Asked And Answered

Some of the most wonderful discoveries and inventions have been made because a single person wanted to know a little or a lot more.  When a ...

A railway poster for Norwich

View image | gettyimages.com Produced for British Railways in the 1950s.

The Conservatives' mayoral candidate for Leicester lives in... Market Harborough

The impression that the Conservatives are currently unable to challenge Leicester's domination of Leicester politics is strengthened by ...

Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine Club on the stage

An exciting announcement from the Pentabus rural theatre company: The Lone Pine Club by Alice Birch  Pentabus Theatre Company presents a ri...

Pig rescued from slaughterhouse now thinks he’s a dog

Metro wins Headline of the Day. Thanks to Martin Brookes on Twitter.

Official Shares DoD’s Technology Goals With Industry

By Terri Moon Cronk DoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2015 – The assistant secretary of defense for acquisition laid out ...

Measles

The United States is currently experiencing a large, multi-state outbreak of measles linked to an amusement park in California. The last con...

February All Year Long

We have crossed the midway point between the official date of winter, December 21, 2014, and that of spring, March 20, 2015. In the northern...

Steam on the Derwent Valley Railway

A couple of years ago I posted a video of a diesel freight train on the Derwent Valley Railway from the late 1970s: When I was an undergrad...