THE village cupids of Lover have been busy sending out messages of love ready for Valentine’s Day. The Valentine pop-up post office and Darling Cafe are back and opened on Saturday February 5. The post office and cafe will be open every day until Valentine’s Day. Nick Gibbs, of the Lover …

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are ‘very driven by money’ and would like to be earning ‘millions’ a year ‘like their friend James Corden’, a royal expert has claimed. The royal couple, who have an £18million deal with Spotify and a £100million deal with Netflix, want to get to a level …

Fed-up homeowners Christine and Stephen Williams, from Alnwick in Northumberland, have decided to sell their home at a huge loss of £105,000. The couple erected the fence in an attempt to get some privacy and stop the customers from using their window sill to sit and eat their fish and …

ANOTHER Royal Mail bill linked to the botched Paisley Southeast by-election has landed on Renfrewshire Council’s doorstep, taking the cost of the poll to well over £16,000. The ballot was scrapped by the council at the last minute in December after disqualified elected member Paul Mack launched a late legal …

The Royal Mail has said traditional postage stamps will soon be a thing of the past thanks to the introduction of a new barcode system. A rollout of the new barcoded stamps began last week, with the public warned that regular stamps will be phased out by the end of …

Cyber Group Studios has acquired a majority stake in the award-winning Italian animation studio Graphilm Entertainment. The acquisition will increase CGS’s creative and production capabilities to meet content demands in the European region and globally. This strategic partnership will also provide Graphilm with major development opportunities for its own productions …

In order to create a more innovative service for customers, Royal Mail is adding unique barcodes to stamps to enhance the postal service security. Customers can scan the barcodes in the Royal Mail app and will eventually be able to watch videos, information about services, or even birthday messages and other …

Villagers don’t want to see their beloved postman Helen Miller lose her ‘walk’ after nearly 20 years ‘invaluable’ service. Residents have signed a petition in a bid to keep her on the same patch. Phil Lewis said: “To lose Helen, would, in our opinion, be beyond disastrous for our community. …

At 221B Baker Street is a museum devoted to that most famous of amateur detectives, Sherlock Holmes. Actually, there isn’t, but bear with me. Today there is a 221 Baker Street, but when the novels were written, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wisely chose a non-existent address, 221 Baker Street — …

More than 30 years after my first visit to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, I can still recall my awe as the last words died away in the darkness. The occasion was a school trip to see Romeo And Juliet, and I can’t pretend I understood every word. But …