Clitheroe man Alfie Cookson offering odd jobs to help people in his town

Paul Crone went to meet Alfie 'Odd Job Boy' Cookson in Clitheroe

A 24-year-old man from Lancashire who left school with no qualifications has ditched his day job, to help the local community.

Alfie Cookson, known as Alfie Odd Job on social media, is always on the look out for odd jobs around his home town of Clitheroe, to help out residents.

Alfie has a voracious appetite to keep Clitheroe looking spick and span, but he says his first ever task didn't go well.

Alfie said: "My first odd job was power washing someone's garden. A stray dog came running past me and I ended up chasing it."Since then, Alfie has become a master of all trades.

He spends his days cleaning road signs, scrubbing telephone boxes and even sprays circles around potholes to alert the council to fill them in.

Alfie's outlook on life is simple.

He said: "I would say Clitheroe is the best town in the world. I know I sound biased because I am from here, but the heart of it, the people here.

"There is no where like it. You could go far and wide and still not find what you have here."

"The thing about me is that I am not scared about anything...how I look or what people think of me. I am just doing this because it makes me happy. I just take each day as it comes."

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