A LONGSTANDING Flintshire sweet shop has made a generous donation to bring smiles to emergency service teams, health staff and shop workers.

Alan Spaven, co-owner of Spavens Sweet Shop in Mold town centre, said that since customers were no longer able to enter the shop, he had been left with a large amount of homemade fudge which may have gone uneaten.

In order not to risk it being wasted, and to spread some happiness, he gave bags full of the treats away - to the North West Ambulance Service and a local doctors surgery.

"With us closing down it was going to be thrown out if it wasn't eaten," he said.

"My son Deri works as a trainee paramedic in Chester and my daughter-in-law Naomi works at Pendre Surgery in Mold.

"I gave them a load of the fudge each to take in and cheer their colleagues up.

"Apparently it went down very well - we could only just lift the bags, there was about three kilos in each, with all different flavours.

"We have just given some to staff at Boots as well, and we have been giving some to local nurses.

"My son has a difficult job, so we thought we'd do our bit to help."

Speaking of the impact the coronavirus has had on the family business, which has been in Mold for 40 years this year, he added: "We're keeping going and I think the help we're getting from the government will see us through.

"But it is just waiting for that support now - I understand it must be a nightmare for them to sort out. "I think we're lucky. As a family business we live on the premises and we are isolating, but we are working from home as well."