TV presenter Jonnie Irwin shared a painful-looking picture with his fans after a five-hour road trip with his family. The star, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and shares updates on his work and family life on Instagram, said the trip had been ‘acoustic hell’. Jonnie, presenter of shows including …

The suspension of 11 postal workers at the Prenton Delivery Office has caused widespread disruption of postal services in Prenton and Oxton since July. The suspensions came as a result of a dispute involving the workers having cups of tea and coffee at two pubs on the Wirral during their …

By Jeorge Bird For Mailonline Published: 07:30 EDT, 13 August 2023 | Updated: 11:32 EDT, 13 August 2023 Advertisement Share or comment on this article: Source link

The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Cunard of Glasgow which was lost at Tuskar Rock in 1872. County Wexford’s five RNLI lifeboat stations will share in the proceeds of a fundraising maritime exhibition which will be hosted by Rosslare Harbour Maritime Heritage Centre in the Stella Maris Centre in Kilmore Quay …

C ash transactions dipped in July, in signs that people were tightening their belts or curbed their spending due to the poor weather, according to the Post Office. The Post Office handled £3.33 billion in transactions in July, slightly down on £3.35 billion in June. Personal cash withdrawals totalled £815 …

Brokers said homeowners coming to the end of fixed-rate deals over the last 18 months have increasingly turned to short-term fixed-rate loans on the expectation that interest rates would soon be falling again. David Hollingworth, of L&C Mortgages, said the proportion of homeowners locking in rates for only two years …

Tributes have been paid to a soldier believed to be the last Royal Navy veteran of the Dunkirk evacuation who has died aged 102. Lawrence Churcher was posted to HMS Eagle at the start of World War Two and landed in France in May 1940 to help get ammunition to …

A female prison officer who had phone sex with an inmate after they formed a relationship at the jail where she worked has been handed a 12-month sentence. Katie Loxton, 27, met inmate Adam Higgs, 32, when she was working as a prison custody officer at HMP Oakwood in Staffordshire. …

The number of working days lost to strikes has hit the highest level since the late 1980s. Some 3.9 million working days have been lost to industrial action in the past year, the highest annual figure since the 4.1m days lost in 1989. The figure illustrates the scale of public …

Part one of this article was published August 11 The Socialist Workers Party are expert at providing tame “left-wing” criticisms of the labour and trade union bureaucracy, while serving to politically block any independent movement of the working class. The SWP’s long-established theory of the trade unions is one that …