An elderly man who had spent the last 17 Christmases alone. A heartbroken girlfriend dumped on Christmas eve and with nowhere else to go. A glamorous woman of Wimbledon Village, in furs and pearls, arriving with smoked salmon, solo.
These are among scores of moving tales from the Alexandra, a Wimbledon pub that has put on a free Christmas dinner for the past decade in a bid to tackle loneliness.
