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A Welsh artist has been granted permission to recreate images from one of Beatrix Potter's most famous works, so that blind children will get to appreciate some of her characters that were created over 100 years ago.

Colin Antwis, from Mold in Flintshire, makes illustrations using swell paper, which in his own words: "is a kind of relief pattern, which really brings the characters to life in 3D."

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