RESIDENTS will be able to rummage in the Royal Mail's sorting office, Haydock Street, to help send children on an adventure holiday.

The charity We Help Others is organising the sale on December 7 to provide special needs pupils from Penkford Technology School, Newton, with an orienteering holiday on the Yorkshire Moors.

WHO spokesman Albert Hadfield said: "Both Father Christmas and Postman Pat will be at the event. The cost to send the pupils is around £3,000 and the money from the sale will go towards this." The sale starts at 10am.

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