Police_World_02_2018

Competition page Lottery Results International Police Association Section UK

The winners for February 2018 were: 1st (£100) Douglas Skate - Region 8, Cambridgeshire branch; 2nd (£50) Ronnie Dukes - Region 1, Glasgow, Lomond & Clyde branch; 3rd (£45) Mike Vince - Region 7, Thames Valley branch.

January 2018: 1st (£100) Shirley Wright - Region 1, Central Scotland branch; 2nd (£50) Peter Spencer - Region 7, Wiltshire branch; 3rd (£45) Sara Luke - Region 5, Nottinghamshire branch. December 2017: 1st (£100) Steve Bretherton - Region 8, Cambridgeshire branch; 2nd (£50) John Ison - Region 5, Birmingham West Midlands branch; 3rd (£45) Dennis Walland - Region 5, Warwickshire branch.

Vol 63, Edition 1 Winners: Mike Collins (Region 5, Birmingham West Midlands Branch) wins the crossword. Tom Ferguson (Region 1, Central Scotland Branch) wins the sudoku.

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Puzzles The prizes for this edition are Between Stone and a Hard Place by Neil Hallam and Mary Ann Cotton: Dark Angel: Britain s First Female Serial Killer by Martin Connolly.

Solve the puzzle/s and send them in. The lucky winners will be drawn out of the hat. Send the complete puzzles to: ‘Puzzles’, International Police Association, IPA HQ, Section UK, 1 fox Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 6AJ or as a scan by email to mail@ipa-uk.org marked ‘Puzzles’. Deadline for entries is: 7th June 2018.

About the books Between Stone and a Hard Place. Nev Stone & the watchers volume 1 by Neil Hallam Taking a terrorist’s life cost Nev Stone his police career. Saving an outlaw biker’s life in prison opened a new life as a paparazzi on the Algarve. Accidentally killing a child trafficker threatens to cost Stone his new life in the surfer’s paradise. Fearing another prison sentence, Stone goes on the run… Mary Ann Cotton: Dark Angel: Britain s First Female Serial Killer by Martin Connolly A female thief, with four husbands, a lover and, reportedly, over twelve children, is arrested and tried for the murder of her step-son in 1872, turning the small village of West Auckland in County Durham upside down… This book challenges the claim that Mary Ann Cotton was the ‘The West Auckland Borgia’

Across 1 - Small restaurant (4)

Down 1 - Compassion (13)

3 - Writer of literary works (8) 9 - Cutting meat into very small pieces (7) 10 - Assert that

2 - Spore-producing organisms (5) 4 - Autographed something for a fan (6) 5 - Practice of designing buildings (12) 6 - Form a mental picture (7) 7 - Unpredictable (13) 8 - Joyously unrestrained (4-8) 14 - Involved; intricate (7)

something is the case (5) 11 - Nationality of Oscar Wilde (5)

12 - Building (7) 13 - Unless (6) 15 - Former Spanish currency (6) 17 - Suitor (7) 18 - Number of Little Pigs (5) 20 - River cove; bay (5) 21 - Number of attendees (7) 22 - In the adjacent residence (4,4) 23 - Drop (4)

16 - Small cave (6) 19 - Dry red wine (5)

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