The vast majority of the thousands of students who attend Edge Hill and who live in the town make a positive contribution to the community.

And proof positive comes after this brilliant piece of news from McComb Property in an e-mail to the QLocal newsdesk from Paul McComb:

'Dear Senior Citizens of Ormskirk,

We would like to invite you to our FREE Christmas Fayre on Friday 15th December at the Ormskirk Civic Hall.

This will be our inaugural Christmas fayre for senior citizens of Ormskirk and we look forward to putting on further community events in the future.

We believe that our senior citizens are incredibly important to the community of Ormskirk; there may be some senior citizens who are lonely this Christmas and we would like to reach out to those people and spread some Christmas joy.

McComb Students hold regular meetings with their tenants and we are fortunate to have some amazing students who have proudly volunteered to be waiters and waitresses on the day.

We hope all those attending will have a fantastic day and most of all enjoy themselves.

The event is strictly for senior citizens that live in Ormskirk. We have 100 tickets available and your tickets will be posted to the address provided the week before the event.

The best way to RSVP is to call 07563 323 050 or email mb@mccombproperty.com - we will then take down a few details in order to post your tickets out.

If you have any queries please send us a message on Facebook or email mb@mccombproperty.com

On behalf of our student tenants & the rest of the staff at McComb Students, we would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

McComb Students'