The UK is continuing to wade through a barrage of strikes across a range of industries that have continued into 2023.Nurses, teachers, civil servants, rail workers, university staff, physiotherapists, Royal Mail workers, junior doctors, and ambulance staff are striking over pay and conditions.This video breaks down when exactly the industrial …

PLANS to demolish and replace Tenby’s “austere modernist” former Royal Mail sorting office with a larger 19th century-style development are expected to get the go-ahead. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park planners, meeting on Wednesday, are recommended to back an application for the demolition of the sorting office in the conservation area, …

By Josh Marsh – 6 March 2023 An award-winning EV charging infrastructure specialist has moved into a grade A office development in Chesterfield, as it strives to become the UK’s largest EV charging service provider. ChargedEV works with a range of market-leading key partners in the lease, fleet, and property …

Thanks to an initiative from Glasgow Southside Strike Solidarity, Communications Workers Union members from the Victoria Road depot produced their own Calendar Girls effort, as first reported by our sister title The Herald in November. Initially the posties had planned to use the money to bolster the CWU’s strike fund …

STAMP UP: The price increase will come into effect from April 3, this year (Photo by PA) By Ruby Flanagan For the first time, the cost of a first class stamp is set to break the £1 barrier and rise to £1.10, early next month. Royal Mail has announced that …

An article about the Oscars described two of Michelle Yeoh’s co-stars in Everything Everywhere All at Once as Chinese. Ke Huy Quan is Vietnamese-American and Stephanie Hsu is American, both of Chinese descent (Your quick Oscars primer, 4 March, p19). Homophone corner: “I am reaping what I sewed through hard …

Pistols made for the Royal Mail coach are now on display in the heritage room. Courtesy | Catherine Maxwell  The beauty of the Heritage Room will now be matched by its brawn: a set of flintlock pistols and muskets dating back to the Revolutionary War. Clinton Miller donated the weapons …

A WOMAN who came home to find a parcel on her bed was left stunned when she discovered just where it came from. Sarah took to TikTok to share a video of the package nestled in her sheets, before showing the note she’d received from her postman. 3 Sarah took …

The grisly discovery was made by a member of the public by the Cuxham Road, Willow Close roundabout at Watlington. They called the RSPCA and inspector Simon Hoggett collected the body on March 2.  READ MORE: Costa in Oxford handed low hygiene rating The RSPCA has launched an investigation and the …

The Royal Mail share price, now known as International Distributions Services PLC (LON: IDS), has risen 7.59% over the past week after the Communication Workers Union (CWU) agreed to a new framework for talks with the company’s management team led by the board. YOUR CAPITAL IS AT RISK. 81% OF …