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OUR COLUMNIST BARBARA SIGNS COPIES OF NEW BOOK

A JOURNALIST and author hit her deadline in style to sign copies of her new book.

About 80 people, including the borough’s first citizens, turned up to get books signed and have a chat with Uxbridge Gazette columnist Barbara Fisher on Saturday – and every copy was sold.

Barbara was at Waterstones at the intu shopping centre signing copies of her book Tales from an Old Hack – Memoir of a Local Reporter.

It covers 20 years as a reporter on this paper as well as personal anecdotes from being a baby to a chalet maid to a teacher. And of course, the stories of meeting Mr F and of having her daughter (known in the Bmail colmumn as Fisher Junior) who travelled from North Wales for the day to support her mum.

The Mayor of Hillingdon Councillor John Morgan and his wife Fiona, the Mayoress, picked up a signed copy and chatted to people while they queued. They included former Gazette staff reporters, news editors and photographer Toby Vandevelde.

The crowd included friends from her college days in the Midlands and teaching years in Greenford as well as politi- cians, people from the Beck Theatre, Uxbridge College, local charities and many nearby residents.

For most, the main reason for being there was because they were Gazette stalwarts, many of them regular readers of Bm@il, which Barbara, of course, is always happy to chat about.

PHOTO: TOBY VANDEVELDE Writer Barbara Fisher with former Gazette sub editor Caroline Fewkes

PHOTO: MR F Barbara with the Mayor and Mayoress of Hillingdon

Many at the book signing were readers of Barbara’s column in the Gazette