A campaign to bring Christmas joy to cash-strapped Perthshire families is launching into action extra early this year, before we have even got to Hallowe’en.
Worrying predictions about energy costs have put anxiety and hesitation into the minds of parents everywhere as they think how to keep everybody happy this festive season.
In previous years Cheryl Fleming (45) has begun her Christmas Toy Operation Perth after the pumpkins have had their day, but with a cost-of-living crisis threatening to make this Christmas memorable for the wrong reasons, the Perth mum has got organised a month-and-a-half earlier that normal.
The kind-hearted mother is preparing to jump out of an aeroplane at Errol to get the ball rolling and to hook out some glam gear for a charity ‘90s-themed disco.
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