GENEROUS pensioners Walter and Lillian Moore have hearts as big as those Argus readers' who sent them cash to replace the couple's stolen £300 savings.

For our readers' donations have more than replaced the sum stolen by bogus officials - and now the Moores plan to share their good fortune with other victims.

We reported last Friday how the frail Abergavenny couple were conned out of their £300 Christmas savings by a pair of bogus callers.

Three similar thefts took place in Raglan, Skenfrith and Newport in the same afternoon, and police believe they are linked. In each incident small amounts of cash were stolen, but it was the Moores who lost the most.

Now the couple, who have been married 57 years, say they will hand over some of their money to the police to give to other victims who were robbed on the same day.

Mrs Moore said: "I didn't know there were other incidents until I read the Argus. To think that other people went through what we went through is very upsetting. We've been given so much money we would like to give some to the other people who were conned like us."

Donations flooded in from Argus readers touched by the Moores' heartbreak.

Two anonymous donations totalling £400 in cash were handed in to the Argus offices over the weekend - and we passed a further anonymous donation of £200 cash to the couple yesterday, with more donations pending. The couple have deposited all the cash in the bank.

The latest donation of £200 was accompanied by a note that said: "From a Cwmbran couple who were sickened by the awful theft."

It means Mr and Mrs Moore can treat their great-grandchildren, Daniel, seven, and Kai-Rhys, two, to an extra-special Christmas, as well as taking their 'tinsel and turkey' holiday to Paignton with friends - a trip they feared they may have to cancel.

Yesterday proud Mrs Moore, 80, said she didn't know how to feel about the large amounts of cash they had been receiving.

"I'm a bit embarrassed," she said. "I'm not used to accepting money from people, especially people I don't know. But this is absolutely wonderful, I just don't know what to say. People are so kind. It makes me want to cry just to think how good people have been to us."