Guest blog: World Health Day 2015: Food safety

Today’s guest blog, from the Pan American Health Organization , is in recognition of World Health Day .  This year’s event focuses on food s...

India 5 rupees 2014 - Jawaharlal Nehru

New circulating commemorative: ' 125th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru ' (news by Wolfgang Schuster , Shamik Biswas and Pabit...

Aruba 2.50 florin 2014 - Circulating type of Willem-Alexander

New circulation type: (news and scan from Wolfgang Schuster )

Denmark 20 and 500 krone 2015 - 75th birthday of Queen Margrethe II

New circulating and silver commemoratives: ' 75th birthday of Queen Margrethe II ' (news by Jo Hoogeveen ) (images and data from Dan...

The Hallaton bottle-kicking: How we spend Easter Monday in Leicestershire

Read more about bottle-kicking .

Clunton not so quiet after all

A.E. Housman once wrote: Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun, Are the quietest places Under the sun. But he clearly hadn't seen t...

The danger now is that Leicester and the county will grow apart

View image | gettyimages.com I have another first person column in the Leicester Mercury today. First Person: The danger now is that Leice...

Mummy Mummy What Does a Hack Look like?

Update below. Well sweetheart, there are those that come in tins . . and there are those that don't. And there are some that come all si...

Blog Tour: Last Of The Sandwalkers

As temperatures fluctuate between warm and cold, spring inching into the month, insects are making their presence known.  You can hear and s...