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Each child took a soft toy along with them in their backpacks, pockets or push-along trolleys.

You featured my Pilloboo soft toy range for adults and children in May 2012 and I thought you might like to hear how things are going.

WHAT YOU GET Each visit includes a personalised invitation to every child from Father Christmas by post, child elf passport, all activities, ice skating, personalised meeting with Father Christmas and a luxury soft toy for each child over 12 months.

I WAS touched by the story of three-year-old Ruby Stewart, from Edinburgh, who is heartbroken after losing her beloved soft toy Mr Rabbit in London.

Furniture store IKEA, in Gateshead, is offering its customers the chance to buy a soft toy and donate it to three worthy children's charities at the till to help make a child's festive period a little bit brighter.

Customers visiting the shop, located in the Bullring, are urged to sponsor a soft toy for just pounds 5 from the Magical Giving Tree.

The money, which goes towards saving lives at sea, is largely collected through shop collections, coffee mornings, stalls in the boathouse and a soft toy tombola in Redcar's Morrisons store.

UP-AND-COMING Liverpool band Soft Toy Emergency are celebrating the launch of their first single with a special city gig.

The huge soft toy was launched on TV's The Big Breakfast and it makes an appearance at Spring Fair, Birmingham.

The fugitive pigs of Malmesbury are to be made famous as soft toy heroes.

She said: "For every soft toy, children's book and children's card game sold between now and December 19, IKEA Foundation will donate [euro]1 to support educational programmes run by Unicef and Save the Children around the world.

CLYDE, the spiky-haired mascot of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, is about to hit the shelves as a soft toy.