A Winchester care home is offering free food and drink to emergency service workers.

Flowerdown Care Home, in Harestock Road, has opened its doors to paramedics, nurses, police officers and other emergency service staff.

The care home will provide free food and drink to all emergency service staff who do not have time to go home or back to their workplace during their break.

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Claudia Nunes, general manager of Flowerdown Care Home, said: "To say thank you for all of the great work our emergency services do for us, we here at Flowerdown Care Home are inviting all members of the police, ambulance, and fire services to pop in and take their duty break on us for free.

"We are pleased to offer all of our local service workers who stop in tea, coffee, juice, chilled water, delicious homemade cake and biscuits and a healthy selection of fruit, available free of charge.

"Our comfortable facilities include free Wi-Fi and service with a smile; do stop in and say hi, we would be delighted to see you."

Flowerdown Care Home is run by Barchester Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest care providers, which is committed to delivering personalised care across its care homes and hospitals.