I WILL not be sending Christmas cards to my neighbours and friends in the Vale this year.
But I wish them all a happy Christmas and New Year.
The money I will save goes to the Penarth Lifeboat Appeal. I am an honorary life governor of the RNLI.
Buddy Thompson
Penarth
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