Nearly two centuries after the invention of Braille by a blind adolescent boy, the most widely used Braille-writing tools, the slate and stylus, are quite similar to the tools used by Louis Braille himself.

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At the centre of the group was a blind boy, as alert and as slight as a gazelle.

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The ball was handled by spectators, which should have denied Wales the right to take a quick throw-in, but Wales captain Matthew Rees was handed a different ball by a ball-boy and passed in to Mike Phillips peeling round the blind side.

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Regional newspapers relish tales of posties' life-saving heroics - resuscitating a choking nine-month-old boy, carrying a blind pensioner out of a burning house or spotting the jaundiced face of someone with liver disease, to name a few real-life events.

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