Strangers raise more than £20,000 for retired miner, 94, after his home was ransacked by burglars
A retired miner whose home was ransacked by burglars four days before Christmas has been left overwhelmed after strangers raised more than £20,000 for him. Ted Green, 94, a former pitman and member of the Home Guard in the Second World War, was burgled on Tuesday night. Mr Green, from Horden, County Durham, was pictured the next day sitting amid the upheaval caused by the thieves. An online appeal to raise cash and save his Christmas was then given a huge boost when Love Island star Molly-May Hague and Geordie Shore's Holly Hagan shared Mr Green's plight with their millions of followers ...
Source: dailymail.co.uk