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Give someone a special Christmas; PAMPER WITH A HAMPER: Launch of our super festive campaign.


Byline: Tina Junday

CHRISTMAS is coming "Christmas Is Coming" is a nursery rhyme and Christmas carol (frequently sung as a round) with lyrics as follows:

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat
Please put a penny in the old man's hat
 - and the Coventry Telegraph and the Heart of England Co-op have joined forces so you can make it extra-special for someone deserving.

For the sixth year, the Pamper pam·per  
tr.v. pam·pered, pam·per·ing, pam·pers
1. To treat with excessive indulgence: pampered their child.

2.
 with a Hamper Christmas campaign will be helping to spread some festive cheer - with the help of delivery giants TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene.
TNT
 in full trinitrotoluene

Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene.
.

We have 180 Christmas hampers to give away to people over the age of 65, packed with goodies good·y 1   Informal
interj.
Used to express delight.

n. also good·ie pl. good·ies
Something attractive or delectable, especially something sweet to eat.
 from the Co-op Foodcentres and Lateshops, ranging from coffee and biscuits to festive favourites like Christmas pudding. The contents will include Fairtrade products and leading brands.

Darren Parkin parkin
Noun

Brit a moist spicy ginger cake usually containing oatmeal [origin unknown]
, the new editor of the Telegraph, said: "Pamper with a Hamper can make Christmas that little bit more special for loved ones loved ones nplseres mpl queridos

loved ones nplproches mpl et amis chers

loved ones love npl
, friends and neighbours."

And Ali Kurji, chief executive of the Heart of England Cooperative Society cooperative society
Noun

a commercial enterprise owned and run by customers or workers, in which the profits are shared among the members
, added: "Once again we are delighted to partner the Telegraph with the Pamper with a Hamper campaign through SUPPORT ... Darren Parkin our Helping Hearts Award scheme whereby all profits from the sale of tobacco and cigarettes are distributed back into the community."

Pamper with a Hamper is one of 2,500 initiatives supported by Helping Hearts Award scheme and over pounds 500,000 pledged since its launch.

The Heart of England Co-op is the region's largest independent retailer in the Coventry, Warwickshire and south Leicestershire area.

Once again the scheme is being supported by TNT. With its UK headquarters based in Atherstone, it's Britain's leading business-to-business express deliverer.

It employs 1,800 people in Warwickshire, including more than 100 at its Nuneaton depot on the Attleborough Fields Industrial Estate. Established in the UK in 1978, the company has developed its dominant position in the timesensitive express delivery market through organic growth and, with an annual turnover in excess of pounds 750 million, it employs 10,600 people in the UK and Ireland.

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HEARTY HAMPER ... Heart of England Co-operative Society chief executive Ali Kurji (left) with staff at the Earlsdon branch (left-right) Sue Davis, Helen Magee, Maria Geraghty, Barbara Redpath, Jo Dyke
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Publication:Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Date:Nov 2, 2009
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