PEOPLE in east Cleveland have collected more than five million postage stamps for the Guide Dog Training Centre in Middlesbrough.
Sotheran's, the Redcar stationery and art shop, has acted as the central collection point for the five years it has taken to collect them.
Peter Sotheran, owner of the family- run business, said: "Every year, with the help of our customers, we collect over one million used stamps. That is enough to pay for the basic training of a Guide Dog puppy."
Stamps should be cut from envelopes with a margin of about a quarter of an inch surrounding them and sent to the shop, in Queen Street, Redcar.
The Guide Dog Association then sells the stamps in bulk to an organisation which prepares them for sale to stamp collectors across the world
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