Two little girls with big hearts

TWo schoolgirls raising funds for the hospice that had cared for their grandparents were distraught when their all- day garden sale netted just £4.

Nine- year- old cousins Elouise o’Loughlin and Abbie Waters put their takings through Trinity Hospice Charity Shop’s door in Blackpool with a letter apologising that ‘they didn’t succeed very well’.

So sweet was the note, the manager of the shop launched an online funding page for them which has raised more than £600 for the hospice.

Those little girls’ grandparents would have been very proud. SoMe anorak tried to work out who is the most thriftily dressed member of the royal Family. the Queen, Princess anne, Charles, Camilla, William and Kate all got honourable mentions for recycling and wearing favourite clothes year after year. No mention yet of that wear-it-once couture princess, Meghan. I Do so wish I could put a filter on my computer to screen out every Mother’s Day email. It’s a tough time for those of us who recently lost our mums — no one to send that card and flowers to, no one to call next Sunday. AFTER the death of Love Island’s Mike Thalassitis, the show’s producers were desperate to protect their hit franchise and promised post-production therapy sessions for all contestants. Very sensible. But don’t the 85,000 wannabes who bafflingly applied for the last series, in the knowledge they’d be pimped, humiliated and encouraged to have sex live on the television show, need therapy, too?