A local mobile vet service is set to change animal healthcare in 2024, offering an unparalleled callout service to pet owners and their furry friends around Greater Manchester and Cheshire.
Veterinarian Luke Ainsworth and his pioneering new company, My Visit Vet, are aiming to deliver the very best and most compassionate pet healthcare to locals in the comfort of their own home, with a new and improved approach to the mobile vet service.
Having assembled a small but heavily-quailified staff with well over two decades of experience combined, as well a USP that no other veterinary practice in the region can offer, we couldn’t help but shout about this bloke and the crucial service he is bringing to the people of Manchester and beyond.
We’ll happily celebrate anyone who dedicates their lives to looking after our good boys and girls.
If you’ve been looking for a mobile vet service around Greater Manchester/Cheshire, look no further. (Credit: Supplied)
Now, while many of you might be rightly pointing out that mobile vets and home visits have existed for a long while now and wondering what exactly it is that Luke and his team do that sets them apart, the answer is quite simply this: pretty much everything.
After transforming a standard Fiat Ducato van into a fully operational veterinary surgery, complete with lab equipment, an ultrasound machine, anaesthesia and even x-ray capabilities, this is the most extensive mobile vet service you’ll find anywhere in the region.
These lot do more than just knock on your door for a quick check-up — but, to be fair, they do that too.
It cost the 20-year vet (pun intended) a whopping £30,000 to get his mobile vet van up to very highest standards and since first rolling out on to the roads back in August, they haven’t looked back.
This isn’t just a man in a van — they’ve built the full set-up.
Having worked both in UK and over in Australia since 2005, as well as witnessing first-hand the stress and various difficulties that can result from a trip to the vets, especially during the pandemic, he observed a massive increase in the demand for home visits.
But, more importantly, the numbers we really care about are that My Visit Vet can offer 90% of the services available at traditional practices, from simple consultations and vaccinations to operations and even compassionate end of life care, which so many owners hope to carry out at home.
One of Luke’s recent success stories is female cat Madin, who would previously become so distressed about going to the vets that she’d vomit. Thanks to his home visit, though, this paw-ly patient has been able to calmly receive her monthly arthritis injections in the comfort of her own home.
With the help Veterinary Nurse Mel Evans and Receptionist Amy Lee, Luke has been out on the road for the past few months and slowly building a steady but solid cient base around Greater Manchester and Cheshire from their home base in Chorlton.
Better still, now they’re into a ryhtmn and the word is out, My Visit Vet will be offering their full range of services from this month and you can check out their website to find out more information HERE.
For extra peace of mind, My Visit Vet are offering the out of hours service, Vidivet, free of charge to clients. Via the animal healthcare app, pet owners can have access to a vet at any time of day or night.
So if you have a pet that isn’t so keen on a trip to the vets, why not swap things around and have the vet come to them?
Catchment area.The My Visit Vet mobile service will be fully operational around selected areas of Manchester and Cheshire from January onwards.
Bury FC offering free tickets to Morecambe fans amid ongoing club crisis
Danny Jones
Bury FC are offering free tickets to travelling Morecambe fans free tickets to an upcoming match in a show of solidarity for the fellow North West football club amid their ongoing crisis.
For anyone unaware of the situation in the Lancashire town, Morecambe FC could soon be no more after being suspended from the National League as they face further financial uncertainty.
At present, controversial owners Bond Group Investments LTD, led by businessman Jason Whittingham, have failed to sell the struggling club despite multiple deadlines, leaving the vital community sporting organisation on the precipice of complete collapse.
While the seaside team currently have no fixtures to look forward to with the 25/26 season now underway for various parts of the football pyramid, the Greater Manchester outfit, which only recently survived similarly their own precarious circumstances, has offered Morecambe fans free admission.
Although this is a very temporary alternative, with complimentary tickets being offered for Bury’s Northern Premier League West season home opener against Newcastle Town, it is a touching show of support from regional counterparts who know all too well the fear and pain of potential dissolution.
