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Beatrix Potter drawings reproduced for blind children      

A part-time artist from Flintshire has been given permission to reproduce Beatrix Potter`s famous drawings so that blind people can enjoy them.

For the 107 years that the drawings have been copyrighted, very few people have been allowed to use them commercially and they have never been redesigned.

But worldwide merchandising agent for Beatrix Potter, Chorion, has made an exception.

Colin Antwis, a former civil engineer from Mold, will remodel the characters by drawing them on heat-sensitive paper with a thick black pen.

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