A NEW exhibition about Thomas Paine, his life and works, will be launched at the Charles Burrell Museum in Thetford at midday on Saturday, May 15.

A NEW exhibition about Thomas Paine, his life and works, will be launched at the Charles Burrell Museum in Thetford at midday on Saturday, May 15.

Previously displayed at the Salford Museum the exhibition was put together by the town's Working Class Movement Library.

The exhibition traces Paine's life and gives an insight to his literary works.

The exhibition, which is free, will run until the autumn.

The Burrell museum is open every Tuesday and the last Saturday of the month until October.