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CWR,3 mins

Guide Dogs UK Celebrates their 90th Anniversary

CWR Breakfast with Phil Upton

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Their story started in 1931 on Merseyside. Two women, Muriel Crooke and Rosamund Bond, started training dogs to support servicemen who'd lost their sight during the First World War. Today Guide Dogs is the world's largest breeder and trainer of working dogs. 80 years ago Edmondscote Manor on Warwick New Road was the first permanant site for the charity back in 1941, we sent our reporter Richard Williams down there to have a crack at some training.

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