I DOUBT if you will publish this Christmas, or even this year, a more heart-warming story than that concerning little George Mordue (Echo, Dec 17).
The six-year-old, from Darlington, had only one Christmas wish - to hold a charity fair to help save children's lives in Africa and Brazil by raising money for Oxfam.
In these celebrity-obsessed times - with its grotesquely overpaid "entertainers" with their £1m wedding extravaganzas, their appalling drink-fuelled antics in and out of nightclubs, their £10,000-a-week gambling habits, their inability to see past their next Ferrari coupled with the "Wags" and their £10,000 handbags - does not the action of this young man put them all to shame?
His parents and others who supported him deserve all the thanks they receive.
Eric Gendle, Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough.
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