Kindhearted kids make festive hampers for Teesdale's elderly

Pupils at Staindrop Academy helped to spread the joy of Christmas by delivering food hampers to the elderly.
More than 50 hampers were hand delivered to elderly residents in Toft Hill, Evenwood, Cockfield, Staindrop and West Auckland on Friday, December 16.
Staff and pupils at the school began collecting items  in September. Having put the boxes together last Friday morning, Toft Hill residents Roderick and Julia Macdonald were on hand to judge the best ones.
Shaun Towers, inclusion manager at Staindrop school, said: “The children have been behind it all 100 per cent. They have really enjoyed doing it.”