Former Leicester Mercury workers have got together again for their annual reunion. The event took place at Filbert Street where almost 100 pensioners from all departments enjoyed a Christmas lunch and drinks in Leicester City FC’s Carling stand. Among the

A poll by the Leicester Mercury has shown that the majority of its readers believe life should mean life. The poll was part of the newspaper’s Great Crime Debate, which has been running for the past six weeks, and asked:

A cashpoint scam where a midlands journalist lost £4,000 from her bank account resulted in a full-page warning story in the Leicester Mercury. Helen Walmsley didn’t lose her card or tell anyone her PIN number, but the cash disappeared from

The Leicester Mercury is running a mass survey into crime and punishment, and is asking: should life mean life for convicted murderers? The survey is part of the Great Crime Debate which the paper has been running for the last

The Leicester Mercury’s Hajra Makda is hoping to tickle taste buds while also dispelling a few myths about Asian food with her new book. Hajra, food writer for the paper, says many people think Asian sweets and deserts are sticky

A 16-page supplement has been produced by the Leicester Mercury to celebrate the Asian festival of Diwali. Around a third of the city’s population is of Asian descent and the city hosts several major events each year to coincide with

The Leicester Mercury has been made an official collection point for cat and dog food to make sure animals don’t go hungry this winter. Colleagues Linda Cotterell and Deborah Hudson, who work in the Mercury’s finance department, have set up

The Evening Post building at Temple Way, Bristol, is the unusual setting for an extreme sports video – with BMX bikers using the front steps for acrobatic stunts in a video for Hard Hat Productions. A memorial fund for a

Schooldays are meant to be the happiest days of our lives, so Leicester Mercury writer Lee Marlow went back to his old haunt of Castle Rock High to see how things had changed. Leicester Mercury reporter Lee Marlow left high

There’s no love lost between sports desk colleagues at the Leicester Mercury lately… Two of them – Martin Crowson and Jon Dale – have seen their village cricket teams drawn against each other in the semi-finals of the county cup,

Former Leicester Mercury journalist Kaye Almey has died at the age of 95. Born in Northampton, Kaye started her career at the Northampton Evening Chronicle. After marrying fellow reporter Kenneth Almey, who died in 1954, she moved on to the

“Son of God”, BBC anchorman, ideological writer… David Icke has been, or professed to have been, all of these things during his life, but it is a less well-known fact that he took his first steps on the career ladder

The Leicester Mercury has been meeting some of its most loyal readers. Following a story in the paper featuring Roy and Marguerite Webb, who have been reading the paper every day for the last 52 years, the Mercury has been