Enid

Mr Mills, who owns about 50 Enid Blyton novels, then showed his 60-year-old wife, who turned the page and found the note she penned.

On 7 January, Enid Hollingworth decided to go for a swim at Clifford Health Club and Spa in Regent Street, Long Eaton, when she was suddenly unable to breathe and felt her "lungs burning".

Prior to Grange Hill, Lord Grade likened youth television to "the world of Enid Blyton", featuring gentle storylines.

He was sitting in a coffee shop in Enid, Okla., he said, when the idea struck: “I don’t even know how to describe it, I just had the desire to be a father.”

Residents of North Enid Avenue in Azusa, Calif., would find a broken window in their house or car and a telltale ball bearing nearby.