The LeiceExplore crew have been to Shropshire! They explore the remains of the quarrying industry on top of Titterstone Clee - coal was mined up there too as recently as the second world war too. A post on here from 2016 has a video on the line from Ludlow to these quarries and its inclines. It's well worth a look too.
Before Steve Winwood was in The Spencer Davis Group, he played in his big brother's jazz band. Here's an advertisement for them from the Walsall Observer of 14 June 1963. All the books say that band was called the Muff Woody Jazz Band, but this suggests they are wrong. Muff Winwood, incidentally, was christened Mervyn, but nicknamed Muff at school after the popular mule of the period. Steve Winwood had just turned 15 at the time of this concert. In an interview with Mojo from 1997, Muff described his kid brother's first appearance with him in a jazz band:Muff soon ...
In her Scotsman column this week, Christine Jardine has a stark message for Labour: get your backsides into gear and do more for Scotland or you are toast at the Holyrood elections in 2026. The last thing Scotland needs is another 5 years of the SNP, so we'd better hope they take heed. Ahead of the General election last July, it looked like Labour were on course to form a Scottish Government too. Unfortunately, with cuts to Winter Fuel Payment, the National Insurance rise and threatened benefit cuts, they have blown the goodwill that propelled them to 37 Scottish seats ...
The Independent reports that Emmanuel Macron is reportedly set to tell Sir Keir Starmer his appearance at a summit of EU leaders on Monday is proof Brexit has failed. The paper adds that senior diplomats have reportedly said that the French president views the prime minister as the "demandeur", a leader humbled into returning to the EU fold because Britain has been weakened by Brexit: "The Brexit project, breaking away from the EU to create a global Britain, didn't work. We thought it wouldn't work because the UK is European, geographically and economically. Brexit was a project for a stable ...
Our revised joint weekly ward surgeries take place tonight. This week they are as follows : Blackness Library (Tuesdays 5pm - every week during school term time) Ancrum Road Primary School (1st Tuesday of each month at 5.45pm during school term time) All welcome - no appointment necessary!
