text: Our Knit A Kid A Blanket campaign has been a roaring success as the Sun on Sunday says goodbye to 2016
  
  LITTLE Lubove Seurtu would like a doll for Christmas — but she’s not likely to get one. Her best hope is to stay alive.
  
  Thanks to you, our caring Sun on Sunday readers, she now has a better chance.
  
  She’ll be warm this winter because of your fantastic response to our Knit A Kid A Blanket campaign. This week she got one of 600 blankets readers made to help needy kids in Europe, Syria and Britain.
  
  With a brave, hopeful half-smile Lubove says: “Thank you to the people who made this blanket.” We thank you too for making hundreds of kids a little safer this Christmas.
  
  Today’s Sun on Sunday is the last of 2016 — and what a year it was.
  
  We had Brexit: the biggest thing to hit Britain since World War Two.
  
  Like the war, it will reverberate for decades. We know it won’t be easy — but we also know it’s for the best.
  
  We had a new PM: While Theresa May looks like she’s of the right stuff, Labour looks lost, led by an unelectable throwback who somehow managed to get re-elected.
  
  We had a US revolution: Trump’s extraordinary win shocked the world. Now the world waits to see what he is going to do.
  
  We had destruction: Syria, a blot on humankind. We had sorrow: Bowie, Ali, Wogan and the other stars who we lost.
  
  We had shocks: Leicester’s Prem win. We had inevitabilities: England losing to Iceland then losing two managers. We had glory: Our best Olympics for a century, a tennis player on top of the world.
  
  We wish you and your loved ones a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. We’ll be back on January 1 with more great news, sport and entertainment.
  
  DAVID Miliband puts the boot in on brother Ed over Syria.
  
  He says the ex-Labour leader’s decision to block British troops being sent to deal with the despicable President Assad was a “failure of monumental proportions”.
  
  That neatly sums up Ed’s entire career.
  
  David — a former foreign secretary who Labour moderates hope may one day return to rescue the party — said lack of action on Syria has created a western leadership “vacuum”.
  
  It’s clear he was also referring to the space between Ed’s ears.
  
  OUR prisons are in a dangerous mess.
  
  Decades of mismanagement and under-investment have brought us to this: Riots, escapes, suicides, gangs, drugs.
  
  Justice Secretary Liz Truss is right to say the full force of the law must descend on those responsible for the trouble at HMP Birmingham.
  
  More resources are needed — and she promises reforms and 2,500 new guards.
  
  But how do you stop a disastrous 46 per cent of criminals re-offending within a year? We must punish and protect but we also need to rehabilitate.
  
  Is it time to clink the unthinkable?
summary: Blanketed in love by our caring readers LITTLE Lubove Seurtu would like a doll for Christmas — but she’s not likely to get one. Her best hope is to stay alive. Thanks to you, our caring Sun on Sund…