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Reader Competition

Win a signed copy of SarahJane’s Secret – the latest book by local award winning author Janet Scaife. Further details of the book can be found opposite.

How to enter: The 8 words listed on the right are hidden in the grid (they may be in any direction). Simply find the words in the grid and put a ring around them, cut out and post to Word Search Competition, All Things Local, 74 Woodhouse Road, Kilburn, Belper, Derbyshire DE56 0NA. Don’t forget to include a separate piece of paper with your name, address and telephone number on it. Closing date for entries: Wednesday 13 October 2021. Prize winner will be notified by telephone initially. All entries are destroyed after the closing date and no information is given to any third party. J D H R B V S T Q R J H N I N Z E C Y R D V A G R T R K R W V A H H N F M K Z N O C O A I H E D T Q Y P N H R K M O M R E J I U G A H P T L U O F J U O S X U D W B Q F I J J K U S H T G R C L A Z A G Q Z N L H O X I C L P N P J A Z O O Z M S E C R E T Q L T K R B I H C Q Y T F W H E X R

MILFORD SARAH JANE HOLBROOK SECRET JANET SCAIFE AUTHOR

JANET SCAIFE NEW BOOK OUT NOW

Sarah-Jane’s Secret

Afamily saga set in the local village of Milford in the 1950s. Sarah-Jane Holbrook is fourteen and the only daughter of an abusive mother and a drunken father who is in prison more than he is out of it. Looking for the love that seems to have evaded her life, Sarah-Jane gets friendly with local farmer’s son, Terry Miller. But fate is not kind and Sarah-Jane finds herself looking after her brothers, and fighting to keep them all together when the local bobby takes an interest and the authorities get involved. Sarah-Jane loses the battle and finds herself alone, her only real friend the local wise woman who lives close by. When she thinks things can’t get any worse, Sarah-Jane finds herself pregnant, and the father of her baby is going to marry someone else. All alone in the darkness of night, she gives birth to a daughter, but is illprepared. In desperation she makes a decision, little knowing how it will change her life. But everything has its price and Sarah-Jane finds herself in a position where she has to keep one very big secret, or lose everything.

Janet Scaife Bio.

In 1991 I won The Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writer of the Year Award with my first novel. That was the beginning. I had always wanted to write but had never felt I would be able to do it. Then one day I told myself, if you don’t try, you will never know. I went to Woolworths at the bottom of King Street in Belper and bought the cheapest typewriter I could find, then a pack of paper from Frearson’s. Then I went home and began writing. Those first few pages were done over and over again, and I was soon returning to Frearson’s for more paper. But I soon got into the habit of getting one page to run on to another and far less got ripped up. After winning the award my career took off and I wrote several sagas for Transworld under their imprint Corgi books, all set locally in Derbyshire. But unfortunately, ill health began to get in the way. Arthritis had affected my spine and sitting for long periods had, quite literally, become a pain in the backside. My writing began to suffer and I gave up. Several years, and medical procedures later, I began to think about having another go. If James Bond can say ‘Never say Never’, so can a 68-year-old gran who has remained at age 31 inside her head. She is 72 now, but that is only a number and the one that matters is still the one inside her head. It was 2017 when I published what I call my first second chance book, Aphrodite’s Child, a romantic saga set in Cyprus. The follow-on, Casanova’s, was published in 2018. 2019 brought a new story to life: The One Meant to Last, a romance touching on reincarnation, set in England, Vietnam, America, and Spain. A year later I wrote Owls on the Bonnet, a different kind of romance for me concerning dementia. My stories are all fiction, but this was one I felt I needed to write. My mother had died a year before I began writing it and she had dementia, an awful illness that takes a person away but leaves their body behind. I feel the act of writing that book was very cathartic for me and something I had to do. This year my fifth ‘second chance’ book has been published: SarahJane’s Secret. For this I have returned to the family saga set locally in Milford in the 1950s. I was born in Milford and lived there until I married, except for a couple of years between ages 6-8 spent in Allestree, where I now live. The story begins in 1950, a decade I remember well. I chose the cottages that once stood on Swainsley to set the beginning of the story, where my childhood friend Pat lived. They pulled the cottages down somewhere around 1963. I have lived in Allestree for the last 32 years now, in the house where I lived when my first book got published and where I am still writing, and will continue to do so, hopefully, for some time to come. I am always interested in my readers and what they think of my writing, good or bad, and can be contacted at janetscaife496@gmail.com. I answer all emails, but sometimes it can take a bit of time before I am able to get back to everyone, so please be patient.

Sarah-Jane’s Secret can be purchased from Amazon £6.99 or £1.99 for Kindle

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Rotary’s 2021 Christmas Shoebox Appeal

The Rotary Club of Derby is once again launching its 2021 campaign to fill shoeboxes with small gifts aimed at children in parts of the world where they would otherwise receive nothing at Christmas.

In 2020 the club collected 1,824 shoeboxes in the Derby area, despite the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, contributing to over 43,000 collected nationally by the Teams4U charity (teams4u.com). These were transported and given to children living in poverty in Eastern Europe. The shoeboxes were collected by Rotary members from schools, churches, businesses and individuals. They were then checked and prepared for transport by their warehouse team at Darley Abbey Mills and transported and delivered by Teams4U.

So, again in 2021, the Rotary Club is inviting businesses, schools, churches, clubs etc. who would like to take part to fill a shoe box with some presents suitable for giving to a young boy or girl. When shoeboxes have been filled, a member of Rotary will collect them. The boxes will be taken to a specially arranged collection centre, where they will be checked by an experienced team of helpers. These enthusiastic volunteers work tirelessly through the year creating extras to top up the boxes where necessary. They will then be collected by T4U, who will arrange for them to be transported to a country in Eastern Europe or Africa and distributed to needy children.

The Club’s President, Angus Currie, said “We have found that children and many adults in the UK derive a lot of pleasure and satisfaction at Christmas time in making up a gift box. It becomes truly ‘Love in a Box’”.

Anyone wishing to donate a shoebox, help in the warehouse, or for any other enquiries, please contact John Worthy (worthyshoeboxes@gmail.com) or Anthony Attwood (anthony.attwood@darleyabbeymills.com).

Rotary is one of the world’s leading membership and humanitarian service organisations, with 1.2 million members globally. Members of Rotary volunteer their time to make a difference in their local communities and around the world through projects which support education, fight disease, promote peace, provide clean water and much more. For enquiries contact John Belcher (cherbel.rotary@btinternet.com).