Home design consultant and television celebrity Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen’s winter wonderland attraction near Birmingham (pictured) might have ended in tears for some children, but now some of the poorest youngsters in Britain are to benefit from its collapse, thanks to a kind benefactor of a Catholic charity for asylum seekers.Jim Sullivan, a supporter of the St Chad’s Sanctuary in Birmingham, was in a pub in the area when a man walked in and said he had £4,000-worth of toys to offload, as a consequence of the closure of “Magical Journey” after complaints from parents. It later reopened. “The man said he’d been paid in toys after getting a contract there, and was now left with all these toys,” Sullivan told us. “He was talking about try
22 January 2015, The Tablet
Toy story’s happy ending
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