LIBRARY staff have been delighted to welcome an unexpected visitor from the far side of the world.
Over the past few years, Richmond librarian Angie Simpson has forged close links with towns around the world that share her home town's name.
From those links, a number of displays have been featured in the library, but when Anne Bowden, from the Tasman district library service in Richmond, New Zealand, dropped in, it was a very welcome first.
Anne was on holiday in the UK with her husband and said: "I couldn't travel through Yorkshire without seeing Angie and the staff. I really feel I've got to know them over the years.
"As so many of the opportunities for public libraries at the moment - e-mail and the world wide web - are dedicated to making the world a smaller place, I thought I'd really prove what keeping in touch can mean."
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