“Keep up the fight” was the response of a postal worker at the Royal Mail’s Mount Pleasant sorting office in London to the campaign for the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee’s (PWRFC) next online Zoom meeting on Sunday, September 24 at 7pm. Over the past week hundreds of copies of the …
Read More »Hunt’s plans for Canada-style pension pots risk leaving savers worse off
However, superior returns may only arise in very old age, according to research commissioned by the Association for British Insurers, an industry trade body. Its model found that if a worker starts saving into a CDC scheme at the age of 30, by their 75th birthday they would have an …
Read More »Royal Mail post plane scrapped
Majority of Manx post to come by sea from October The majority of Manx mail will no longer be delivered to the Isle of Man by air. The Royal Mail post plane will stop flying items on 16 October. However a guaranteed next-day service, for priority mail to the UK, …
Read More »Princess of Wales pulls a mischievous face as she’s searched by prison guard on royal visit to HMP High Down – as she’s seen with bandaged fingers after ‘falling at home while trampolining with her children’
The Princess of Wales was spotted with a mischievous grin on her face this afternoon as she was searched by a prison guard and a drug detection dog during her royal visit to a male prison in Surrey. Kate Middleton, who had her fingers strapped following a trampolining injury, sat …
Read More »Council leader concerned about ‘shockingly bad’ post service
Frustrated residents raised concerns in July about the impact of these delays on their daily lives, including missed medical appointments, delayed communications, and mounting inconvenience. In response to the grievances, a Royal Mail spokesperson at the time acknowledged the delays and expressed regret to the affected residents. Despite this, many are still facing the …
Read More »Cowdenbeath: Royal Mail update MSP on Christmas planning
Ms Ewing met staff at the depot and heard how they were already getting organised for the festive season. “The Christmas period may seem a long way off for most of us – particularly as temperatures are still hitting highs normally associated with midsummer – but the Royal Mail’s delivery …
Read More »Former post office and nightclub goes up for auction
One of the most prominent buildings in Bangor has gone up for sale. The historic former post office and night club on Deiniol Road will go under the hammer at the start of next month. The imposing Grade II listed building was built in 1909. and served as the city’s …
Read More »Sinkhole the size of a car opens up on London street nearly swallowing post box | UK | News
A sinkhole capable of swallowing a small car has appeared on a London street forcing residents to surround it with wheelie bins to stop someone falling in. The cavernous crater opened up on Dunvegan Road, in Eltham, Greenwich, on Monday – just on the corner of the road, close to …
Read More »Dancer scouted for Royal Ballet School at 11 tells Panorama how class nutritionist told her ‘don’t eat carbs’ and she’d sleep with clingfilm on her legs ‘to sweat it out’ after teachers commented about weight
A young dancer said a nutritionist at a top ballet school told her to stop eating carbs to make her lose weight. India Thompson told a Panorama investigation the so-called expert at the Royal Ballet School had at first admitted she had a good diet. But because teachers had wanted …
Read More »Derby’s ‘crumbling’ La Gondola restaurant to be demolished after appeal granted
The La Gondola restaurant on Osmaston Road will be demolished, it appears, after an appeal by the developers against the council’s rejection of their application was granted. Derby City Council’s planning committee rejected the plans for 42 new flats to replace the “crumbling” La Gondola building in January, on the …
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