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Toni Lennox

Kilmarnock care home residents seeking pen pals as big-hearted primary school backs initiative

A Kilmarnock care home is seeking pen pals made of the write stuff for their residents.

Residents of Springhill Nursing Home, based in the town's Portland Road, are reaching out to the Ayrshire community in a bid to connect with folk happy to put pen to paper.

And the staff are hopeful, now that Covid restrictions in care homes are easing, pen pals will visit with the resident they have been writing to one day.

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