Dolly goes to Rotherham

Updated on 05 December 2007

By Darshna Soni

It may be the birthplace of William Hague, David Seaman and the Chuckle Brothers, but Rotherham got a taste of real celebrity today when Dolly Parton came to town.

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The country singer with the Tennessee drawl chose the South Yorkshire mill town to launch her "Imagination Library", a reading scheme already up and running across the US, which posts a free book each month to pre-school children

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