A relatively 'normal' Christmas follows an extraordinary year - Merry Christmas from the Manchester Evening News
For many of us this is the first chance of a proper Christmas in years, after a pandemic which kept us apart.
Today, as we celebrate this special time and its message of hope and peace, our thoughts turn to them, and all those affected by poverty, isolation, war and ill health. And we celebrate those who dedicate their time to helping others, including all those who are working today to keep essential services going.We lost the Queen, her long life of service commemorated with remarkable scenes of mourning, so it won’t be her message we hear this Christmas, but that of her son, King Charles.
The hope, of both campaigns, is that from the darkness something positive will spring - something lasting that will save other lives. We love this charity because they treat every client with the dignity and respect we all deserve. They deliver food in unmarked vans to maintain privacy, and work to help people to move out of poverty.
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