Five Minutes Spare

Collecting Stamps by country – South West Africa (SWA).

If you are considering starting a single country stamp collection with an endpoint then SWA is one worth considering. It had a fairly conservative issuing […]

Bowness-On-Solway, Cumbria’s Little Gem
Bowness-On-Solway is a village and civil parish located on the Cumbrian coast in the extreme North West of England. The village lies some 14 miles northwest of Carlisle, […]

Any motorway without a hard shoulder will need to have radar technology to detect stopped vehicles.
BBC News – Business

Eleven people were killed and 98 injured when four carriages of a train derailed north of Cairo.
BBC News – Middle East

The World Food Programme aims to feed 1.5m children by the end of 2023 to combat growing malnutrition.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Armin Laschet wins the backing of the CDU executive for the chancellor’s job in September’s elections.
BBC News – Europe

FA and Premier League officials are told they have the UK government’s support to stop the plans.
BBC News – UK

Coronavirus continues to pose “unprecedented risks to travellers”, the US state department says.
BBC News – US & Canada

Idriss Déby dies just hours after provisional election results set him on course for a sixth term.
BBC News – Africa