One nice moment....

[tigerlily11]

In a world full of gloom.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorks hire/7791427.stm
Better late than never. At least he bothered, even if was 40 years late.
If you borrowed �5 that long ago would you pay it back now?

[Ethel]

That is a doubly lovely story - the recipient has donated the money to charity.

[tigerlily11]

Isn't it. There hasn't been to many of them this year.

[naomi24]

Thanks for posting that Tigerlily. Isn't that nice. Sort of restores your faith in human nature.

[JockSporran]

Sometimes drug addicts and alcoholics borrow from people and many years later they recover and try to make amends to anyone they had cheated. I'm sure that's not what happened here, though.

[ummmm]

How lovely.

[BertiWooster]

Actually he has not donated all to charity .
He was on breakfast TV the other morning , and stated that he would keep � 5 .

Nice one .

[littleoldme]

What a truly astonishing story.

No, not the debt being repayed after nearly 40 years - the fact that a Yorkshireman once lent someone a fiver. ;-)