Joan Roca i Caball Joan Roca i Caball Joan Baptista Roca i Caball (1898–1976) was a Catalan Carlist and Christian-Democratic politician. He is known as co-founder of Unió Democràtica de Catalunya and recognized as representative of a "Third Spain", the group which emerged during the Spanish Civil War and claimed to have stood in-between the warring factions. He is also counted among leaders of the Catalan opposition to Francoism. The Roca family has traditionally owned vineyards in the Barcelona province; heavily hit by the phylloxera plague in the mid-19th century, it was driven out of business. Joan's paternal grandfather, Antonio Roca Calvet (1840-1917), inherited
Leicester Mercury 1877-1882 Harry Hackett 1882-1923 Vernon Hewitt 1923 - John Fortune 1952-1974 Neville Stack 1974-1987 Alex Leys 1987-1993 Nick Carter 1993-2009 Keith Perch 2009-2011 Richard Bettsworth 2011-2014 Kevin Booth 2014 -2016 George Oliver 2016 - Leicester Mercury The Leicester Mercury is a British regional newspaper for the city of Leicester and the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland. The paper began in the 19th century as the "Leicester Daily Mercury" and later changed to the present title. The paper was founded by James Thompson, already proprietor of the "Leicester Chronicle" which he had merged with the "Leicestershire Mercury" ten years earlier. The