Friday, November 17, 2006

Costly Christmas present

Jersey , Channel Islands - MULTI-MILLIONAIRE David Kirch is playing Santa Claus and giving a £100 early Christmas present to every Islander aged 70 or above.

From Monday, anyone aged 70-plus can go to his or her parish hall to claim vouchers worth £100 to spend at any Checkers, Benests, Safeway or M & S store.

With more than 9,000 people aged 70 or more, the giveaway is worth about £1m.

Mr Kirch turned 70 in July and wanted to mark his 'three scores years and ten' in a different way. 'At first I guessed that there would be about 3,000 of us and was very surprised to find out that instead there are more than three times that number - one in ten of the population,' he said.

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