Terry Jones - Trouble on the Heath

Cynthia burned all the notes and persuaded Trevor to resign from his position as Head of Camden Planning. “How can anyone be happy in a position like that?” she said to him. “It would drive anyone mad.” Trevor agreed.

He also agreed to marry Cynthia, since she had gone to the trouble of proposing to him. And the next week he won the lottery again. Not quite the full £3 million he’d hoped for, but enough to set up a very successful business advising people on how to put in planning applications.

Angela persuaded Malcolm to resign his chairmanship of the Residents’ Association, and Malcolm was more than happy to do so. He persuaded Eva to take over from him. So for the first time the Residents’ Association had a chairman who knew exactly how to deal with outrageous planning applications, particularly ones put forward by Russian gangsters.

And Nigel the dog continued to pee on his favourite tree, unaware of everything.

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Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, north Wales, and was a student at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He is best known for his work with the comedy group Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

Terry was one of the directors of the film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He wrote, directed and starred in The Life of Brian, The Meaning of Life, Erik the Viking and The Wind in the Willows . He has also made many television programmes, including Crusades , Medieval Lives, Barbarians and The Great Map Mystery .

Terry wrote the screenplay for Jim Henson’s film Labyrinth and is the author of many children’s books. These include Fairy Tales, Fantastic Stories and The Saga of Erik the Viking . He also wrote the academic works Chaucer’s Knight and Who Murdered Chaucer? Trouble on the Heath is his first book of fiction for adults.

Published by Accent Press Ltd – 2011

ISBN 9781907726200

Copyright © Terry Jones 2011

The right of Terry Jones to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

The story contained within this book is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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