Recently, after a very busy day, we were returning home in one of the back lanes when after pulling in for a car to pass, our own car suffered a major breakdown.

The other car stopped and two lovely young lads, on their way home to East Allington, asked if they could help, trying to locate the problem.

By amazing chance, the next car along was a taxi whose very pleasant driver agreed to take us home.

Then we telephoned our insurance breakdown service and were dealt with in a very helpful and courteous way.

He arranged for Kingsbridge Auto Breakdown Service to collect our car keys from our home and, within an hour, our car was parked outside our house by another nice young man.

We could not have been treated better in the emergency and it restored our trust in human nature.

Thank you to all our lovely young ‘good Samaritans’, who we do not think we thanked enough at the time.

Mrs C Bowles

Green Park Way, Chillington