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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Louise Lazell

The touching reason a Peterborough family’s home became the ‘most popular on the street’

A mother-daughter duo are proudly continuing more than six decades of family involvement with the Guide Dogs charity as representatives of its third and fourth generation to raise and train dogs for them.

When Hilda Copson became a puppy walker in 1961 – just five years after the volunteer scheme was launched in 1956 – she sparked an enduring relationship which is still winning the hearts of her descendants well over half a decade later.

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