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Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable is to step down as an MP at the next election, the party has announced. The news will spark a scramble for Cable’s Twickenham seat, with newly-defected Lib Dem MPs Chuka Umunna and Sarah Wollaston thought likely to be at the head of …

Developers of a housing complex are giving the community the chance to christen it. And the person who chooses the winning name will get a £200 prize and will be able to attend the grand opening. McCarthy and Stone says construction is set to begin for the 70 extra care …

In its 10th anniversary year, the Strategic Mailing Partnership has joined the Postcode Address File (PAF) Advisory Board. The move coincides not only with the SMP’s anniversary but with the 60th birthday of the postcode system itself. The seat will be taken by Judith Donovan CBE, Chair of the SMP, …

There was no Fringe number above the City Chambers last week, but there was obvious comedy in Labour councillors dutifully conceding that their leader needed help to keep the city coalition “on track” for the six weeks of council leader Adam McVey’s adoption leave, and in Lib Dems voting it …

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1053/29477 From The Socialist newspaper, 28 August 2019 photo Paul Mattsson   (Click to enlarge) Gary Clark, CWU branch secretary (personal capacity) The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has held briefings over terms and conditions, firstly jointly with Parcelforce reps and then with all the senior Royal Mail …

This is the graffiti artist who’s upset the Queen by scrawling HELCH in 60ft high white letters near Windsor Castle, his friends claim. Michael Purdy is the spray painter behind the Helch tag daubed across bridges and Tube station, the Home Counties and most recently Bristol, they say. The 27-year-old …

Royal rip off! How YOU paid nearly $60,000 for flights for Prince Harry and Meghan to travel around Australia in style during their first tour of the country as a married couple Prince Harry and Meghan Markle cost taxpayers almost $60,000 for their flights  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex …

The latest headlines in your inbox The latest headlines in your inbox Stamps celebrating England’s Cricket World Cup winners are to go on sale next month. Photos of the men’s and women’s national teams have been printed onto eight first class stamps, which will be available from September 26. The …

Increasingly, people on the right seem to think their sharpest weapon against liberals is to slander them with incongruous slurs that they are “too PC”, that they are “snowflakes” or even “overzealously woke”. You know your arguments are running dry when you try to insult people by claiming they’re too …

Meet Britain’s first wrestling postman who delivers his letters and parcels in a WWE-style Royal Mail outfit. Ryan Williams, 30, does his rounds in cut off sleeves showing off his massive guns which he uses in the ring. The Royal Mail worker, from Cheltenham competes under the South West Wrestling …