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A Christmas fund has been launched to raise £500 for a Paisley Big Issue seller.

Paisley woman Caroline Mclean has set up a JustGiving page for the man, who sells the paper outside the M&S outlet in High Street.

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A JustGiving crowdfunding page was set up yesterday to raise money for him and £241 of the £500 target has been raised already.

This comes after details of the fundraising were shared 75 times on social media, and 39 people have already donated to the fund.

On her JustGiving page, Caroline said: “I was in Paisley and I observed the happiest politest big issue seller outside M&S that I have ever come across.”

“He was so kind and polite and people just put their head down and walked straight by.

“It was a freezing day and he was working so hard to try to make a living.”

“He makes £1.25 for every copy sold and in the 20 or 30 minutes I was there he didn’t manage to sell one copy.”

Caroline is hoping to raise a pot of money for the man to use over the winter and Christmas period.

She added: “Let’s try and help those in our community who are trying so, so hard to better their lives.”

Donors left messages of support on the JustGiving page.

One person wrote: “Nice gesture to make one deserving person happy this Xmas.”

Another said: “Well done in starting this for such a lovely young man. He is always so pleasant and deserves a good Christmas.”

At the time of writing the JustGiving page had reached £241 of its £500 target.

• To support the appeal, please visit www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/bigissueguypaisley