A HEARTBROKEN daughter has thanked a man who tried to save her father's life after he collapsed in a Hoyland bakery and later died.
George Mason, 69, had a fall in Staniforth's and severely banged his head on the floor tiles last Tuesday.
Shocked staff in Staniforth's said a man - who they later found out was successful artist David Walker Barker - came forward to help Mr Mason during the incident and desperately tried to revive him with CPR.
Mr Walker Barker, 67, a painter and arts lecturer who has a studio in St Helen's Street, Elsecar, insisted he was 'no hero'. "I did a basic first aid course when I was working at a university and tried my best to use it to help Mr Mason," he said.
** The full story is in the Barnsley Chronicle, dated March 13. **
