IN three weeks, the mobile blood unit will be making another two-week visit to Hamilton, creating a convenient local opportunity for donors to give blood, rather than travelling to Warrnambool or even Ballarat or Geelong.

Australian Red Cross Lifeblood are especially calling for O-positive and O-negative donors but have also been reminding UK ex-pats and Australians who spent time in the UK that the ‘mad cow’ ban was lifted 12 months ago.