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YOUNG people in a flat share in Merchant City have made their own way to help elderly neighbours during the Coronavirus crisis.

Frank McGowan sent in a picture of a handmade poster from neighbours Alfie Burgh and Millie Simnet which he found stuck to his window, offering their neighbours assistance if they were self-isolating.

Frank told the Glasgow Times: “We have such wonderful kids here in Glasgow helping us oldies!”