Local author and serving police officer Mike Thomas will be launching his satirical novel ‘Pocket Notebook’ at Bedwas Community Education Centre on Monday March 1 at 10am.
Mike will read extracts from his book and talk about the journey he has taken, from writer’s dream to the reality of being published by one of the UK’s major publishers, Heinemann.
‘Pocket Notebook’ follows the life of the main character Jacob Smith, a good-old British policeman.
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Peter’s Food in Caerphilly is looking for volunteer tasters to try out its range of pies, pasties, sausage rolls and slices.
The company, based in Bedwas, wants to recruit the “pie-ologists” to help better the taste of its products – which have been a firm favourite of the Welsh for years.
James Osgood, marketing director for Peter’s, said: “There is no-one better placed to tell us how our products taste than our consumers.”
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