Royal Mail

You will have to agree, when home quarantining and travel restrictions has been the order of the year, it would be a great idea to get your fill of travel with postcards and stamps. Philatelists and postcard hoarders cannot brag enough about the thrill you get from collectng these. But …

A 184,537 sq ft distribution centre at Mountpark Warrington Omega has been leased to intralogistics provider Jungheinrich. The company is planning to use the unit to bring together its four existing facilities in the North West, including the regional sales and service centre. “The UK is an important growth market …

TWO of Cumbria’s most well-known and internationally recognised artists have been invited to show at the summer exhibition of the prestigious Royal Academy in London. Conrad Atkinson is showing a machine-embroidered work called ‘Vincent’s Ear Uncovered and Euphonious Wound, from the Metropolitan Museum New York’. A work commissioned for his …

Some people starting growing their own vegetables during lockdown earlier this year. Others got into sour dough bread, while others reorganized and cleaned up their living quarters like never before. Most just drank, ate and binge-watched more. Not Alton Tyrell, though. The Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, UK resident owns a van …

Kate and William’s new look website! Royal Foundation page is given a sleek update complete with supersized photos and a personalised logo to coincide with the Earthshot Prize launch Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have updated their Royal Foundation website The couple revamped the site to include larger photos and …

A boyfriend murdered a one-year-old baby in a horrific attack after her mother had been warned that it was not safe to leave the child with him, a jury has been told. Jamie Chadwick, 22, is accused of murdering Oriana Crilly-Cifrova, the daughter of his girlfriend Chelsea Crilly, 20, in …

Dramatic video shows Royal Navy jets ‘attacking’ HMS Queen Elizabeth in an exercise as the £3billion aircraft carrier’s crew test their defences. Cockpit footage shows the Navy’s Hawk jet maritime aggressor squadron simulating ‘bad guy’ missile attacks on the massive aircraft carrier, which at 930ft long is the joint biggest …

Plans to address a council’s slave trade links have been unveiled by a Lambeth councillor. To mark Black History Month, Lambeth’s Cabinet Member for Equalities and Culture has proposed a poll on road name changes and reviewing schools’ curricula. CAMPAIGNING: Sonia Winifred says links to slave trade must be addressed …

When the Royal Mail wanted to make faster deliveries around London in the early 20th century, the Post Office Railway was their solution. According to Atlas Obscura, the system was inspired by Chicago’s subterranean freight system.  So, in 1927, the system opened for operation. It was an automatic electric railway …

Ocado claims its CNG delivery trucks will help slash the firm’s CO2 emissions | Credit: Ocado Ocado is expanding its fleet of CNG-fuelled trucks, while Amazon has unveiled its first custom designed electric delivery van Online supermarket Ocado is forging ahead with plans to draw down the emissions of its …