Royal Mail unveils stamps featuring ten duck species

These stamps are meant to celebrate the wide variety of ducks, both wild and domesticated, found across the UK. The ten featured species are the goosander, Indian runner, mallard duckling, mandarin, call, Aylesbury, pintail, silver Appleyard, shelduck and the eider. Royal Mail collaborated with Cardiff University’s Professor of Ecology, Steve …

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Local Events in Barrow-in-Furness | The Mail

As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. It is important that we continue …

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The nostalgic charm of Bermuda

I had been working on charter yachts in the Caribbean and was soon to return to the UK when I first visited Bermuda in 1975, said Fiona Duncan in The Telegraph. I found the tiny mid-Atlantic archipelago enchanting, with its “lush” lanes, pastel houses, old forts and exquisite pink-sand beaches. …

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