A Double Dose Of Cheer And Chuckles

Laughter, most importantly the laughter of children, especially when everyone is celebrating something funny together is seriously one of th...

DP1 the prototype Deltic filmed in colour

Wikipedia tells us about the later career of DP1: In March 1961 DP1 was withdrawn after a serious powerplant failure; plans to test it in C...

Paddy Ashdown says it's 1992 but it feels more like 1983 or 1975

View image | gettyimages.com Paddy Ashdown tells Total Politics: "There is a really big issue that needs to be addressed by the left,...

Liberal Democrats are right to fight Oldham West and Royton hard

During the Coalition years it was taken for granted by the Liberal Democrats that it was not worth our putting up a serious fight in parliam...

Leicester's Turkey Café is for sale

Browsing in an estate agent's window this lunchtime I came across an auction notice for one of Leicester's most distinctive building...

Angola 50 & 100 kwanzas 2015 - 40 Years of Independence

New circulating commemoratives: The National Bank of Angola released yesterday these 2 coins to mark the 40 Years of Independence (which t...

Icy Encounters

There are still forty-one days until the December solstice but a chill is in the air, trees are nearly bare of leaves and needles, and snow ...

Canals of London 2

I posted part 1 the other day.

J.W. Logan and conscription in the First World War

John Dilley, former editor of the Harborough Mail, is using the archive of that newspaper and its predecessor to paint a picture of the town...