It was the year Band Aid rocked the world, the first Apple Macs were released and DNA profiling was developed, while Gremlins and Ghostbusters dominated the big screen. And 1984 was also the year Leo Fragale and his 180-strong cohort left Spalding Gleed Boys’ School (now Spalding Academy) for the …
Read More »CTI receives backing from UK pension schemes
Ten of the largest pension schemes in the UK have written a joint letter announcing their support for the Cost Transparency Initiative (CTI). The schemes endorsing the strategy, which includes the Royal Mail Pension Plan, Nest and the Universities Superannuation Scheme, represent over 19 million members who have more than …
Read More »Lib Dems announce parliamentary candidate for Houghton and Sunderland South
Paul Edgeworth has been named as the Lib Dem candidate in the Houghton and Sunderland South constituency. Mr Edgeworth, 31, was born and brought up in Sunderland and currently lives in Ashbrooke. He is a former pupil of both Southmoor Comprehensive School and St Robert of Newminster in Washington. He …
Read More »Last post for Todmorden Delivery Office
Published: 15:16 Thursday 05 September 2019 Royal Mail says no jobs will be lost after the relocation of Todmorden Delivery Office to Rochdale this week. Customers living in the OL14 postcode area will be able to collect items from there which could not be delivered first time from Todmorden Post …
Read More »Princess Charlotte smiles on first day of school different to brother Prince George looking nervous
Princess Charlotte has charmed the nation with her cheeky antics, even daring to stick her tongue out at cameras. But on her first day of school this morning she was on her best behaviour. Arriving at Thomas’s Battersea, where her brother George is two years above, four-year-old Charlotte clung to …
Read More »Ten schemes publicly back Cost Transparency Initiative
Duffield: We will work across the industry to encourage adoption Ten pension schemes representing over 19 million members and more than £150bn in assets under management have written a joint public letter endorsing the Cost Transparency Initiative (CTI). In the statement the ten schemes stated: “We believe that greater cost transparency …
Read More »Throwback Thursday: When rugby league had its own Royal Mail postage stamps
To mark the centenary of the historic meeting at the George Hotel in Huddersfield that led to the formation of rugby league in 1995, a range of stamps were issued. There were five different commemorative stamps, in tribute to Harold Wagstaff, Gus Risman, Jim Sullivan, Billy Batten and Brian Bevan. …
Read More »You can now see inside the ‘secret’ ballroom at one of Whitby’s most famous cafes
For generations of Whitby families, the ballroom at Mill’s Cafe was the place where memories were made. From 1928, the beautiful upstairs room in the Grade II-listed Georgian building on Baxtergate hosted wedding, christening, birthday, anniversary and Christmas parties. Cafe owner Lois Mee inside the newly-restored ballroom at Hetty & …
Read More »Royal fans are thrilled at ‘adorable’ Princess Charlotte’s first day at school
Stunned royal fans have taken to social media to compare Princess Charlotte to the Queen as she arrived for her first day of school today. The adorable Princess clutched her mother’s hand as her parents dropped her off for her first day at Thomas’s Battersea, the £18,915-a-year private institution in south London which big brother Prince …
Read More »Top pension schemes back industry cost reporting initiative | News
Ten of the UK’s largest pension schemes have expressed their support for the Cost Transparency Initiative (CTI), writing in a letter to its chair that they “believe that greater cost transparency will help everyone achieve a better income in retirement”. They said they intended to use the tools and cost …
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