A convoy of police vehicles swarm down Main Street and DC Stewart arrives at Butlers Farm to interview the staff, while Moira heads off to collect Cain from the hospital. When the cops later arrive at

WOULD you look at the man!” Maggie said. She wasn’t much to look at herself, being as black as sin from the coal dust. She’d just finished a shift at the colliery screens, picking lumps of coal out of

WHAT was the man thinking of when he did his shopping? Jessie thought. Two huge, brown paper parcels spilled food on to the kitchen table. Enough to feed a family for a fortnight at least. Slices of t

We watched Joe from behind the counter as he shuffled into Birchlee Library’s newspapers room, lowered himself into one of the padded chairs then, as always, peeled and ate the onion he took from the

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