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12

May 2020

Coronavirus
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Special delivery to Knaresborough woman who lost sister to coronavirus

Published: 12 May 2020, 12:46 BST

by Connor Creaghan

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A Knaresborough delivery company took a very special afternoon tea set to one of the town's elderly residents after she recently lost her sister to coronavirus.

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A Knaresborough delivery company took a very special afternoon tea set to one of the town's elderly residents after she recently lost her sister to coronavirus.

Mavis Bendelow says her sister Rose Hill went to Harrogate District Hospital with sepsis and pneumonia but died from COVID-19.

Claire Bendelow, Mavis' daughter, got in touch with Knaresborough Delivers to see if they could do afternoon tea for one to raise her mum's spirits.

When Ashleigh Lambert, from Knaresborough Delivers, heard what happened she took the delivery round herself for free and then later took a Sunday Roast to her as well.

She said: "For me it was lovely to be able to do that for Mavis. It's awful what's happened with her sister but it was nice to be able to put a smile on Mavis' face."


Ashleigh set up Knaresborough Delivers as a collaboration between local businesses in March after her pub Six Poor Folk was forced to close. They also launched a Harrogate version on Sunday and hope to keep it going even after the lockdown.

Mavis welcomed the afternoon tea delivery and said that "it's a bit like wartime really." She added: "But in wartime, you knew what you were fighting. You really don't know what you're fighting now. With my sister dying, she went into hospital she didn't have coronavirus but that's what she died of."