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The Queens Baton Relay arrives in Market Bosworth on it`s tour of the country ahead of the Commonwealth games in Birmingham. Having previously followed the relay in Leicester City Center I followed it to the village of Market Bosworth where we see the relay pass a Primary School with pupils waving flags they have made. Following the Baton Bearers along Station Road and into the square in the center of the village, we are met by hundreds of spectators cheering and clapping the baton as it passes through and onto the country park on the edge of the village. Keep a look out for a cameo from Perry the Bull mascot of the games !.

On the weekend of the 16th/17th July a rare Blue Supermarine Spitfire PR.XIX came to Jubilee Square in Leicester. On a tour of the midlands highlighting the regions links to the famous aircraft it also promotes the RAF Museum Midlands who`s collection the Spitfire belongs too. The unique blue colour refers to it`s use as an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft and features a fully pressurised cockpit for high altitude missions. The event also featured a separate cockpit for visitors to climb into and experience what its like to pilot such an aircraft.

The Queen's Baton Relay, part of the run up to the Birmingham Commonwealth Games visits Leicester. We start in Green Dragon Square as the relay runners arrive before following them though the streets of Leicester. The baton passes well known city landmarks like the clock tower and the Cathedral before arriving to cheers and a round of applause in Jubilee square where it is met by crowds eager to see the baton.

A village through time, Visitors to Desford in Leicestershire had no need for a blue police box or a modified delorean when the village traveled back to various time periods for the first Desford Heritage Festival. Streets and areas of the village where separated into "time zones" from medieval era though civil war, World Wars 1&2, victorian era and more, as visitors walked around the village they would come across wartime soldiers meeting with Tudor Queens and men on penny farthing bikes, Civil War sword fights took place at the side of the road, whilst a steam powered roller caused the most unlikeliest of traffic jams on the Manor Road !. the weekend also saw action in the skies with 6 tiger moth planes performing a fly past and with its links to the village a appearance by a spitfire and hurricane to bring the weekend to a close.

Travel back to possibly the brightest most colorful decade that ever there was, see the items that made the 80s so memorable. For those growing up in this decade it was a neverending story of great films, tv, music, toys and the first true home and portable gaming systems, we truly felt like masters of our own little universes. In the I Grew Up 80s Exhibition curator Matt Fox takes us through his personal collection of 80s objects triggering memories of our own 80s Childhoods. How many objects do you remember ?.