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Good afternoon, Martin
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It's a very merry veterans' Christmas party here. They've been doing games
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I've been getting involved as well, wrapping each other up in wrapping paper
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All in the name of having good fun for Christmas. Here are some of the gifts now that are going to be collected
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They're going to the charity Homeless Help for Veterans, helping veterans in need that otherwise might not get a gift this Christmas
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I'm joined now by Dave Leach, a veteran and also the mayor for Barnsley
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Just tell us why you're supporting this charity and why you think it's so important
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Well, throughout the country there's veterans on the streets. Veterans won't get a Christmas present or any up at all
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so this is big for us to get these out to them this Christmas
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Why do you think it is so important that we respect and support our veteran community
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I know this care home does a lot for veterans. This care home is absolutely fantastic at supporting veterans
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in-house and all of us here today. But veterans come out of forces with nothing
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and a lot of them end up on streets. So supporting them and Rachel here does a fantastic job doing it So thank you Definitely and it been so lovely as well hasn it this afternoon we had a right laugh yeah as you can see we tried but we didn get top half done but yeah it been really good
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definitely and you've lost at your game but I mean it might have been really it's the taking part that counts
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and it's not just this year is it that you come out and help at the care home, it's all year round
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it's all year round yeah we've done a lot of things at the care home and thanks to
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Rachel we're all included nobody's left out, everybody invited it's really good and it's been the Christmas jumper competition as well
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I just want to show you some people here and some of the the jumpers that
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they've got on Merry Christmas everyone fantastic you'll have to see Martin
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which one you think is best I quite like this gentleman's over here if you can
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just read his there Michael Moore gets the award for me but everybody can make
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up their own mind. It's fantastic here at Dean Gate Care Home. Very Merry Christmas
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to everyone and the veterans here certainly supporting what's going on for this charity here
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Anna Riley, it's absolutely magnificent. Please make sure we give my regards to everybody there. What a truly superb event. Anna, go the extra mile there. You're wrapping yourself
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up as a Christmas present. Thank you very, very much
