The new exhibition space at Hawkshead Grammar School Museum tells the story of how Daniel Rawlinson, a local boy who made his fortune in the wine trade, established the school's library in 1669. The ...

Often described as "down-to-earth" in comparison to long-time leading garden TV presenter Don's more rarefied approach, she ...

Finance Minister awards prestigious prizes, releases Sangam literature books at VIT Chennai event honoring Tamil scholars.

It’s funny how if his father hadn’t made so many millions from coal, oil and gas, we wouldn’t know the name of the son trying ...

Unlike nouns and verbs, pronouns usually evolve glacially. Anglophones have been using their tidy little set for centuries. But change is not impossible. In Sweden “hen”, a gender-neutral pronoun, ...

The time for spring cleaning has arrived, and for our purposes that means it’s time to clean out the cellar. Or at least the tasting journal. Throughout the year there are only so many wines that can ...

Inkitt has influential backers and a vision for infinitely customizable on-demand content. What would be left for the human ...

This week's Press Run includes items about an author event at the Coventry Library branch in which a book about onetime ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...

The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.