Thanks are from Afghanistan

RAF personnel are delighted with the festive packages posted to them by generous Biggleswade Chronicle readers.

You donated enough practical goods and treats as part of the Chronicle’s Operation Goodwill to send 200 welfare packages to our troops in Afghanistan. Some of the men and women who received packages have now written back to Ken Lynch, the project co-ordinator.

Lewis Buckley, a corporal in the RAF Police, expressed his thanks for the “fantastic” presents. He wrote: “Aside from the incredibly useful and thoughtful items we were all happy that people at home appreciate what we are doing out here.

“The RAF Police are nearly two months into our six and a half month tour in Afghanistan. We are based in Camp Bastion in Helmand province.”

Corporal Alex Peck from the RAF Police wrote: “I am one person of a three man team working at Kandahar Air Base. I recently took delivery of a welfare box with useful and essential items that I have shared with the other two members of my team.

“It is nice to receive parcels from people like yourself.”

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