Video has emerged showing hundreds of people attended a community cricket match in a district of Leicester hardest hit by the resurgent Coronavirus. The organised game, in which two local teams competed for a trophy, was watched by large crowds, who did not appear to observe social distancing rules. The …
Read More »Plans for 15-unit Tonbridge Trade Park on former Colas site on Vale Road approved
A long-derelict patch of land could be brought back into use after a plans for a trade park were approved by councillors. The former Colas site in Tonbridge, next to the Royal Mail delivery office, has been empty for almost 30 years. The site of the proposed Tonbridge Trade Park …
Read More »Murdered pregnant mum was stabbed 21 times, court hears
A jealous man killed his heavily pregnant ex-girlfriend and their unborn baby in a ‘vicious and cowardly’ knife attack – stabbing her 21 times, a court heard. Aaron McKenzie, 26, allegedly broke into Kelly Fauvrelle’s ground floor bedroom at her Raymead Avenue home in Thornton Heath last June as she …
Read More »How Marie Claire is supporting an end to period plastic
For far too long, we have been allowing plastic sanitary products to destroy our planet. Marie Claire is supporting a campaign to change that When it comes to the beauty industry, period products contain up to 90 per cent plastic and take over 500 years to break down. It is …
Read More »Princess Diana’s chef reveals she didn’t enjoy celebrating birthday’s
Princess Diana’s former chef has revealed she didn’t enjoy celebrating her birthday – as it meant getting ‘another year older’. Today marks the late Princess of Wales’ 59th birthday, and Darren McGrady, 58, who cooked for the late Princess of Wales for four years from 1993 before her death in August …
Read More »Boris Johnson news live: Follow latest updates as UK offer new route to citizenship for Hong Kongers
China: MPs demand economic policy change MPs have demanded that Britain reconsider its economic relationship with China. Sir Iain Duncan Smith said: “We run to China to buy goods and to invest, it is time for us now to review every single programme here in the UK and around the free …
Read More »UK high street suffers jobs bloodbath
Thousands of jobs have been axed across the UK high street as the government starts to wind down its £25bn furlough scheme that has kept millions of workers employed during the pandemic. As Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs on Wednesday lunchtime that his government would “build, build, build and …
Read More »Royal Mail new Chief Commercial Officer announces Inflight delivery options
Royal Mail appear to have a new Chief Commercial Officer and one of his first actions has been to announce new Inflight delivery options for Royal Mail Tracked 24 and 48 hour services. Not before time either, during the Coronavirus lock down more consumers than ever before have been at …
Read More »Cars trapped after tree falls in Midhurst car park
The tree wasblocking access to the vehicle exit at the car park Chichester District Council was alerted on Friday afternoon (June 26) to the fallen tree in the Royal Mail car park on Grange Road. The tree was blocking access to the vehicle exit. A council spokesperson said: “Staff from …
Read More »Rishi Sunak likely to raise taxes once economy gets back to ‘near normal’, Institute for Fiscal Studies predicts
Tax rises are likely to be ordered by Chancellor Rishi Sunak when the economy gets back to “near normal”, an economic watchdog predicted today. Carl Emmerson, deputy director of the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies, spoke out in the wake of Boris Johnson’s speech which pledged to fast-track construction schemes …
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