A Girlguiding leader who is celebrating 60 years of volunteering has also been awarded with a British Empire Medal in the same year. Pat Pinnington, who first set up the 9th King’s Lynn Guides group in 1970, was handed the award as part of this year’s King’s Birthday Honours. The 77-year-old from Lynn started her Girlguiding journey at the age of 12 when she lived in Edmonton, North London. By the time she was 15, Pat asked her Guide captain if she could help run evenings and later joined the cadets’ group, now known as young leaders. She left the unit at 16 and came back soon after to train a…