内容摘要：Middleport Pottery was the model for the Providence Works in the story.

Middleport Pottery was the model for the Providence Works in the story.

Hollywood actor Michael Sheen has said he hopes his new children's book will get the next generation talking about homelessness.Sheen is launching A Home For Spark The Dragon, which tells the story of a dragon who loses his home and then goes on a quest to find a new one.

He said he hoped it would help children to start thinking about ways they could make a difference in future."I've always believed that telling stories is an important way to make change in the world - and in the long run, stories for children can make the most change of all," said Sheen.Sheen has co-written the book with Jess Webb and with illustrations by Sarah Massini.

The book will help to raise funds for homelessness charity, Shelter, when it is released on 5 June.Sheen, 56, said: "I feel very fortunate that I got to grow up in a safe and happy home, but knowing that for many people this isn't the case, has increasingly made me want to do what I can to help."

He said he hoped children would enjoy reading about Spark the dragon and his animal friends who live in "a magical woodland world" as they embarked on "a quest to find a new place to call home".

"I hope Spark's adventure is fun to read and at the same time, that his story gives a way in for young readers to talk about what it is to be homeless - and to start to think about ways to make a difference," he added.The little house is dwarfed by its neighbour across the road, the towering Three Sisters ridges of the 1,150m (3,773ft) mountain Biden nam Bian.

Its name, Allt-na-Reigh, roughly translates from its mangled Gaelic as "burn of the slope", a reference to the stream that rushes close by and down under a bridge on the A82.But Allt-na-Reigh is in a sorry state having become a target for attacks on the memory of its dead former owner - Jimmy Savile.

The cottage has been repeatedly vandalised since the paedophile TV presenter died in his Leeds flat in 2011, and his years of exploiting hundreds of people, mostly vulnerable young women,The Dame Janet Smith review, published in 2016, identified 72 victims of Savile in connection with his work at the BBC, including eight who were raped.