Members of Ross Rotary Club will be in the Market Place on Thursday, October 24th selling purple crocus corms as part of the Rotary campaign to end polio.

Purple has become a symbolic colour in the fight against polio, inspired by the colour of the dye painted on the little finger of a child to signify they have received a potentially life-saving polio vaccine.

Ross-on-Wye Rotary Club members will be planting 5,000 purple crocus corms in the garden at Ross Community Hospital which they hope will be a reminder each spring of the fight for a polio free world.

They will also be offering to varnish people’s little finger nails for £1 as paying for a ‘purple varnished Pinkie’ will save five children from polio.