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The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Cunard of Glasgow which was lost at Tuskar Rock in 1872. County Wexford’s five RNLI lifeboat stations will share in the proceeds of a fundraising maritime exhibition which will be hosted by Rosslare Harbour Maritime Heritage Centre in the Stella Maris Centre in Kilmore Quay …

C ash transactions dipped in July, in signs that people were tightening their belts or curbed their spending due to the poor weather, according to the Post Office. The Post Office handled £3.33 billion in transactions in July, slightly down on £3.35 billion in June. Personal cash withdrawals totalled £815 …

Brokers said homeowners coming to the end of fixed-rate deals over the last 18 months have increasingly turned to short-term fixed-rate loans on the expectation that interest rates would soon be falling again. David Hollingworth, of L&C Mortgages, said the proportion of homeowners locking in rates for only two years …

Tributes have been paid to a soldier believed to be the last Royal Navy veteran of the Dunkirk evacuation who has died aged 102. Lawrence Churcher was posted to HMS Eagle at the start of World War Two and landed in France in May 1940 to help get ammunition to …

A female prison officer who had phone sex with an inmate after they formed a relationship at the jail where she worked has been handed a 12-month sentence. Katie Loxton, 27, met inmate Adam Higgs, 32, when she was working as a prison custody officer at HMP Oakwood in Staffordshire. …

The number of working days lost to strikes has hit the highest level since the late 1980s. Some 3.9 million working days have been lost to industrial action in the past year, the highest annual figure since the 4.1m days lost in 1989. The figure illustrates the scale of public …

Part one of this article was published August 11 The Socialist Workers Party are expert at providing tame “left-wing” criticisms of the labour and trade union bureaucracy, while serving to politically block any independent movement of the working class. The SWP’s long-established theory of the trade unions is one that …

Offshore trust loophole hides oligarchs’ cash Treasury says it is against identifying beneficiaries of trusts without consultation  Surprise move follows the introduction of transparency rules  Offshore firms with property in England and Wales must name ultimate owner By Patrick Tooher Published: 16:50 EDT, 13 August 2023 | Updated: 16:50 EDT, …

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Lawrence Churcher, who was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, died at a care home in nearby Fareham, just days short of his 103rd birthday, according to the Project 71 charity which supports Second World War veterans. The charity, which said Mr Churcher was thought to be the last known naval veteran …