Simply tearful...

It is 12:45am, nearly time for bed. Foolishly I am surfing the net before sleeping and I am sat here in tears, as I have found a story on the BBC News website that is so very sad. It is about three Cambridgeshire teenagers left orphaned when their mother died, who are selling their possessions, including three pets, to pay a funeral bill.

Jayne McCourt, 51, from Whittlesey, died in her sleep while suffering from a chest infection on 1 November.

Her children, Troy, 17, Rory, 15 and Alice, 14, are being looked after by their aunts in Riddings, Derbyshire.

Their father Brian died two years ago, and the children were unable to pay the £2,500 funeral costs.

The McCourt children have so far raised about £300 from the sale of their family pets, three spaniels.

They were told they had to pay the funeral costs upfront by the disgusting "Co-op Funeral Service" and are now forced to sell their memories and possessions to lay to rest their mother. Fortunately someone has stepped in and offered to pay the bill, but how terrible a plight these teenagers are facing. I cannot understand how fate has been so cruel to them. The youngest Alice said, "The stuff wasn't really important, mum was more important."

There are some kind people in the world, like the anonymous person who paid for the funeral. People like this person give the rest of us hope. I hope Troy, Rory and Alice find the peace in their hearts to recover and the strength to know that their parents are with them for all the days of their life. I can't write anymore...