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A family has been forced to leave their home after toilet water leaking into their kitchen led to their four-year-old daughter being hospitalised. The Harrow family of six were left unable to cook in the house and had to survive on food vouchers from Morrisons and takeaway meals because of …

Mitch McConnell will continue to do what he can Wednesday to block the Senate from passing a $2,000 stimulus check measure as the $600 payments included in the $900 billion coronavirus relief package will start appearing in Americans’ bank accounts as early as next week. The Senate will start debating …

EAST Lothian’s MSP has thanked the county’s Royal Mail staff for “going the extra mile” this year. Iain Gray visits a local delivery office each year to thank staff personally for delivering mail during the Christmas period, but is unable to this year due to Covid-19 social distancing guidelines. Instead, …

FTSE closes down 0.7% or 47 points at 6,556 after approval for Oxford’s Covid vaccine and vote passing post-Brexit deal were overshadowed by three quarters of UK being plunged into Tier 4 lockdown FTSE 100 index of biggest UK firms down by 0.71% or 47 points at 6,556 today Fall comes …

I have frequently been struck this year by how many times Amazon appeared in the magazine index – usually multiple mentions per issue, in every issue (including this one). It has been a similar story for other Faang stocks – or Fanmags as we should now call them – a clear …

Suffragette viscountess will get statue in her honour 100 years after she was jailed for blowing up post box in campaign for women’s vote Margaret Mackworth, known as Lady Rhondda, campaigned for women’s rights The suffragette, from Newport, once made a bomb and posted it in a letterbox Campaigners have …

The 260 overseas parcels lodged with NZ Post before the Christmas deadline are no longer stuck in New Zealand, and may make it to their destination before the tree comes down. Last week, NZ Post admitted that hundreds of presents were still sitting at NZ Post’s International Mail Centre despite …

Prince Harry has dropped the Queen’s English accent in favour of a more ‘slurring mid-Estuary’ twang in his new podcast with wife Meghan Markle, a British behaviour expert has claimed. The Duke, 36, and Duchess of Sussex, 39, today released their first Spotify podcast, calling on famous friends including Sir …

The Post Office has confirmed some major changes for anyone sending parcels to friends and family in the EU. Packages will now be required to go through a new procedure before being sent to EU countries. Unless they have the correct customs declaration documentation attached to them, they will be …

Boris Johnson will hail a new chapter in Britain’s history today as his EU trade deal goes before Parliament. On the eve of the landmark vote, Tory Eurosceptics announced they would support the agreement, finally ending decades of division in the party over Europe. Their move paves the way for …