Royal Mail

Cleaners protest outside the hospital (Pic: Twitter/Helen O’Connor) Several groups of workers have taken the issue of coronavirus safety into their own hands. Royal Mail workers in South West London walked out last week over the lack of hand gels and wipes to protect them from the virus. Postal workers, …

Boris Johnson plunged Britain into an extraordinary lockdown today – urging everyone in the country to stop all ‘non-essential’ contact with others. The PM warned that the coronavirus was now in a phase of rapid spread across the UK, with London seeing a particular surge, and it was time to …

Royal Mail has set out their new procedures for delivering goods that usually need a signature. They say that Public Health England (PHE) has advised that people receiving parcels are not at risk of contracting the coronavirus assing that from experience with other coronaviruses, they know that these types of …

Which European countries are in the Schengen free-travel area? The 26 Schengen countries are:  Austria Belgium Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland The EU today revealed plans to shut itself off …

A number of UK retailers and delivery companies have announced new rules for how couriers behave on the doorstep as the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic grows in severity. Despite the UK government only telling people who show symptoms to stay at home, many citizens are changing their behaviour to avoid travelling, …

The #CloseTheSchoolsNow hashtag is trending on Twitter as increasing numbers of parents and pupils are sharing their concerns about their family members going into schools and colleges across the UK. It follows a Department of Health announcement that some 35 people in the UK have now died after testing positive …

Royal Mail have made changes to their doorstep delivery amidst the coronavirus pandemic. The company posted on their website: “In order to protect both our people and customers as much as possible, we will not be handing over our hand-held devices to customers to capture signatures. Postmen and women will …

NHS hospitals could run out of oxygen within hours if hit by a wave of coronavirus patients, experts have warned as the UK’s crisis rapidly worsens. Gas suppliers have been told to quadruple production to help hospitals prepare and military drivers may be requisitioned to do the deliveries. The coronavirus …

Bentley has taken the wraps of the Mulliner Bacalar, its first two seater in decades. Just 12 of these will be built, each one of which has already been sold. The name comes from the Laguna Bacalar in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, a lake famous for its natural beauty. This is …

A hand gel producer that has received online abuse over its price hikes says the cost of some of the raw ingredients have shot up 700 per cent since the coronavirus outbreak. Staff at Jennychem, a British industrial chemicals firm, have been labelled “crooks” and “parasites” for doubling the price …