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A portrait of Mahatma Gandhi is pictured as demonstrators march during a protest against the government’s restrictions amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Berlin, Germany, August 1, 2020. — Reuters pic AUG 2 — Britain is considering minting a coin to commemorate India’s independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, amid growing interest …

Piano extraordinaire, Sir Elton John is being honoured by Britain’s Royal Mint with a commemorative £1,000 gold coin paying tribute to the decorated British singer-songwriter. The coin, designed by artist Bradley Morgan Johnson, depicts the pop legend’s distinctive straw boater’s hat, and fashions his trademark glasses out of a pair …

Sir Elton John has described new Royal Mint coins celebrating his career as both “fabulous” and “humbling”. The Royal Mint will be selling coins – one of which will cost almost £65,000 – engraved with Sir Elton’s distinctive glasses and a straw boater hat to commemorate his music career, which …

It seemed like a good idea. Up until now, the Government had produced three special 50p pieces – in 1973, 1992 and 1998 – marking key stages in Britain’s membership. So why not a fourth to commemorate its exit? I called Craig Mackinlay, a Eurosceptic Conservative backbencher, and asked him …

‘For three years we were stuck in a rut of indecisiveness,’ Bruderer U.K. managing director Adrian Haller, seen here on Jan. 24, 2020, said. ‘Once the election happened, there was a massive sigh of relief.’ HENRY NICHOLLS/Reuters At Bruderer U.K., a small firm selling metal-stamping machines from an industrial estate …

Gosh! Enid Blyton has been denied a coin to her name by the British Royal Mint. I was so upset when I heard this I drank bottles of ginger ale and passed out in an angry stupor after consuming piles of buttered scones. The horrible deed was committed in December …

Children’s author Enid Blyton was rejected from featuring on a commemorative 50p coin. Enid Byton is a popular children’s author. She wrote over 600 books which have been enjoyed by generations. Some of her best known series are the The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, St Clare’s, Malory Towers, The …

Increasingly, people on the right seem to think their sharpest weapon against liberals is to slander them with incongruous slurs that they are “too PC”, that they are “snowflakes” or even “overzealously woke”. You know your arguments are running dry when you try to insult people by claiming they’re too …

The Royal Mint, a government-owned mint that produces currency coins for the United Kingdom, has dropped its plans to commemorate author Enid Blyton by issuing a coin, due to her “racist, sexist and homophobic” views, The Independent reported on Tuesday. The Royal Mint had planned to engrave Blyton’s face on …

Plans to give Enid Blyton a commemorative coin were stopped because the author is known to have had “racist, sexist and homophobic” views. The Royal Mint revealed that plans to put the face of the beloved children’s writer on a 50p coin were blocked over fears it would provoke a …