Shop loses £1k of chocolate after heatwave causes it to melt
A community has come together to help the owners of a corner shop whose entire stock of chocolate melted.
Ellis Stores in Scunthorpe lost about £1,000 worth of goods after its air conditioning failed to cope during the recent heatwave. An online appeal by Claire York, the daughter of the shop's owners Stephen and Linda Ellis, has raised more than £450 to replace the lost sweets."My mum has just cried," she said.Image caption,The couple have run the independent shop on Cottage Beck Road for more than 24 years."My mum was literally ready to pack in, shut the door and just leave it all, bless her," she said.
"They've had a really tough couple of years with price rises and everything else, so this was like the tip of the iceberg really.""Everybody knows them," he said.Follow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on
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