Andy Whittaker

Author and university lecturer Dr Lisa Blower is hoping to put together a list of 100 publications to mark Stoke-on-Trent's centenary [Lisa Blower] People who have self-published stories could be in line to sit among more widely known authors as a city hunts to sum up its 100-year history through literature. Dr Lisa Blower, from Stoke-on-Trent, an author herself, has launched a project called "100 books for 100 years" in a bid to find one publication from every year between 1925 and 2025.

A woman said she had the bottom "ripped out of her world" when she discovered the man she had fallen in love with was an undercover police officer. Mark Kennedy - a serving officer originally with the Metropolitan Police - posed as an environmental campaigner for years, forming close relationships with several women. He was finally unmasked when a case against protesters who had allegedly been plotting to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottingham collapsed.

Image source, West Midlands Police Image caption, Stephanie Slater was diagnosed with PTSD before her death, her friend said Presenter, BBC Radio Nottingham A woman who was kidnapped and held in a wooden 'coffin' for eight days spent years living with PTSD, a friend has said. Stephanie Slater, an estate agent who was kidnapped and held captive for eight days in 1992, died of cancer aged 50 in 2017.