Coats, nappies and underwear among the most desired items at donation points across the country
Wayne Harrison was on a sunlounger in Malta last week when he received an SOS. Afghan refugees were arriving imminently in Manchester with little more than the shirts on their backs: could he coordinate an operation to clothe them all in their quarantine hotels?
“I spent the last three days of my holiday by the pool on the phone trying to get this sorted,” he said, surveying the warehouse in Stockport rapidly filling up with bin bags of donations on Monday.
