A WINCHESTER artist has created a charity Christmas card for the 20th year - and this time it's personal.

Daphne Vaughan has had 2,000 packs printed in aid of Combat Stress, the charity that helps servicemen who suffer mental anguish.

The charity has special resonance for Daphne, of Edgar Road, because her father was a prisoner of war of the Japanese on the appalling Burma-Siam railway in the Second World War.

She said: "My father was a man who could never share those terrible wartime experiences. I am so pleased to be able to support a charity that seeks to help those veterans struggling with experiences of inner conflict.

"I feel passionate about it. I realise now what my father would have gone through. He never talked about it and died of cancer in his 40s, which I think was brought on by the stress."

The cards, which portrays a military band and Father Christmas marching past Winchester Cathedral, is available at the Charity Christmas Card Shop at the Tourist Information Centre in Winchester Guildhall.

It is also for sale at Cornflowers and P&G Wells, both on College Street, Cadogan on The Square, Bell Fine Art on Parchment Street and the Minster Gallery on Great Minster Street.

In the past Daphne has helped Medecroft Opportunity Centre, Naomi House and Cancer Research.