A former police officer will be hosting a special event to talk about his new book.

Mahmood 'Mebs' Ahmed who was a Lancashire police officer for 25 years and has published ‘PC Mebs – Finding Myself’.

‘A conversation with Mahmood Ahmed’ will take place in Blackburn Library at 2pm, Thursday, September 22.

Tickets are free but people do need to book in advance in order for the library to allocate the most appropriate size of room for the anticipated audience.

Mebs came to the UK in 1965 as a nine-year-old. He later worked on the buses and then as a traffic warden, before finding his true vocation as a police officer in 1989.

His book is described as ‘a journey of self-discovery - both romantic and hard hitting’ as it shares many aspects of life for the first generation Asian migrants arriving in the UK.

He met his partner Marjorie Alice Hocking in 1986, a union he says which succeeded despite their differing cultural and social backgrounds.

For tickets to the event you can head to Blackburn Library or call 01254 661221.