Retired news sellers can read all about it at home
Tucked away behind a wall in a quiet Shropshire village is sheltered accommodation with a difference.
Old Ben Homes, in Lilleshall, is run by a charity called News Trade, which houses retired people who were members of the distribution and retail sections of the newspaper industry.
This means the majority of residents either worked in the newspaper trade, or had family who did.
And most of them have a story to tell about how they came to live here, including 78-year-old Shirley Cox.
Mrs Cox, who is originally from Surrey, was waiting for a home when she told bosses she had previously worked in Fleet Street.
She said: "When I was younger I worked in a shop and I had been to Wimbledon Commercial College, so I knew how to do shorthand. I was taking an order of groceries and writing it down in shorthand and a woman asked me if I would like a job.
"I worked on magazines in Fleet Street and our office was next to the Daily Mail."
And when she was looking for new accommodation, she was asked if she had ever worked in the news trade. "I said, 'well, I used to work in Fleet Street when I was younger', so I got put to the top of the list."
One of the main players involved in getting the scheme up and running was Rowland Brown, who is a former trustee and chairman at the home, and now a resident himself.
Mr Brown, who lives with his wife Carol, was a newsagent in Donnington for 18 years. He said: "News Trade got me to come and look at the building and then I became committee member, and then chairman.
"I never planned on living here but there was a lady who lived here who kept saying to me that I would have her flat when she had gone."
He has been living in a flat on the site since he retired in 2008.
When Mr Brown first saw the site, it had been derelict for about six years. He said: "We started to clean it up and get it back in order. We got some of the local borstal boys to come down and clean it all up for us."
