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Next Thursday, as you probably already know, is a leap day. We’ve been having one every four years since 45 BC, when Julius Caesar tried to put some order into the passage of time by neatly dividing each year into 12 months and 365 days. Inconveniently, the time it takes for the Earth to complete one orbit around the sun is actually a little longer than 365 days, and every four years those extra few hours add up to another whole day. Hence our need for the occasional February 29th. Like the one coming our way on Thursday.

When wine in cans started appearing in shops here around 50 years ago, it was pretty dreadful stuff. The wine used was of the lowest quality, and it got even worse in the can, changing colour, reacting with the metal, and in some of the foulest cases, taking on the smell of rotten eggs. If anyone bought canned wine, they rarely drank it. Instead, they tipped it into sauces and stews. Not that it was any good for cooking. Even in the 1970s.

Nisa has honoured its top retailers of the year at the wholesaler’s annual trade exhibition and awards ceremony Taking place last week at NAEC Stoneleigh

When Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8 last year, a countdown started ticking for many of the companies which hold royal warrants to supply goods and services to the monarch.

Popular large scale events are set to return to Mid Ulster this summer if Covid restrictions allow, following a meeting of Mid Ulster District Council’s Development Committee.