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Toni Inglis

Hundreds attend emotional festive light-switch on in memory of Kilmarnock baby

A Kilmarnock couple has been overwhelmed by all of the support from the community, after an estimated 200 showed up to their home Christmas light switch-on show, in memory of tragic baby Joey Forte.

Jordan Buckland, 22, and Derrie McAlpine, 23, welcomed a massive crowd at their annual Christmas light switch-on at the weekend, in aid of Children's Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) after a grueling two weeks stringing up 60 unique illuminations.

The pair chose the charity after they helped care for Jordan's baby cousin Joey who passed away aged just 18 months in 2015 after being diagnosed with Krabbe disease, an extremely rare degenerative disorder of the nervous system.

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