{"id":67332,"date":"2022-11-15T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=67332"},"modified":"2022-11-15T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:11:03","slug":"meet-the-great-grandmother-knitting-100-pudseys-for-children-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2022\/11\/15\/meet-the-great-grandmother-knitting-100-pudseys-for-children-in-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the great-grandmother knitting 100 Pudseys for Children in Need"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kind-hearted woman hopes to raise money for charity with her hand-made toys<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A GREAT-GRANDMOTHER is raising money for this Friday&#8217;s Children in Need appeal by making 100 miniature Pudsey bears from her home in Cardiff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May Brown has been creating the mini-Pudseys for five years and raised \u00a3120 last November for the fundraiser 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