Midweek - 24/06/2009

Sgt Dawn Bailey is a chef in the RAF. She has led a team of military chefs at RAF Aldergrove in Northern Ireland to recreate recipes given by over 100 celebrities for the Help for Heroes Cookbook. The book is the brainchild of Squadron Leader Jon Pullen and a team of servicemen and women who served together in Northern Ireland, to raise money for the Help for Heroes charity for wounded service personnel. Help for Heroes Cookbook is published by Accent Press. The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire was born the Honorable Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford in 1920, the youngest of the Mitford sisters. She married Lord Andrew Cavendish, who became the 11th Duke of Devonshire and, on the death of his father, inherited the family seat at Chatsworth. In her latest book, Home to Roost and Other Peckings, she tells of events including the inauguration and funeral of John F Kennedy and her feelings about book signings. Home to Roost is published by John Murray. Oren Yakobovich is a former Israeli army officer who now works for the Israeli human rights charity B'Tselem. He came up with the idea of the Camera Distribution Project, which provides video cameras to Palestinian families in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem to help them record human rights violations they may experience from settlers and Israeli soldiers in the Occupied Territories. They are the 2009 winners of the Special Award at the One World Media Awards. Mike Pannett served for nearly 20 years in the Police. After starring in the BBC series Country Cops he was inspired to write about his adventures in the North Yorkshire force. In his latest book, You're Coming With Me Lad, he tells of his life in rural policing, a far cry from his old job, hunting down drug gangs and tackling knife crime in London. You're Coming With Me Lad is published by Hodder.