KIND-HEARTED siblings from Dalgety Bay have organised an Easter eggs-travaganza by delivering more than 500 chocolate treats to children at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh.

Eight-year-old Alex Fyfe and his little sisters Derryn, six, and Jorgie, five, roped in their family and friends to collect as many Easter eggs as they could in order to put a smile on the faces of children stuck in hospital over the holiday.

A few years ago, Alex spent Easter in the hospital after major surgery and was thrilled to wake up on the Sunday morning to find the Easter bunny had paid him a visit and left him a chocolate egg.

Last year, he decided he’d like to give a helping hand and asked family and friends to donate Easter eggs, resulting in a very successful collection.

His kind gesture has now become an annual donation and over the last few weeks, friends, family, local businesses and Alex’s team-mates at football club Nova Star have been collecting for the appeal.

On Monday, Alex’s parents, Nichola and David, loaded up their car with an incredible 532 Easter eggs and delivered them to the hospital.

Nichola is proud of Alex for thinking of the other children and said: “It’s a difficult time missing special occasions when your child is in hospital. We didn’t even give Easter a thought when Alex was ill so it was a lovely surprise when Alex woke in the morning to an egg at his bedside. The collection has been all Alex’s idea, which we have been extremely proud to support.”

David added: “We have been blown away with the support Alex and our family have received from friends, family, work colleagues and local businesses.

“Alex always makes us proud, he has never stopped anything getting in his way despite all the operations he has had. He was back playing football just two weeks after his most recent surgery in November.”

Due to the huge success of the collection, there will also be eggs for the busy A&E department, families using the drop-in centre, the outpatient clinics and those in for day surgery over the Easter period – not forgetting a few eggs left over for the hard-working nurses and doctors.