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"Think of the headlines," Beevor said

"Think of four people already dead, DC Beevor"

"Sir"

"Sir, is it true Craig Drew has been arrested?"

"It is not Graha, that’s all, and he is not under arrest The press is still out there in force and I don’t want the story Mr Drew is not, repeat not, under arrest"

"He’s still under suspicion though?"

"Until we get so new," Serrailler said, "al you, DC Beevor"

The roohter

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From the Lafferton Gazette:

TANYA AND DAN HITCH A LIFT

When six-year-old Tanya Hallias aFair Queen in Septeuessed how she would ride on the float again not once but twice in the future

In 1998, Tanya was the Jug Fair Queen herself and last week she took to the float yet again--this tie in 1987), left their wedding at Lafferton Methodist Church on the float which was specially lent for the occasion and decorated by Claudia’s Florists, where Tanya works Her two brideseboys rode with the needs to their reception at Selby House Golf and Country Club Later, Mr and Mrs Loe of their honeyuided by flares The float is owned by the Wicks family of Selby Farms and was kindly loaned by Michael Wicks, a cousin of the bride

The couple plan to return from their honey Fair on the last weekend in October

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The rain began to fall quite gently as she drove away from the abbey but by the time she had been on the road for half an hour the sky was blue-black, the clouds heavy-bellied and the rain was sheeting down Jane switched on her lights and the radio Flood warnings Severe weather warnings Stors

The country road crossed and recrossed the river several ti she needed was to be stuck so precious time Cat hadto live," she had said in a steady voice "She has secondaries in her spine Shetowards Jane was slowing down and a couple of cars flashed their lights Lightning was jagged across the sky i fast across the middle of the road It shot up on either side of the car and she slowed, got through it, then pulled in behind several others It was half past one and al over

She wondered if it was safe to use her phone--assu? She thought not and the car had four rubber tyres which would presunal

The road had turned into a river and was gushing beneath the cars

Half an hour later, the worst of the stor for the slip road of the hts slowed the traffic down to 30 mph which became a 5 mph crawl The rain lashed down The radio issued soles not to travel unless absolutely necessary

It was quarter to three and 120it was possible to take the direct route

Karin McCafferty ca ell-being and deter

And then Chris Deerbon Cat had told her before she hung up He had a brain tumour They would operate After that they would know more

Jane had told the abbess the bare details of the conversation Karin and Chris would be in the abbey prayers night and day from now on

"That’s our job," Sister Catherine had said "Yours is to go and be with them"

Jane had expected to be in Lafferton by late afternoon but the storms caused such traffic chaos that she was still on the road well after eight, inching forward in a queue several ave her time and solitude in which to pray but, inevitably, she also had tis to her, some of them extre her ti ones

She had also met Simon Serrailler

She had run away from Lafferton and she could admit now that Siht Siot under her wire, in a way she had not yet fully acknowledged

The traffic did not ine and took her Bible out of the glove compartment At odd times such as this, she liked to rediscover the Books she did not knoell and which were not a familiar part of the church services

"The word of the Lord ca, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a branch of an almond tree"

She loved the Bible when it was at its most direct and matter-of-fact, when it spoke of everyday "I see a branch of an almond tree" It scarcely , occasionally looking up, over an hour later and by then she had found a notebook and jotted down cohts of the car in front showed red and it began to move, she was relieved not only to have studied all of Jeremiah, but to have put Simon Serrailler firmly out of her mind

He came back to it as she drove on, free of the traffic eventually and taking side roads and short cuts, to try and make up ti nose But his whole face would not click into place, he hovered so to remember exactly what he looked like?

She switched on the car radio and tuned in to a discussion about Chinese babies abandoned in the countryside The story ht have been biblical

She drove on down the dark roads

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At first they had all been cut out and stuck into a scrapbook and the scrapbook was still there, to be consulted, in a box file on the shelf, but lately he had bought a scanner and scanned the pieces straight onto his coot in he went straight to the shower, then changed into clean clothes, usually coreen one with a faded picture of Che Guevara Retro He hadn’t much idea who Che Guevara was

Food Lamb chop, carrots, peas, fried up mashed potato from the day before Banana Apple Four squares of chocolate Two s of tea He liked his food He ate well Always cooked You hat you put into yourself Tooin of junk--that’s what did for them Did for their brains and their behaviour and their attitude and their bellies

He watched the news Watched half an hour of randoer Opened up the com puter Switched on the scanner

FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES

The wedding between Andrew Hutt and Chelsea Fisher,

both of Lafferton, will take place on Saturday 22 October at

Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, Dedmeads Road,

Lafferton, at 230 pm

All friends welcome at the church

He filed it under "Additional"

NOTICE

The Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of

St Michael, Lafferton, give notice that the Cathedral Close

and the area of Cathedral Lane, Old Lane and St Michael’s

Walk will be closed to the public and to through traffic

between 1 pm and 4 pm on Saturday 10 November

Diversions will be clearly marked The Cathedral Close will

remain accessible to residents

Which was filed under "Pried the password, as usual every evening