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Jane Peters, aged 2l
Jane was walking to college with a friend. The
friend went back to her flat because she had
forgotten something and Jane walked on alone.
She never arrived at college and she has not been
seen for the last five years. CCTV film of some
shops near the college shows Jane talking to a
nlan on the afternoon that she disappeared. None
of her fiiends can identify the man. Several
young women have disappeared in that area, and
police and her family and friends are very
concerned about her.
Jane is of slim build and blonde. When she
was last seen, she was wearing a blue anorak, red
pullover and jeans. She was carrying a green
r\ rl hur Sugden
was coming back
1 Mrs Sugden thought Arthur
Arthur Sugden, aged 6l from the corner shop'
Arthur went to get a newspaper at the local
might disappear'
corner shop and never cal-ne back. He has been 2 Arthur's family thought he
rnissing for seven years. His wife Pru says he had
Arthur disappeared'
problems at work but for him to just walk out 3 Nobody knows exactly why
like that was 'completely out of character'. It is her husband will come back'
thought that Mr Sugden had money worries and 4 Mrs Sugden sti[ hopes that
police believe he had been gambling. Mrs
Sugden and the couple's daughters Sheila, now Itichard (Dickie) Gallagher
aged 32, and Jeanette. 28, appeal to Mr Sugden home'
Dickie disappeared near his
to come back. 'Whatever the problem is, we can
1
put it right together,' says Mrs Sugden.
Mr Sugden is of medium build and has
2CoastguardssearchedtheSeaforDickie.
Leon.
thinning brown hair. When last seen he was g rhe rast person to see Dickie was his brother
wearing a tweed jacket, grey trousers and a white

Dickie,s parents were on

the beach when he disappeared'
carrier bag, with her books in it. shirt with a red tie.
4
Richard (Dickie) Gallagher, aged 5 of the
pictures best fits the descriptions
Last summe¡ Dickie Gallagher was playing on the beach on the family holiday in Corfu when he rirco.d reading.which of these
suddenly disappeared. The police searched the beach and interviewed people at nearby hotels.
Coastguards searched the sea for two days after he disappeared. They believe that if Dickie had n rissing people?
drowned the body would have been found by now. His older brother Leon, aged 12, was looking after Dickie Gallagher
Dickie while his parents went back to their hotel for a sleep. Dickie climbed over a wall and when Arthur Sugden
Jane Peters
Leon went to look for him he was gone. No tourists on the beach remember seeing him on his own.
Mr Tom Gallagher, a driver with British Rail, has given up his job to retum to Corfu. The family are
preparing to sell their house to raise money to help in the search for Dickie.
Dickie Gallagher has dark hair and when last seen he was wearing black swimming trunks.

CCTV = closed-circuit television-cameras that record what happens in a

particular area, e.g. in the street or in a shop¡
corner shop = a small shop - not a supermarket
Cortu = a Greek island popular with British holidaymakers

First reading. True or false?

Jane Peters
1 Jane and her friend walked to college together.
2 Jane disappeared five years ago.
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B July 200I ('()rIlpany.
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ó Slriona and her boyfriend hired a car.
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Re[urn of citroen zx p1B9 oAS hired 30 June 2o0r
r was both distressed and angry to receive your letter
6 July' r cannot believe that, ds you say, you are threatening
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to charge us for collecting the car \,ve hired from you, which is
no\M in London. And you are also threatening to sue us f or loss 'l'he car hire comPany is a because the ¡ltllit't' l't'lt t"('( I

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returned.
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both hit in the
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the keys
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break open the hire car for us. They are not allowed to
so r could not ge[ at my handbag or our luggage. we h/ere
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penniless in London and my boyfriend needed hospital
treatmenc out of the car told them what lt¿ttl
f or what those thugs did to him. rt h/as only
because r know happenc'cl.
people in London and r was able to borrow money that
we could Shiona and her boYfriend
get back to Edinburgh at all.
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on the phone we asked you to collect the car for us, drive
it
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luggage- will you please do this? As r have explained,
we have 'l'he letter from the car hire whilc it is itt l,olttlolt'
no way of doing it ourselves. And please write again withdrawing
all your threats. r think my boyfriend and r have been throuqh colll[)atly was a stll'l)risc t<l
enough, don, t you?
Stt iotlít
Yours faithfully,

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