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diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
index dc5b7664f7..b753886fc7 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ recipe_modules = ['recipe_' + r for r in (
            'intelligencer', 'theoldfoodie', 'hln_be', 'honvedelem',
            'the_new_republic', 'philly', 'salon', 'tweakers', 'smashing',
            'thestar', 'business_standard', 'lemonde_dip', 'javalobby',
-           'serverside', 'infoworld'
+           'serverside', 'infoworld', 'sanjosemercurynews',
           )]
 
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_sanjosemercurynews.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_sanjosemercurynews.py
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+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_sanjosemercurynews.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env  python
+
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2009, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
+'''
+www.mercurynews.com
+'''
+
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class MercuryNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    title                 = 'San Jose Mercury News'
+    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
+    description           = 'News from San Jose'
+    publisher             = 'San Jose Mercury News'
+    category              = 'news, politics, USA, San Jose, California'
+    oldest_article        = 2
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+    no_stylesheets        = True
+    use_embedded_content  = False
+    encoding              = 'utf-8'
+    language              = 'en'
+
+    conversion_options = {
+                          'comment'   : description
+                        , 'tags'      : category
+                        , 'publisher' : publisher
+                        , 'language'  : language
+                        }
+
+    keep_only_tags    =[
+                         dict(name='h1', attrs={'id':'articleTitle'})
+                         ,dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'articleBody'})
+                       ]
+    remove_tags = [
+                      dict(name='div',attrs={'class':'articleEmbeddedAdBox'})
+                     ,dict(name=['link','iframe','object'])
+                     ,dict(name='div',attrs={'id':'articleViewerGroup'})
+                  ]
+
+    feeds = [
+              (u'News'      , u'http://feeds.mercurynews.com/mngi/rss/CustomRssServlet/568/200735.xml')
+             ,(u'Politics'  , u'http://feeds.mercurynews.com/mngi/rss/CustomRssServlet/568/200740.xml')
+             ,(u'Local News', u'http://feeds.mercurynews.com/mngi/rss/CustomRssServlet/568/200748.xml')
+             ,(u'Editorials', u'http://feeds.mercurynews.com/mngi/rss/CustomRssServlet/568/200766.xml')
+             ,(u'Opinion'   , u'http://feeds.mercurynews.com/mngi/rss/CustomRssServlet/568/200224.xml')
+            ]