Bar staff broke down in tears after children wrote letters to Santa asking for “clean clothes” while another simply said they’d like “anything”. Landlords of The Percy Arms invited families to write their festive wishes on tags and hang them on the pub’s Christmas tree.
In a stark reminder of the struggles many are going through, staff were stunned by some of the things they read. One 15-year-old girl wrote: “A present for my dad. He’s sad since my mum died and not in a good place.”
An eight-year-old girl wrote: “Clean clothes, please. Mine are dirty". A note a six-year-old girl wrote, said: "Something to make with mammy."
