‘No way’: watch how homeless man responded to fundraising campaign success

A homeless man has been given the chance of a new life after nearly £7,000 was donated to a fund-raising campaign to find him a new home.

Les Gordon’s plight was highlighted when a picture of Les sharing a coffee with a Tesco employee was tweeted by Erin Russell.

@Tesco one of your employees – bought him a coffee & having a blether just along from the Tesco Metro in Dundee ??? pic.twitter.com/qywqrnpgol

— Erin Russell (@Erin31811) May 26, 2015

The employee was soon identified as Anna Loudon, a politics student at Dundee University.

Anna began buying Les breakfast each morning and the two soon struck up a friendship.

When he told Anna he needed open heart surgery but was delaying the operating until he found a place to stay and recover, she set up a crowd funding page for him, setting an initial target of £3,500.

It soon smashed the target and a video of Anna revealing its success to Les was posted online .

However, money has continued to pour in and more than £6,500 has now been raised – nearly double the original target.

For more see tomorrow’s Courier.