Is nothing sacred? Speculation continues about the future of the venerable Cadbury’s, a sad day indeed if this great institution and philanthropic family business is sold off to an American multinational, most likely Kraft foods. The Cadbury family have been selling Cocoa based foodstuffs from Birmingham since 1824. It began as an attempt to [...]

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 So it was 70 years ago today that war was declared with Germany. People of my generation can scarcely imagine what it was like to live through that dark and horrendous period. All we can do is find out about it by visiting places and watching archive footage accounts. Here are a couple of places [...]

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