age will still remember the fear caused by the polio epidemics of the early 1950s, when this infectious viral disease sickened and paralysed as many as 8,000 children in the UK each year. However, in January this year, India completed three full years without a new case of polio and so now all 11 countries in south east Asia are polio-free.