Cookbook for Rosie is success
A cookery book to raise money for a charity set up in memory of murdered teenager Rosie Ross has been launched and is already proving to be a great success. A cookery book to raise money for a charity set up in memory of murdered teenager Rosie Ross has been launched and is already proving to be a great success. The book, costing £6, was officially launched at Aldridge Methodist Church recently. The event proved to be a great success as over 50 people turned out despite the awful weather conditions and purchased copies of the book. They enjoyed tea, coffee and homemade cakes taken from the recipe book. Read the full story in the Express & Star.
The book, costing £6, was officially launched at Aldridge Methodist Church recently.
The event proved to be a great success as over 50 people turned out despite the awful weather conditions and purchased copies of the book.
They enjoyed tea, coffee and homemade cakes taken from the recipe book.
Entitled Long Walks & Cream Teas it features recipes from family, friends, supporters and celebrities together with stories by Karen Ross about family life illustrated by photographs.
Rosie's mother Karen said the book launch had been a great success and 62 copies had already been sold on the first day.
She said: "I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who turned up and bought a book. We have sold 62 copies on the first day so I am delighted."
The book is available from a number of Aldridge shops including Croft Newsagents, Lazy Hill Post Office, Herbarium florists, Hot Foot, Cards and Gifts and Naturally Gifted in Pelsall.
Sixteen-year-old Rosie, a pupil at Aldridge School, was fatally stabbed to death by a paranoid schizophrenic as she sunbathed in Birmingham's Centenary Square in 2001.
Following her death her parents established Rosie's Helping Hands to raise money for a variety of good causes in her memory.