CARING youngsters have given their backing to one of the country's most popular charity appeals.
Pupils at St Margaret's Church of England Primary School, Nevilles Cross, are sending hundreds of used stamps to the Blue Peter appeal, which this year is raising money to buy medical supplies for people in remote areas of the Andes, Peru.
The pupils, backed by family and friends, filled 16 sacks with old envelopes and spent the afternoon removing the stamps from them. School head Dianne Mowbray-Pape said: "We had an afternoon where the children just cut off the stamps. They were singing carols while they did it and they had a whale of a time.
"It is nice for the children to think about other people, especially at this time of the year.''
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