MUM-of-two Alice Trenchard reflected on a Merrier Christmas – thanks to Anglia Co-operative and her local newspaper, the Beccles and Bungay Journal.

Mrs Trenchard scooped a trolley dash in the newspaper’s competition in conjunction with Anglia Co-operative – a win that helped to make it an extra special Christmas for her family.

Alice, of Beccles Road, Bungay, said: “I grabbed lots of festive things. The timing was perfect and we had a lovely Christmas as a result.”

Alice ran up a ‘bill’ of £216.05 at Anglia Co-operative’s Hill Side Road East, Bungay, store and revealed: “I’m quite a regular shopper there and had worked out where to go – but the two minutes still went very, very quickly.

“The staff there were so brilliant and really encouraged me – I felt honoured to win the prize.”

Store manager Nick Barnard said: “Alice did really well. We’re so pleased it helped to make Christmas extra special for her family.”

• Two other Journal readers also won trolley dashes in the Journal’s competition – Alison Foreman, of Kemps Lane, Beccles, and Pat Miller, of Old Station Road, Halesworth.

* Alice Trenchard is pictured with her trolley dash goodies and Bungay Anglia Co-operative store deputy manager, Chris Frary.

DISABLED children and young people in the area are being given the chance to get more from life with the help of a donation from the Anglia Co-operative Community Fund (ACCF).

The fund has given £6,000 to Action for Children’s Inclusion Project Cambridgeshire.

It will be used to cover taxi fares so that local families can send their disabled child to activities and youth groups and will also help to pay for a computer with talk-type software.

The donation was part of a total of £12,000 handed to the national charity supporting the UK’s most vulnerable, disadvantaged and neglected children and young people.

ACCF chairman Douglas Boyall and executive office manager Marie D’Albret presented a cheque for £6,000 to Inclusion Project Cambridgeshire service co-ordinator Emma Shawcross at the Anglia Co-operative foodstore in Constable Road, St Ives. With them was store manager, Jonathan Quinn.

Laura Hanratta, Action for Children fundraiser for Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, said: “Receiving this donation from the Anglia Co-operative Community Fund means Inclusion Project Cambridgeshire can help disabled children and young people to participate in an activity they normally wouldn’t have the opportunity to do.”

* To find out about applying for a donation from ACCF please visit www.accf-arcs.co.uk

* Action for Children’s Emma Shawcross and Laura Hanratta are pictured receiving the ACCF cheque from Jonathan Quinn and Douglas Boyall.

DEAFBLIND children and adults across Lowestoft and the rest of the UK are getting a helping hand to live a full and active life with the help of a donation from the Anglia Co-operative Community Fund (ACCF).

The fund gave £6,000 to Sense, the deafblind charity, to help the national charity’s work supporting people with both sight and hearing impairments.

It was part of a total of £12,000 handed to the charity by ACCF. The £6,000 cheque was presented by Anglia Co-operative director Pam Baker at the Society’s foodstore in Ashburnham Way, Carlton Colville, with store manager Stephen Brown.

The cheque was received by Anila Bido, a deafblind Sense service user. Karen Elsbury, community services manager at Sense, said: “We’re delighted to be receiving this generous donation from Anglia Co-operative.

“The money will help Sense support deafblind children and adults across the UK to overcome barriers they face on a daily basis, take part in new activities and develop their individual skills.”

*To find out about applying for a donation from ACCF please visit www.accf-arcs.co.uk

* Anila Bido (right) receives the ACCF cheque from Anglia Co-operative director Pam Baker and Carlton Colville store manager, Stephen Brown.

DUSTMAN Gary Hughes really cleaned up when he won a competition in his local newspaper, the Bourne Local.

Gary, of Dowsby, scooped a two-minute dash around the Bourne Anglia Co-operative foodstore – and grabbed over £200 worth of goods when he took up his prize at the Burghley Centre store.

Father-of-two Gary, a dustman in Peterborough, joked: “My wife Tressa usually does all the shopping – but she told me to do the dash!

“The two minutes seemed to go so quick. I was under instructions to get things like washing powder, but it was a case of grabbing what I could as I went round the aisles.

“It was thoroughly enjoyable and I was really, really pleased with my final total.”

Gary almost filled two trollies with his ‘shopping’, running up a final bill of £210.48p and store manager Gavin Price said: “He did really well – that’s an impressive total for just two minutes’ shopping!”

* Gary is pictured with son Robert and store duty manager Chris Hill after the dash.