In reply to UKC News:
As Franco's major sponsor I perhaps should provide some background information.
I was both impressed and horrified that Franco would go winter climbing dressed only in threadbare tracksters and cotton T shirt. Was it an extension of the North Eastern males reputation for going out drinking year round in a T shirt or merely an impoverished student. Anyway some unused fleeces ( which were an awkward size between the Graham boys and petite Graham ladies ) were bestowed to the grateful FC at the insistence of the missus who I think had fallen for his youthful latin charm.