Last year the centre set up an Enid Blyton archive after buying original typescripts of some of her best-known work including the Secret Seven series.

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The address on the front dates it to the 1930s, Summerfield says - prior to the Mr Tumpy picture book and before the debuts of the Famous Five, Noddy, the Secret Seven and Malory Towers.

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In May, publishers Hachette are putting out re-jacketed editions of the Secret Seven series, illustrated by Tony Ross, hot on the heels of last year's re-issuing of the first five Famous Five titles, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of their first publication.

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Imran Ahmed, 31, stole from Audrey Green at the Lilac House Care Home, Beeston over a seven-year period to feed his secret gambling addiction.

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