The Strategic Mailing Partnership (SMP) has revealed the winners of its 2024 Awards, recognising the outstanding performances of the UK’s leading mailing houses, printers, print managers, and agencies. The winners were announced at the SMP Awards evening at The Steel Yard in London on 26 September, hosted by the talented …
Read More »Ex-Fujitsu boss admits Post Office meetings where Horizon discussed
The former boss of Fujitsu UK has admitted having four meetings with Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells, some of which included discussing Fujitsu’s Horizon IT system. Previous media reports had indicated that Michael Keegan, the husband of former Conservative minister Gillian Keegan, only met Ms Vennells once and that …
Read More »Martin Lewis’ MSE issues ‘one week’ warning before price of £1.35 item increases
The cost of stamps is set to increase by 22% in a week’s time, meaning standard first class stamps will cost £1.65, following an earlier price hike in October 2023 People have been warned they have a week to buy stamps before their prices increase by 30p. The price of …
Read More »Video shows Evri driver attacking customer’s dogs with mop through letterbox
A usually ‘friendly and happy’ Evri delivery driver has been sacked after he was caught on camera shoving a wooden mop through a customer’s letterbox to ‘hit’ her beloved Labradors. Zoe Mitchell says the ‘happy chap’ driver has been her regular for around five years so was stunned when her …
Read More »Plans approved for redevelopment of former Royal Mail site at Maidstone East
Maidstone Borough Council (MBC) Planning Committee last night approved plans for the redevelopment of the Former Royal Mail Sorting Office site, at Maidstone East, for mixed-use development which is predominantly residential. The development will include 180 apartments, 1,863 square metres of commercial and/or community space and around one acre of …
Read More »Post Office ditches MoneyGram after cyber attack
MoneyGram services will no longer be available in thousands of Post Office branches from today, as its contract renewal is cancelled in the wake of a major cyber securuty incident. A new contract between the companies was set to begin this week, but following the major cyber security incident at MoneyGram …
Read More »Video shows Evri driver attacking customer’s dogs with mop through letterbox
A usually ‘friendly and happy’ Evri delivery driver has been sacked after he was caught on camera shoving a wooden mop through a customer’s letterbox to ‘hit’ her beloved Labradors. Zoe Mitchell says the ‘happy chap’ driver has been her regular for around five years so was stunned when her …
Read More »Somerset planning: Students’ sculpture to get permanent home
A permanent home for a statue by Weston-super-Mare students inspired by the Knife Angel, knocking through a wall in Bath’s iconic Royal Crescent, and putting solar panels on a major leisure centre are among the schemes people are trying to get planning permission for in Bath and North East Somerset …
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4 Oct 2024 – Elevenses with Tom Parker Bowles Published: 30th September 2024 20:38 In conversation and book signing event – Elevenses with Tom Parker Bowles Tom Parker Bowles has been an award-winning food writer for over twenty years, is the author of eight books on food (including …
Read More »Changes made to new homes at prime York site
CHANGES have been made to several new homes being built at a prime York site. Several eagle-eyed readers of The Press spotted that newly fitted lintels above the front doors of homes on the new Persimmon Bootham Crescent development had been exposed ready for removal. Persimmon says the changes to …
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