Sharing a post on their official website and social media along with the message, “We’ve been where you are. We stand with you.”, The Shakers have stated that anyone who turns up at Gigg Lane for the game this Saturday, 9 August, with their season ticket or wearing a Morecambe badge can enter for free.
It was only back in 2019 that Bury themselves were expelled from the football league after 125 years as a result of their unpaid debts. It’s fair to say that the state of affairs at Morecambe looks strikingly familiar.
Plenty of clubs have been placed into administration and hit with suspensions over the years, and Bury did go on to reunite their AFC phoenix club back in May 2023, but unfortunately, nothing is ever certain given how money-driven modern football is.
To add more context, Whittingham has been registered as the director of 25 companies during his career, but it’s important to add that a staggering total of 18 have been dissolved (either forcibly or voluntarily), put into administration, liquidated, or put into receivership – the stage before full liquidation.
It remains to be seen how many travelling Shrimps supporters will make the nearly 50-mile journey to 0161 for the game, but Bury’s classy gesture has nevertheless been met with plenty of praise.
For now, it has been reported that Morecambe have anywhere between the end of the week and 20 August – when the National League meets to discuss the matter again – to balance books and/or discover their fate.
The beautiful game belongs to everyone; people of all regions and walks of life, from the grassroots all the way up to the Premier League, and as a footy-obsessed part of the world, we all know all too well how important it is to have these sporting and crucially social outlets in local areas.
Sending all our support to all those at Morecambe FC, and we hope to see these dire straits resolved with the right outcome sooner rather than later.
Bury offering free tickets to Morecambe fans is touching, but when are clubs going to get better protection from questionable ownership?
Rochdale AFC have retired late club legend Joe Thompson’s shirt number
Danny Jones
Greater Manchester club Rochdale AFC have officially retired the number 15 shirt in memory of late midfielder Joe Thompson.
The retired player turned pundit and charity champion, who had to battle three different bouts of cancer, died earlier this year following his final diagnosis of stage four lymphoma.
Sadly passing away at the age of just 36 on 18 April 2025, the Bath-born footballer – who built his life and career here in the North West – was recently honoured with a minute’s silence and charity match between Rochdale and his boyhood club Man United’s under-21s youth side.
Penning an official statement on their website, The Dale wrote: “With the blessing of Joe’s family, we can confirm that First Team squad number 15, the shirt Joe wore with pride during his time at the Club, will be retired in his memory.
“Joe made over 200 appearances across three stints for Dale and became synonymous with the number 15 in his time with us.”
Thompson tragically left behind two kids, Thailula-Lily and Athena Rae, along with his wife, Chantelle, who also helped raise thousands in vital funds for cancer research and treatment here in the UK during his multiple battles.
Rochdale go on to add: “The retirement of Joe’s former squad number is recognition of his impact, not just as a talented football player, but as an incredible person who had a positive impact on everyone who has been touched by his story.
“This is just the second time in our history that a shirt number has been retired, after the number 55 was retired in memory of young Dale fan Joshua McCormack in 2016, who also sadly lost his life to cancer.”
The ex-Man United youth, Rochdale servant and one-time Bury player sadly had to retire due to his recurring illness back in 2019.
His story, however sad, was an inspiring one.
Safe to say that both his final send-off as a professional and tribute match last week were equally emotional days, with the latter ending in a 1-1 draw and an inaugural trophy lifted in his name, with the Red Devils having recently named a new club award after him too.
The United academy graduate has raised more than £20,000 for charity by joining a walk with hundreds of fans, friends and ex-teammates from Old Trafford to Rochdale back in October last year and remained an influential fundraising figure until the very end.
His number may have been retired, but the memory and impact of Joe Thompson live on forever. You can still donate to his cause and pay your respects via the Joey T Foundation HERE.
Rest in peace, Joe.
💙 The Legacy of Joe Thompson Lives On 🙌
Last week we were proud to support the Team Thompson appeal and now the journey continues.💙
Plans are now in motion to create the Joey T Foundation, honouring Joe’s bravery and continuing his legacy by helping others facing cancer. 💪 pic.twitter.com/VZO7Kgq3PP
— Rochdale AFC Community Trust (@RAFCCommunity) August 5, 2025
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