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Lottery Results The winners for December 2025: 1st Prize (£100) Mr Bailey (Region 8/Norfolk & Suffolk Branch); 2nd Prize (£60) Steve Bretherton (Region 8/Norfolk & Suffolk Branch); 3rd Prize (£40) Ian Reynolds (Region 7/Hampshire Branch). November 2025: 1st Prize (£100) Brian Kennedy (Region 2/Greater Belfast Branch);

International Police Association Section UK

2nd Prize (£60) Fred Boyd (Region 2/Northern Ireland - North West Branch); 3rd Prize (£40) Sam Olphert (Region 2/Northern Ireland - North West Branch). October 2025: 1st Prize (£100) Iain Sirrell (Region 3/York Branch); 2nd Prize (£60) Ronald Dukes (Region 1/Glasgow, Lomond & Clyde Branch); 3rd Prize (£40) Steve Palmer (Region 8/Cambridgeshire Branch).

Entry Form Over Leaf

Puzzles Above the Italian Woods: A Poem within a Dream by D. Osborne Hughes and Blackrake - a novel: The stories and the people of Derbyshire’s Iron Stone Blackrake by Neil Hallam 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: 13 March 2026.

Vol 70, Edition 4 Winners: There were no winning entries for the crossword or the sudoku from the previous edition. Better luck next time!

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About the books Above the Italian Woods: A Poem within a Dream by D. Osborne Hughes Above The Italian Woods is a quiet book, for the most part. It is a ‘One-Summer’, Coming-of-Age’, ‘Love Story’, but the real story is found in the lives of those who walked with us even those who hid in the shadows. I do not know and cannot divine between what is real and fantasy any more, but in that summer, I came to be a man and the course of our lives changed forever. Blackrake - a novel: The stories and the people of Derbyshire’s Iron Stone Blackrake by Neil Hallam The villages around Ripley in Derbyshire have always punched above their weight, due to the valley’s mineral wealth.This epic historical novel follows the families of the Blackrake from the Norman Invasion, though our villagers’ exploits at Agincourt and the War of the Roses, to the growth of the coal and iron industries.

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Down 1 - Dejected (8) 2 - Shifts (5) 4 - Cosmetic cream (6) 5 - Tricky elements; obstacles (12) 6 - Final stage of a process (7) 7 - Require (4) 8 - Unseen observer (3,2,3,4) 12 - Climbed (8) 14 - Made a bubbling sound (7) 16 - Bar that turns a rudder (6) 18 - Overly self-assertive (5) 19 - Change (4)

3 - Short heavy club (8) 9 - Ripple on water (7) 10 - Type of sweet (5) 11 - Worldly (12) 13 - Landmarks; spectacles (6) 15 - A borough of New York City (6) 17 - Overwhelmingly compelling (12) 20 - Triangular river mouth (5) 21 - On the sheltered side (7) 22 - Children beginning to walk (8) 23 - Garden outbuilding (4)

POLICE WORLD Vol 71 No.1, 2026

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