Nine candles were lit for the fallen and carried from the grave of the unknown warrior to the high altar of Westminster Abbey yesterday. Each was in remembrance of a member of the 2nd Battalion the ...

SOLDIERS from the 2nd Battalion, the Mercian Regiment (Worcesters and Foresters) will be joining a military parade through the city later this year, it has been revealed. More than 400 soldiers will ...

A 71-year-old woman from Stoke-on-Trent is walking 200 miles through four Midlands counties in support of the Mercian Regiment Benevolence Fund for injured servicemen. A soldier has praised a ...

Ethelfleda – Lady of the Mercians (869-918) - was a Staffordshire woman who lit up the dark ages. She fought back the invasion of the Vikings and re-established Tamworth as the capital of the Mercian ...

The Mercians - the new midweek partnership between Coventry and Rugby Lions - made a winning bow last night with a hard-fought 16-13 victory over Henley Alliance at the Butts Park Arena. A Jared ...

How does a ruler defeat bloodthirsty invaders, secure a kingdom and lay the foundations for England - and then almost get written out of history? Be a woman, that's how. Exactly 1,100 years after her ...

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Rugby Lions and Coventry team up to play the Royal Navy at Webb Ellis Road tonight (7.30pm). Flanker Gareth Gravell, who returned from illness as a second half replacement against Bristol ten days, is ...