FIRE station boss Roger Pickett is revelling in the fact that he's been immortalised in Coleford author Andrew Taylor's latest novel 'The Scent of Death', as a corpse!

The Coleford station commander won a competition by the author and The Forester as part of our HOOF campaign. The prize was to appear as a character in his next book.

"It's an honour to be immortalised in a book," said Mr Pickett.

"I was given a choice between two people but the corpse was a better character to be in the end!"

The Scent of Death follows Edward Savill as he is sent from London to investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists and instead becomes embroiled in the case of a gentleman murdered in the city's notorious Canvas Town.

An escaped slave hangs for the crime, but Savill is convinced they have executed the wrong man.