Britain receiving aid from Iceland?
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From the BBC:
"People in Iceland - a country currently in desperate economic trouble - have shipped jumpers and blankets to pensioners in England this week, to keep them warm in the winter.
A container of woolies arrived in the north-east of England after an appeal on an Icelandic radio station. They were handed to local charities in Hull on Thursday.
The campaign started after two Icelanders living in Manchester wrote to the programme, saying they were appalled by the numbers of elderly people dying from cold-related illnesses in England."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7858104.stm
I thought Iceland had suffered more than us in the credit crunch? I find it slightly embarrassing that as a nation we have to receive 2nd hand clothes to keep our OAP's warm, particularly from a country supposedly in the depths of near-bankruptcy.
"People in Iceland - a country currently in desperate economic trouble - have shipped jumpers and blankets to pensioners in England this week, to keep them warm in the winter.
A container of woolies arrived in the north-east of England after an appeal on an Icelandic radio station. They were handed to local charities in Hull on Thursday.
The campaign started after two Icelanders living in Manchester wrote to the programme, saying they were appalled by the numbers of elderly people dying from cold-related illnesses in England."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7858104.stm
I thought Iceland had suffered more than us in the credit crunch? I find it slightly embarrassing that as a nation we have to receive 2nd hand clothes to keep our OAP's warm, particularly from a country supposedly in the depths of near-bankruptcy.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... - Nice gesture
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