Previously butterflies, bees and bugs have been illustrated on stamps. Featured on the new stamps are the: Sand Bear Spider; Cucumber Spider; Woodland Jumping Spider; Four-spotted Orbweb Spider; Spider Nurseryweb Spider; Ladybird Spider; Candy-striped Spider; Wasp Spider; Zebra Spider; and Heather Crab Spider. The Heather Crab Spider (Royal Mail/PA) David …
Read More »Spiders in the spotlight on new Royal Mail stamps
Royal Mail has revealed images of a set of 10 new stamps featuring original illustrations of spiders found in the UK. Previously butterflies, bees and bugs have been illustrated on stamps. Featured on the new stamps are the: Sand Bear Spider; Cucumber Spider; Woodland Jumping Spider; Four-spotted Orbweb Spider; Spider …
Read More »Could you apply for Pension Credit?
Over 1.4 million pensioners in Britain already receive Pension Credit but there are still many people who have not claimed. Preston City Council is encouraging anyone who may be eligible make a claim. Pension Credit helps people of State Pension age on low income with their living costs. However, you …
Read More »Debbie Abrahams elected as Work and Pensions Committee chair
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Read More »Royal Navy warship first to seize £160m of drugs from ‘narco sub’ in Caribbean
Portsmouth-based HMS Trent, working alongside the US Coast Guard (USCG) and a US maritime patrol aircraft, seized the semi-submersed vessel while it was 190 nautical miles south of the Dominican Republic. The operation seized 2,000kg of cocaine, bringing HMS Trent’s haul of narcotics in eight operations in seven months to …
Read More »Crush victims remembered with plaque
MEMORIAL: Anthony Baker. CHILDREN’S lives which were tragically lost more than a century ago in Barnsley town centre’s Public Hall disaster will be remembered tomorrow (Friday) when a plaque in their honour is unveiled. Part of the Barnsley Civic’s restoration – which used to be known as the Public Hall …
Read More »First look inside £500m development in Bristol’s Temple Quarter
A £500m project in Bristol is edging closer to completion as the main structure was completed today and the countdown to opening in two years’ time has commenced. The new Enterprise Campus at Temple Quarter, from the University of Bristol and part of the regeneration of the area, will open …
Read More »Medal haul for karate clubs
Martial artists from Barnsley have been busy with competitions taking place in Sheffield and London recently. There was a big medal haul at the British International Karate Championships at Ponds Forge in Sheffield. Steph Hudson took home a gold in para kata for the blind and visually impaired. Shoany Hudson …
Read More »Royal Mail post boxes stolen from Walsall, West Midlands
Two post boxes have been stolen in Walsall, Royal Mail has said, although the motive is unclear. The boxes were taken from Lime Grove, Rushall and Stonnall Road, Aldridge, but Royal Mail said it was unknown if the incidents were linked. The organisation said the thefts had been reported to …
Read More »Driver jailed after death of teenager in car park
SUSSEX POLICE Leonie Grace Jones was killed in a car park in Gossops Green, near Crawley A man has been jailed for six years for causing the death by dangerous driving of an 18-year-old woman in a car park. Leonie Grace Jones was killed in the Gossops Green area in …
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