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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Aaliyah Rugg

Schoolgirl worried 'Santa won't come' makes request to mum

A schoolgirl who was so worried that "Santa wouldn't come" to the ill children in hospital, decided to take action.

When Heidi Smith was visiting her cousin Sadie at Alder Hey's oncology ward, she suddenly wondered how the sick children there would experience Christmas and whether Father Christmas knew "how to get to the hospital". Mum Selina, from Huyton, said the nine-year-old was fretting that much, she decided to take action herself.

Now, the Malvern Primary student is asking for donations to "bring Christmas to them". Selina said: "Heidi had seen all the poorly children going through chemotherapy and she was so worried that Santa wouldn't know his way to the hospital.

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