Gordon Brown faces growing pressure from mutinous Labour backbenchers to ditch or delay moves to partly privatise Royal Mail. Party whips have warned the Prime Minister, who is already dealing with the “smeargate” scandal, that the plans have stretched the loyalty of his MPs to breaking point. Lord Mandelson, the …

Record numbers depending on food stampsGreat Falls Tribune, MTAP • April 20, 2009 More than 1 in 11 Montanans now use food stamps to help cover their grocery bills. At the start of April, they received a record $10.6 million in food stamp benefits. It was the first time food stamp …

mccausland on track for post office deadlineQuad City Times, IAmccausland, Iowa — Construction on a permanent US Post Office must be finished by Aug. 8 in mccausland, but that date doesn't appear to be a problem. Postal officials at an April 10 meeting notified the city that it has 120 days, …

Supervisors Endorse Plan To Reform Food Stamp ProgramKGTV, 10News.com, CASAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors Tuesday to make it easier for people to get and use food stamps. The reforms include outreach programs that engage area grocers, farmers, distributors, senior centers and schools in order to … …

Plan to get more people on food stamps approvedSan Diego Union Tribune, CA… (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer Faced with a backlog of applicants and pressure from advocacy groups to do a better job, county supervisors on Tuesday approved a three-year plan to get more people enrolled in the federal food stamp …

Mumbai, Apr 21 (UNI) eBay India (www.eBay.in), India’s leading online marketplace, today announced a partnership with Kings XI Punjab to bring IPL merchandise to cricket lovers across the globe. More: continued here

The Government will lose hundreds of millions of pounds on its plan to partprivatise the Royal Mail because of the timing of its controversial proposals a new report claims today. More: continued here

COLBORNE — Northumberland OPP were on the scene today investigating a break and enter at the Colborne Post Office that occurred sometime overnight Apr. 20.[…] More: continued here

eBay is holding a 1-day sale today on auction-style listings for sellers with minimum DSRs (Detailed Seller Ratings), which are anonymous feedback ratings left for sellers by their trading partners. More: continued here

THE Government will lose hundreds of millions of pounds on its plan to part-privatise the Royal Mail because of the timing of its controversial proposals, a report claimed tod More: continued here