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A mystery man paid for a trolley full of food a charity worker was buying for people who are self isolating.

The man was queuing at a neighbouring till at Farmfoods in Crewe, when he overheard the manager asking Hopes and Beams co-founder Jane Whetnall MBE how her charity was going.

The good Samaritan paid for Jane’s trolley full of food and then left.

Jane said she went to Farmfoods on Wednesday because the large freezer at Hopes and Beams had packed up and she had had to throw away about £300 worth of food - including 90 portions of cod which was due to be cooked and delivered to people self isolating on Friday.

She said: “About 11am on Wednesday I decided to go to Farmfoods and see if they’d got some nice cod,. I didn’t know whether I was going to get enough because I needed it for 90 people.

“The manager is absolutely lovely in there and I went in and he said we’ve got some cod in very light crumb that’s come in, so I took every packet they’d got - it filled a complete trolley - and went straight to the till.

“He jumped on the till, because there was a queue at the other till. He was asking me how we were, how’s the charity doing and saying I bet you’re tired,.

“I said the days were long but we’re doing alright - and a gentleman on the next till leaned across just as I was about to get the money out to pay for it, put his card straight in the card machine and said, ‘oh no I’m paying for that’.

“I said but it’s a lot of money, there was 90 portions of cod.

“I hadn’t mentioned that the freezer was broken, he just saw what I was buying - that was all I’d got a complete trolley full to the top of fish - and he just paid for it.

“Isn’t that just the kindness of strangers? Isn’t that just absolutely wonderful?”

“Of course I thanked him and he just nodded his head and got in his car. I don’t know who he was but isn’t that lovely?”

“He said, ‘no, absolutely I want to pay for that’. He just paid for it, he went straight out of the shop and got in the car.