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Selfless benefits mum who only has one pair of shoes defends blowing £2K on Christmas presents for her six kids Claire Young, a mother of six from England says she spends £2,000 on Christmas presents for her children even though she's on benefits and believes they are entitled to have luxurious gifts.  "The average child gets £100 of gifts at Christmas, but Claire Young spends around £330 on each of her six children." 'I start in January and save all the year through,' she explained. 'Put £50 in a pot every week and at the end of November I have a nice amount to go and buy Christmas presents.' 'The mum explained she buys 66 presents - 11 for each child - but has been criticised for being 'over the top'. She said: 'Christmas is only once a year that’s how I see it and me and my partner don’t get each other anything it’s all about the kids.' She says she doesn't work because she has M E which is a chronic fatigue sy...

Rapper, 22, travels 1,000 miles to meet 81-year-old woman he befriended playing online word game A young rapper travelled more than 1,000 miles to meet a pensioner he befriended while playing a word game online. Spencer Sleyon, who lives in Harlem, New York, finally met with Rosalind Guttman, 81, in Florida after the pair formed an unlikely bond while playing more than 300 matches on the Words with Friends app. The app lets people play a Scrabble-like game with Facebook friends or other randomly-paired competitors. He tweeted pictures of the pair greeting like long lost friends and the touching images have been shared more than 240,000 times on the social media network, garnering more than 1 million likes. The meeting was arranged by the mother of one of Mr Sleyon friends, Hannah Butler, after she overheard the pair talking about the rapper’s chance friendship. Amy Butler, a pastor at the Riverside Church, in Manhattan, initially wanted to write ...