Thousands of birthday cards for girl's record bid 60,000 do far 🙂 (UK/Global) 6/Feb/2026

Here's a feel good story of the day. More than 60,000 greeting cards from all over the world have been delivered to a girl with cancer who wanted to break a world record on her eighth birthday. Hundreds of motorcyclists handed the cards over to Amelia Kolpa, from Rowley Regis in the Black Country, who has neuroblastoma and has been in and out of hospital since the age of two-and-a-half. To mark her eighth birthday on 3 March, the seven-year-old wanted to break the record for the most birthday cards received in the UK, by hitting the 8,000-card mark. Biker Matt Lem, who helped organise the collection, said cards had been sent in from places including Canada, Australia, New Zealand and USA. "We collected 60,000 [cards], or in excess of 60,000," he said. "All In the back of three vans." #greetingscards #worldrecord #guinnessworldrecords #ukrecord #greetingscardsUK