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Usage examples of derbyshire.

On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale, a self contained, insular community that distrusts the outside world.

I have taken some liberties with the geography of Derbyshire and with the city of Derby itself.

It had been worth every tedious minute of the three years of endless cramming for the law degree that had eased him on to the fast track, one of the first ever graduates to make it to the new accelerated promotion stream in the Derbyshire force.

George always made a careful note of bulletins from outside forces as well as other Derbyshire divisions, and he had paid particular attention to these two missing persons cases because they were just close enough that the children might fetch up on his patch.

Hawkin spoke for the first time, his voice unmistakably alien to the Derbyshire Peaks.

Within ten minutes, he was drawing up outside the house that Derbyshire Police decreed was appropriate for a married man of his rank.

From the kitchen and the back-bedroom windows, there was a view of Grin Low woods stretching along the ridge to the beginning of Axe Edge and the grim miles of moorland where Derbyshire blurred into Staffordshire and Cheshire.

POLICE COMB ISOLATED DALE Dogs in manhunt for missing girl By a Staff Reporter Police with tracker dogs were today hunting for a 13-year-old girl missing from her home in the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale since yesterday teatime.

The latest manhunt centres round Alison Carter, who vanished from the remote Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale on Wednesday.

But we would be very happy to share the fruits of our investigations with Derbyshire if this case drags on.

Scardale and thinking Derbyshire village life is milk-white sheep in a field full of sunshine.

He had one hand thrust in his pocket, the other holding a cigarette in a pose that would have passed for debonair in a West End theatre but only managed ridiculous in a Derbyshire farm kitchen.

Weather permitting, members of the public will today join Derbyshire police in further searches of the bleak moors and dales around Scardale.

If you know of any house where a teenage girl has appeared in the last few days, or if you know of anyone who has connections to Scardale or Buxton whose behaviour has been at all unusual, please contact Derbyshire Police on this number.

And thanks to a leaky CID and a sensation-hungry local paper, now Peter Crowther was frozen stiff in a Derbyshire sheep field.