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A New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust team of conservators has excavated five crates from beneath Ernest Shackleton’s only Antarctic hut. Team leader Al Fastier noted “we thought there were two crates possibly containing whisky under the 1908 building.

The newly created Centre for St Mary’s Church, Sileby was officially opened on Saturday 6th March by Loughborough MP, Andy Reed and witnessed by the oldest and youngest members of the church, 97 year old Mabel Tatchell, three-month old Ioan Leithead.