A Tory MP has pledged to refund anyone caught out by a postal mix-up involving undelivered mail. A number of people paid £2.50 at Wrexham sorting office only to find the envelope awaiting collection was a campaign letter from Sarah Atherton, the city’s MP. She has apologised for the inconvenience …
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Photo: Joel Kowsky (AP) A ransomware gang is threatening to release SpaceX’s prized business secret: the design of its rockets. The Lockbit gang claimed it breached Maximum Industries, a fabricator of rocket parts for Elon Musk’s rocket company based in Texas, and pilfered “3,000 drawings” from the contractor, according to …
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Finnish delivery and fulfillment company Posti has installed 38 Flow Projectors from Prime Vision at two of its sorting centers near Helsinki and Turku that will help speed up parcel sorting. The machines project numbers onto parcels, so employees can see at a glance where to sort the parcels to, …
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New stamps featuring King Charles III look different to the previous ones with the late Queen Elizabeth. The new 10-stamp set is a nod to His Majesty’s love of gardening and celebrates the nation’s favourite flowers. But unlike the old ones featuring the Queen’s silhouette facing left, Charles is turned …
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Around 50,000 people took part in a national demonstration of striking workers in London on Wednesday. School, university, and London Underground workers, plus junior doctors, assembled in Hyde Park before marching to Trafalgar Square. Government workers staged their own demonstration, gathering at Embankment before joining the main rally. Striking workers …
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The search for an operator to run a post office in Portishead is continuing – due to no one wanting to take on the job. The Post Office – the only one in the town – closed this in January after McColls in the High Street, where it was based, …
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Proposals for a £50m regeneration scheme for Maidstone town centre have been unveiled. The first artist’s impressions of Maidstone council’s plans to redevelop the former Royal Mail Sorting Office near Maidstone East were shown at a public exhibition at The Kent History and Library Centre yesterday. The town houses would …
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Union Matters March 15 2023 In the photo (left to right): Sean McGinley, Michael Powell and Dan Biddulph Activists are set to launch a campaign for full trade union recognition with the trade tool retail giant, following a sustained recruitment campaign at the company’s Stoke-on-Trent warehouse… “There are …
Read More »In preparation for spring, the pack of 10 stamps feature some of the UK’s favourite blooms as well as the King’s silhouette. The colourful stamps come with a photo of the flower as well as their common name. The flowers used for the new set include: Sweet pea Iris Lily …
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STORY: The featured flowers include the sweet pea, iris, lily, sunflower, fuchsia, tulip, peony, nasturtium, rose and dahlia. The Royal Mail said the flowers are “some of the most popular flowers which are grown in gardens across the UK,” adding that they were the first stamps with the king’s silhouette. …
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