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Read More »New stamps celebrate 50 years of pride – Swansea Bay News
Royal Mail today revealed images of a new set of eight, vibrantly illustrated stamps, being issued to mark the 50th anniversary of the UK’s first Pride rally that took place on 1 July 1972. Issued exactly 50 years to the day, the stamps celebrate the march that took place from …
Read More »Royal Mail says there is no grounds for a strike by workers
Royal Mail says there is no grounds for a strike by workers CalendarAn icon of a desk calendar.CancelAn icon of a circle with a diagonal line across.CaretAn icon of a block arrow pointing to the right.EmailAn icon of a paper envelope.FacebookAn icon of the Facebook “f” mark.GoogleAn icon of the …
Read More »Royal Mail statement on new home for Nuneaton delivery office
Royal Mail has said land on the Bermuda estate is a ‘prospective site’ for the town’s delivery and sorting office. As we reported in our newsletter, planning applications have been submitted for Royal Mail signage on land off Hazell Way. Also within the application documents for the signage it states: …
Read More »Britain’s rail strike and the struggle against war: Bring down the Johnson government!
Rail workers in the UK will walk out again Thursday for the second of three days of national strike action. This is no ordinary industrial dispute. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government of political gangsters want to emulate Margaret Thatcher’s targeting of the miners in 1984-85, which ended in …
Read More »Fat Cat bosses at firms facing strikes earn up to 86 times average wage of workers
While Boris Johnson boasts about wanting a high-wage society, the PM insisted staff asking for pay rises to make ends meet would further raise inflation Andrew Haines – Network Rail chief executive was Paid £593,000 last year – around 18 times what the RMT says its average members get ( …
Read More »Royal Mail issues new stamps to mark 50th anniversary of first Pride rally
Royal Mail has revealed images of a new set of “vibrantly illustrated” stamps to mark the 50th anniversary of the UK’s first Pride rally. The eight stamps celebrate a march that took place from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park in London in July 1972, which was the first to bear …
Read More »Wingcopter secures US$42m in funding to expand delivery drone production
German delivery drone manufacturer Wingcopter has raised US$42m as part of a Series A extension round, taking the total equity raised to date to more than US$60m. ‘) } // –> Leading German retailer REWE Group as well as German investors Salvia and XAI technologies came on board as new …
Read More »Nick Ferrari issues warning to PM on ‘the growing sense of industrial unrest’
23 June 2022, 17:34 Nick Ferrari has issued a warning to Boris Johnson on “the growing sense of industrial unrest”. Watch this week’s episode of The Agenda in full here. The LBC presenter’s words have come as the country faces rail strikes. Nick said: “This week it’s the rail union. …
Read More »Pride postage stamps issued in the UK / Queerty
One of the Pride postage stamp’s from Britain’s Royal Mail (Image: Royal Mail) Britain’s Royal Mail is issuing a set of Pride postage stamps. The set marks the 50th anniversary of the country’s first gay pride march, which took place in London in 1972 and was inspired by similar events …
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