Daily Mail Bids reach £156000 on eBay for dress made from 24000 LOOM BANDSDaily MailRubber goes couture: The craze for loom bands has spiralled even further, with a dress made from 24,000 of the wristbands up on eBay for £154,000. The dress, made by Kathryn Burnand, and modelled by her friend's daughter, received 126 bids…
Vince Cable defends Royal Mail sell-offTelegraph.co.ukBritish taxpayers missed out on “significant value” in the sale of Royal Mail Plc as the government's fear of failure meant the shares were floated at too low a price, an all-party panel of lawmakers said. The advice the government received on the sale … More: continued here
Early proposals for the redevelopment of Kingston's old post office building and telephone exchange have been largely well received by the public. More: continued here
Op-ed | This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stampsMyrtleBeachOnline.comI was picking up food stamps. Even then, I couldn't quite believe it. This wasn't supposed to happen to people like me. I grew up in a white, affluent suburb, where failure seemed harder than success. In college, I studied…
The exhibition has 20 frames of stamps on various sports and 10 exclusively dedicated to football More: continued here
WBIR-TV New park passport stamps available for Big South ForkWBIR-TVThe National Park Passport Stamps, which are free, are similar in nature to passport cancellation stamps stamped in a traveler's national passport. The program was started in 1986 as a way to encourage visitors as many of the 401 national park sites … More: continued here
What would you think if food stamps and welfare was being picked up by a lady driving a Mercedes Benz sports car? Darlena Cunha knows exactly how people think on this issue and she believes she was right to keep her fancy car during the hard times when her family was struggling with high debt…
thebahamasweekly.com Bahamas postage stamps to recognise 10th anniversary of BNGISthebahamasweekly.comThe maps and photography featured on the stamps are by Carol Albury, Duane Miller, Antonique Strachan of BNGIS Centre. The students depicted on the First Day Cover are the Centre's official Banner Students from Sadie Curtis Primary School. The banner … More: continued here
Royal Mail float undervalued by one thirdBusiness SpectatorThe float of Britain's Royal Mail last year undervalued the group by around £250 million – a third of its value — according to a strongly-worded report from the country's National Audit Office. The report on the £750m October IPO, tabled this week … More: continued here
WLWT Cincinnati Ohio overpaid $88 million in food stamps in 2013WLWT CincinnatiThe state overpaid more than $88 million in tax-funded benefits last year. In all, Ohio misspent 4.1 percent of the nearly $3 billion received from the federal government for food-stamp benefits in 2013, The Columbus Dispatch reported Friday. The state …Ohio overpaid $88M in…