CAMPAIGNERS battling to save Liverpool's Strawberry Field children's home from closure have won international support.
Staff at the Woolton home, which became immortalised in The Beatles' track Strawberry Fields Forever, called on the public to back them earlier this week.
Now messages of support from outraged Beatles fans have come the USA and New Zealand.
Since the Salvation Army announced plans to close the home, fears have grown that the building and its world-famous gates might be sold to a housing developer.
Fans from abroad have called on staff to put their 1,800-name petition on the internet so they can create international pressure.
Penny Pearson, a lawyer from Colorado, said: "I went on a Beatles pilgrimage to London, Hamburg, Amsterdam and Paris - all the Fab Four's major haunts - and had the good fortune to spend several days in Liverpool.
"Strawberry Field was one of the places I visited, but I don't think you have to go there to appreciate the significance it holds in Beatles history."
David Holmes, who runs US-based website Beatles Number Nine, said: "I would like to help by starting an online petition for American Beatles fans."
