IF heartbroken Frances Mayor could be granted one Christmas wish . . . it would be that every adult in Britain would buy the new Dunblane tribute record.

The country is being asked to remember the 16 children of Dunblane and their grieving families this Christmas and buy a record in their memory.

And nobody will feel the sadness on Christmas day any more than Great Harwood-based Frances - whose school teacher daughter-in-law Gwen Mayor died trying to protect her pupils from a hail of bullets fired by Thomas Hamilton.

The moving record, a remake of Bob Dylan's Knocking On Heavens Door, features a choir of Dunblane school children and Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits. It is released on December 9 and is hot favourite to be top of the charts this Christmas.

Speaking to the Citizen exclusively from her Green Street home, Frances said: "We suffered a great disappointment at the hands of the Conservatives on the important issue of banning all handguns.

It was a betrayal of our loved ones who died so tragically but we live to fight again."

She added: "We welcome this very moving record with its real anti-gun message which is released in December. Let us show our support for all the bereaved families by buying this record.

"Even in their grief they have chosen to donate the proceeds to three children's charities. Christmas for these families will be a heart-rending time so let us help them over it in anyway we can."

The families of the Dunblane victims have said that the proceeds will go to Save The Children, Childline and the Children's Hospice Association of Scotland.

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