Patsy Brown has secretly ordered a statue to be made of her mother. But coming up with the money to pay for it is getting her into all sorts of scrapes.
Penny Martin and her father are advance publicity agents for Pedroni’s Circus, in which Mrs Martin performs with a team of liberty horses. An unknown man who has a hatred of circuses is making it difficult for them to advertise the show. The secret enemy bribes a man called Strake to set fire to the Martins’ van. Mr Martin is injured in the explosion that follows.
When Elaine Dawson acquires an antique mirror, her personality changes for the worse whenever she looks into it. After consultation with Mrs Raynor, Elaine learns that she is becoming possessed by the spirit of an evil witch, Grizelda.
Holly Johnson is a girl who likes to keep busy. She is always taking up some new hobby – to the dismay of her friends, Audrey Poole and Jean Jackson.
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Fay Farrell first appeared in the story First-Aid Fay; Young Fay’s ambition is to be a nurse, but her wealthy parents won’t hear of it, so she leaves home and takes a job as First-Aid Assistant in Horton’s Biscuit Factory until she can save enough money to keep herself while she goes to Pre-Nursing Training School. Miss Carver, the strict Matron of the First-Aid Post, seems determined to make things difficult for Fay. Another difficulty arises when Fay finds out that her father is on the factory’s Board of Directors.
Fay does get to continue her nursing ambition, returning in “Fay Farrell – Student Nurse”. When she becomes qualified she takes many different nursing jobs, including; an emergency nurse, fishermen’s nurse, jungle nurse and a school nurse.
(First-Aid Fay – 1963)
(Fay Farrell – Student Nurse – 1965)
(Fay Farrell – Ship’s Nurse – 1966 [Artist: Geoff Jones] )
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Located next to the town Ballyvale is the cave where Bumble the last witch of Ireland lives. She is upset by this new town disturbing her peace and regularly casts spells to try and drive the people away. She is always defeated by a young girl Colleen, who, as a 7th daughter of a 7th daughter, is immune to the witch’s spells.
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Life wasn’t easy for twelve year old Terry. Her Dad spent most of his time at the pub while her Mum was bingo mad, leaving Terry spending all her spare time doing housework and looking after her baby brother. Then her like of takeaway food brought a new complication – Mr Chung, the owner of the takeaway, discovered she had a talent for table tennis, and he wanted to train her to championship level.
Kate Miller and her best friend Suzy Durham, had started a Disco Dancing Formation Team at the exclusive St. Mead’s High School for Girls. It was difficult for them to practice, however, as dancing was not allowed at the school.
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Samantha “Sam” Connolly is brought up by her baseball player father, Quicksilver Jim, to think and act as a boy. When he loses his job, Sam secretly joins the Lee Lomax dancers to earn money as the star of the troupe.
