SIlver News

Silver Weddings 2012

8 February 2012

Finding celebrity silver weddings becomes increasingly difficult with each passing year. Many famous couples married in 1987…but not that many marriages have survived 25-years.

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Costly Salt Not Good For You!

24 November 2011

I read that the health do-gooders are at it again, this time with yet another report that UK adults eat too much salt. Which? Magazine and Consensus Action on Salt and Health found no difference in chemical content between regular salt and ‘costly gourmet brands’. In a quote aimed at getting reported in the tabloid [...]

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The Greatest’s Silver Wedding Anniversary

19 November 2011

Today marks the occasion of Muhammad Ali’s Silver Wedding Anniversary. In 1999 Ali was crowned “Sportsman of the Century” by Sports Illustrated and “Sports Personality of the Century” by the BBC. But the sportsman simply known as ‘The Greatest’ by millions of people around the world and quotes such as,

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Christmas 2011 Last Orders

10 November 2011

To coincide with the announcement of the Christmas Stamps for 2011, we are publishing our last posting dates for Christmas. If you live in Australia or New Zealand, there’s less than a month to go before you can place your last order…so don’t delay!

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Raymond Blanc Anti-Salt Crusade

12 October 2011

Raymond Blanc, one of our most revered chefs, was pictured in The Times yesterday holding a lovely rosewood and silver capstan saltmill. Unfortunately, due to copyright restrictions I am unable to reproduce the image from The Times, but the saltmill Blanc was holding was

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Shipwreck Reveals £150m Silver Haul

26 September 2011

In a dramatic find that has already got me searching for my Speedo’s and snorkel to see if I can emulate it, Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc., a Florida based exploration company with the desirable domain name of www.shipwreck.net, announced today that it had located the wreck of the SS Gairsoppa, sunk by a U-Boat in [...]

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