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Royal Mail faces £1bn showdown with union: As company loses £1m a day, CWU barons demand more pay for doing less work Series of strikes looming at Royal Mail as UK’s summer of discontent worsens Postal giant claims it is being held to ransom by a union ‘stuck in the …

It’s not every day that you get mail from a royal, but if we did, we would be sure to tell everyone about it. And that was exactly what royal follower @ChristinsQueens did on Twitter, when she received a special piece of correspondence from none other than Camilla Parker Bowles. …

Royal Mail workers are set to take strike action this Friday (August 26). Postal workers are embroiled in a dispute with the company over both pay and working conditions. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have also voted overwhelmingly to take further action, with 98.7 per cent voting in …

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Workers at the UK’s biggest container port at Felixstowe have voted to launch an eight-day strike which could affect £675 million worth of trade It is the latest outbreak of industrial action to hit a growing number of sectors of the economy, including rail, Royal Mail, and telecommunications. Port workers …

A SECOND World War hero from Warrington died before being able to accept two prestigious awards for his devoted service to the country. Ernest Morris, who lived in Croft, was to receive the ‘High Sheriff’s Award’ on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen for his ‘services to the community’ as well …

Arts centre of attention: the Fairfield Halls refurbishment project cost at least £67m, but no one, not even special investigators, seems to know how all the money was used EXCLUSIVE: Council says its specialist investigators have yet to find anything around the £67m botched refurbishment of the arts centre which …

Plus the latest on rogue landlords, emergency funding for buses, the end of an e-bike scheme that has just got going. In the news this week, workers across a number of industries in Bristol will strike this week, in response to a 40-year inflation high of 10.1% resulting in real-terms …

Is the London Underground going to be running? (Picture: Getty) Travel chaos as once again rained down on the UK, as more national rail strikes take place today (Saturday, August 20). Transport for London (TfL) staff also took industrial action this week, too – staging a walk-out that started yesterday, …