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2nd August

Wartime love letters found in curtains that had been donated to charity shop

Charity shop workers were amazed when a 70-year-old love letter to a prisoner of war in Thailand dropped out of a set of donated curtains.

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1st August

Family fun day raises £285 for LOROS

CML's annual Family Fun Day thanked its employees for their continued dedication and support to the business, and raise £285 from ticket sales for Leicester Forest East RFC and their nominated charity, LOROS.

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31st July

Family of WWII Prisoner of War traced following appeal by LOROS Hospice

The son of William Gower, a Prisoner of War from WWII, known as Billy in a series of love letters recently uncovered in a LOROS Hospice charity shop, has come forward to claim the correspondence.

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27th July

WWII Prisoner of War letters discovered in LOROS Hospice shop

A volunteer from the charity shop in Glenfield, Leicester, uncovered an envelope containing World War Two letters sent to a prisoner of war (POW) held in Thailand.

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26th July

‘Into the Wild’ wilderness survivors build creature comforts and raise valuable funds for LOROS Hospice

Into the Wild, a fundraising challenge which is in its second year, dropped off a total of 14 explorers at an undisclosed location over the weekend.

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24th July

Tom Neale from Uptonsteel says the ‘incredible support my dad received at LOROS Hospice’ inspired him to back the Forget Me Not Campaign

Tom Neale is the Operations Manager of Uptonsteel in Markfield, and alongside his team, the company have sponsored the Forget Me Not Campaign for LOROS Hospice.

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5th July

Leicester City Legend, Alan Birchenall plants LOROS Hospice Forget Me Not in the Leicester City Football Club Remembrance Garden

LOROS Hospice Patron Alan Birchenall (Birch) MBE planted a Forget Me Not flower at the Leicester City Remembrance Garden as part of the LOROS Hospice Forget Me Not flower appeal.

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5th July

Snooker's Mark Selby and Leicester City legend Alan Birchenall open unique display for Loros in Leicester's Jubilee Square

Sportsmen Mark Selby and Alan Birchenall cut the ribbon to open a display of flowers to mark those who have died at city hospice LOROS

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