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Bringing the gift of literature to the children of Yarl’s Wood

Posted on January 17, 2010, 5:00 pm, by simon, under Beverly Naidoo, Bluebell Bookshop, Cumbria, Penrith, Yarl's Wood, campaigns, child detention, children.

CUMBRIAN bookseller, Derek Robinson, spent Christmas Day making the 500-mile round-trip to Bedfordshire to deliver books and puzzles for the innocent children locked up at Yarl’s Wood detention centre.
Derek, whose trip is featured in this week’s Big Issue In the North, owns Penrith’s Bluebell Bookshop. He said, ‘I wanted to bring the very best books [...]

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