Loughborough Mail from Loughborough, Leicestershire, England • 7

Loughborough News Wednesday July 21st 1982 Authors turn up to aid publishers' sales drive Former BBC Ty newscaster Robert Dougall comedian and broadcaster Charlie Chester novelist Geoffrey Hoyle Royal biographer Dr Ian Morrison and storyteller Eileen Colwell all had lunch in Loughborough last week Each has a book due out in the near future all of which feature on local publishers latest lists and they were invited to the Beeches Road headquarters to help sell their work to the trade Determined to beat the recession and maintain their target of printing binding and selling 100000 books a day Ladybird have decided to invest in good authors and a TV advertising campaign as well as new machinery Managing director Mr Malcolm Kelley said Ladybird needed to make changes to keep up to date acter who has something in common with both Dr Who and Gandalf Dr Ian Morrison has followed his successful Ladybird pen portrait of Prince Charles with a biography of the Queen Mother which will be published to coincide with her 82nd birthday Of the four authors who travelled to Loughborough to be present at the function Miss Eileen Colwell was the least troubled by the rail strike She lives with her sister Vera in Priory Road Nan-pantan having moved to Loughborough in 1969 when she came to teach in the school of librarianship Her Bedtime anthology is aimed at the Christmas market and is the result of many years spent working with children and books in many parts of the world including America and Japan and one of those changes was reflected in Robert 158 page book British Birds which features more than 200 species lavishly illustrated with colour photographs and is quite unlike anything Ladybird have published before A keen birdwatcher for the past 35 years he was president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds from 1970 to 1975 and was made an honorary vice president in 1979 Robert Dougall has produced a book that will appeal to children and adults alike His association with Ladybird began three years ago when he came to Loughborough to launch a range of toys Later over coffee in Mr office he agreed to produce the book Better known for more risque stories Charlie Chester has contributed one about a dragon that squirts water instead of breathing fire as his contribution to the Ladybird Book of Dragons Together with his scientist father Sir Fred Hoyle novelist Geoffrey Hoyle has produced four science fiction stories for older children the central character of which is Professor Gamma an eccentric char Charlie Chester Eileen Colwell and Robert Dougall MAD MOMENT WHEN EX-STUDENT THREW SOLICITOR In a of a 21-year-old art Boy remanded on warehouse charges A Loughborough boy accused of causing £25 000-worth of damage in a Loughborough brewery warehouse was again remanded in the care of the local authority when he appeared at Loughborough juvenile court last Thursday He is jointly accused with others of damaging a Ford van two forklift trucks and bottles and cans of drink the property of Manns NBC Sullivan Way Loughborough The 14 year-old boy is also accused of stealing drink a calculator and stationery worth a total of £15 from the warehouse Representing the boy Mrs Helen Brindley said she had no application to make on his behalf was also in breach of a bind-over order imposed at Leicester Crown Court in the sum of £100 last year after the prosecution had offered no evidence on a burglary charge He was ordered to pay £50 USA ringers visit Shepshed SHEPSHED people were given an extra recital of the bells of St Parish Church last Friday The ringers were a group of people from the United States who have been visiting churches throughout the county where they have played three-hour peals The visit was something of a luxury for the ringers whose choice of bell towers is limited to 20 in the whole of North America FORMER pupil De Lisle Roman Catholic Comprehensive School David Heald has gained a degree in general studies at Liverpool former Loughborough student threw a beer glass at a man in a public house Leicester Crown Court was told David William Lander unemployed of Kings Avenue Loughborough admitted maliciously wounding Mr Paul Jarrom on March 26 this year He was given an 18-month suspended prison sentence The court heard there had been some trouble between a group of people whom Lander was with and a group of Mr friends in a Loughborough public house earlier in the evening Mr Davis Price prosecuting said that just before closing time Mr Jarrom returned from the bar to find Lander sitting on the back of his chair He asked him to move but Lander refused and as Mr Jarrom pulled the chair nearer to the table Lander became abusive Mr Jarrom suggestd they went outside to sort the matter out and shortly afterwards Lander threw the glass His victim needed 20 stitches in his face Interviewed by the police Lander said he did not intend to cause Mr Jarrom such a serious injury He claimed he threw the glass so that he did not come to any harm former personal tutor at Loughborough College of Art and Design Mr John Holden told the court that in three years of knowing the man he had never seen him lose his temper Mr Stephen Gash defending said it had been a moment of madness sentence was suspended for two years He Asking for more East Leake parish church have re-elected Mr George Dyson and Mrs Ann Harris as churchwardens Treasurer Mr Martin Clark warned that they needed to increase their giving considerably in 1983 to enable the church to balance its books No extension North West Leicestershire district planning committee have turned down a proposal for an extension to provide a machine store at the premises of A Brookes and Son Derby Road Looking for qualify and value in your lifted hifchen? a mmmsHt solution lo your problem iiii -KITCHF i fiat in' At SPACE DESIGN we have nearly 10 years' experience in fitting kitchens We have learned the hard way that there are no short I 'll cuts to a perfect result Take 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