COUNTRY cop turned author Mike Pannett will be signing copies of his new book at Waterstones in the Kingsgate Centre, on Wednesday from 12pm to 1pm.

Up Beat and Down Dale details the trials of working as a policeman in rural North Yorkshire.

Mike, originally from York, served with the Metropolitan Police, London before becoming a rural beat officer in North Yorkshire.

He is the official police consultant for a two-part documentary about policing last year’s riots which screens on BBC2 later this month.