THE First Liphook Scouts have successfully delivered the Christmas mail throughout the parish again this year. More than 3,000 letters were posted and more than £600 raised for the Scout funds. To ensure safe delivery of the mail, a parent accompanied each 'Scout postman'.
This was the first year that the Network Scouts have run the Christmas post scheme. Group Scout Leader Bryan Jackson congratulated them on a job well done, thanking them for their efforts, commending network co-ordinator Mark Boosey for all his work, and paid a tribute to assistant group Scout leader Grahame Polley, who with his wife Shirley, ran the post for many previous years.
Mark Boosey and his team thanked all the volunteer sorters and postmen and ladies, and also the local shops which supported the Christmas Scout Post by displaying post boxes around the village, namely Countrywide Stores, Gables News, Hiscock's Pet Supplies, Route 6, The Deers Hut, The Co-op, Sainsbury's, the Millennium Centre, and for the first time this year, Passfield Stores.
The new set of seven stamps, drawn by Clemency Bray, have proved very popular with collectors, and further sales of sheets are expected to boost the total collected so far.