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If there is one government department which will always provide exact data - though those that work on it may be less reliable - it must be the legendary Air Ministry Roof.

What is it about stress that is so addictive? Most of the people I know - who work in the art and antiques business - are stressed-out. The funny thing is, they don’t really complain about it. If anything, stress is worn like a badge of honour.

John Sheppard (born 6.8.1915) enlistedinto 5th Bn The Leicestershire Regiment (TA) on 18.5.1932 at Market Harborough. Served as Platoon Sergeant Major in Norway with 1/5th Battalion in World War Two and was awarded the D.C.M. (L.G.

What’s the next big thing? I wish I knew! It’s a question I’ve been asked so often that these days I evade answering it altogether or simply retort with a lame joke about crystal balls and sitting on a beach with pots of money in the bank.

Honeybees, our most important food pollinators, have started dropping like proverbial flies! We needed to find out why, and research by scientists indicates that it is due to the increased use of a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids.

St James’ is a modest sized 12th Century church in the equally modest sized village of Burton Lazars, found to the south of Melton Mowbray. Although a typical village church in many ways, St James’ has a very surprising churchyard, in terms of particular monuments and persons interred therein.

It’s time to shake off the winter blues and get set for adventure this spring. As temperatures and daylight hours increase the opportunities for freedom, relaxation and exploration do too.

Serving personnel and veterans worked alongside experienced archaeologists from the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), the Defence Archaeology Group (DAG) and staff and students from the University of Leicester, on excavations of Whitewall Brake Roman building complex within the MOD’s Caerwe

May 24th this year saw over 400 cities worldwide seeing millions marching against the US chemical and agricultural company Monsanto in an effort to boycott the use of Genetically Modified Organizms in food production.