The Leicester Mercury has today launched a new 16-page nostalgia supplement.

Those Were The Days, will be published on the first Tuesday of every month and distributed free with each of the paper's five county editions.

The newspaper decided to launch the supplement after nostalgia was identified as one of the main areas of interest among its county readers.

The first issue concentrates on the birth of the county towns of Leicestershire and charts their development up to the outbreak of the First World War.

Subsequent editions will look at the county at war and then take readers through the decades from the 1920s up to the 1980s.

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