The public is being invited to a vigil in Swinton tonight at 5.45pm for Labour MP Jo Cox who was killed on Thursday.
The vigil is being held at St Peter’s Church on Chorley Road, near Swinton town hall.
A short service will be followed by the opening of a Book of Condolence for people to leave their messages of remembrance.
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A fund set up in the wake of Jo Cox’s death today passed £1 million in donations.
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The total, which currently stands at £1,081,291 will be split between three charities: Hope not Hate, the Royal Voluntary Service, the White Helmets, a volunteer civil defense organization in Syria.
The Batley and Spen MP was killed on Thursday in Birstall, West Yorkshire, a village in her home town of Batley.
The 41-year old was on her way to her constituency surgery when she was shot and stabbed multiple times.
She later died in Leeds General Infirmary.
A 77-year-old man, Bernard Kenny, was stabbed in the stomach while trying to prevent her death.
Police have arrested and charged 52-year-old far-right sympathiser Thomas Mair with possession of a firearm, grievous bodily harm, and murder.
In the wake of her death husband Brendan Cox said: “Jo believed in a better world and she fought for it every day of her life with an energy, and a zest for life that would exhaust most people.
“She would have wanted two things above all else to happen now, one that our precious children are bathed in love and two, that we all unite to fight against the hatred that killed her.”
Public events are also planned across the country on Wednesday for what would have been Jo Cox’s 42nd birthday.
In Manchester, campaigners are to gather at Piccadilly Gardens from 4pm under the #MoreInCommon banner.
Similar gatherings will take place at the same time in New York, London, Sydney, Brussels, Paris, Edinburgh, Beirut and Batley.
Organisers say: “Jo believed that there is more that unites us than divides us, and she was killed for those beliefs. She believed in a love that is fierce, brave and humble. Her death has devastated a family, and attacked the ideals that we as a nation most cherish.
“But we will not be divided. We will rise up together to carry Jo’s message forward. We will meet hate with love.”
Main image (composite): St Peter’s Church, Swinton, by Eddie Smith/Jo Cox, Wikipedia
