KIND-HEARTED Lancashire Evening Telegraph readers rallied round a war veteran who was living in a cold flat in Blackburn with no furniture and without a kettle.
George Butterworth, 70, was sleeping on bare floorboards and could not get any assistance from the DHSS because he had an Army pension. He said he was "staggered" by the offers of furniture he had received.
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