THE title of Sheila Bugler’s third book alludes to the fact that the crime novel is the adult version of the child’s fairytale Set in London, and featuring the dogged DI Ellen Kelly of Lewisham CID, All Things Nice is a police procedural rooted in the nursery rhyme that warns us boys are composed of slugs and snails and puppy-dogs’ tails.

Taghmon Guild member Mella Winters fought off stiff competition in Wexford Federation recently where she won the top prize for her simnel cake.

In the Keys island chain, where Wilma’s storm surge caused extensive flooding, plans were announced to welcome tourists beginning today, as power was restored to nearly half the South Florida homes and businesses that lost it during Hurricane Wilma.

By Jim Morahan