FATHER Christmas will be getting a huge sack of letters from the Hungry Horse pub in Yarnbook.

Landlady Julie Fernandes has made a post box for children to post their Christmas letters.

Mrs Fernandes said: "Christmas is geared around children. The pub is very children-orientated and I wanted to do something for them."

She and her husband, Carlos, have been running the Hungry Horse for the past three years.

They have two children, Bruno, eight, and three-year-old James.

"They are getting excited now. James is putting everything into the post box, even our own Christmas cards."

She is also taking bookings for a children's party being organised for December 28, when Father Christmas himself is expected to put in an appearance.

Adults are not being left out for the last six months they have been invited to put their spare change into an empty beer barrel and to guess how much will have been collected by January.

The winner will get a holiday for two somewhere in Europe and the money raised will go to the North Bradley Park Action Group.