Postal workers speak out against Communication Workers Union’s partnership with Royal Mail over punishing workloads: “The union has well and truly sold its members out”

UK postal workers have written in to outline their crippling workloads and Royal Mail’s trashing of its statutory obligation to deliver six days a week. Increased walks and impossible targets are being enforced by management intimidation and use of overtime to clear back logs, forcing postal workers into a longer …

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Lodge Hill A34 junction upgrade ‘vital’ for housing plans

The Vale of White Horse District Council is currently consulting plans to upgrade the Lodge Hill Interchange to the north of the town. Plans to improve the junction include building a new grade separated dumbell junction and the provision of a shared footway and cycleway. READ MORE: East Oxford residents slam ‘unacceptable’ …

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UK mother cruelly jailed for late abortion

The imprisonment of 44-year-old mother of three Carla Foster for inducing an abortion after the legal limit has exposed the UK’s archaic abortion legislation and highlighted the increasingly aggressive use of state power against society’s most vulnerable. Sentenced to 28 months by Justice Edward Pepperall, Foster will serve half of …

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