Royal Mail is pulling out all the stops in its seasonal drive to deliver Christmas to its customers. Today the business announced it is recruiting 16,000 temporary workers to help its 85,000 posties sort the additional mail and increasing number of parcels the company expects to process over the festive …
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A debate is set to take place over the Welsh form of a Flintshire village’s name amid concerns over its English translation. New Brighton, near Mold, is known locally in Welsh as Pentre Cythraul, but the place-name has never been formally recognised. Residents launched a bid in 2019 to have it …
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A Royal Mail postbox in central London. — AFP/File A woman in Lincolnshire applied for her dream job and never received a response, she found out why. Just 48 years later. A resident of Gedney Hill in Lincolnshire, Tizi Hodson, was having a normal day until the point when she opened …
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Princess Eugenie has been praised for ‘getting on with it’ as she reveals she made a secret visit to a charity last Monday. Princess Eugenie has said she’s ‘grateful’ to have made a secret stop at the Salvation Army last week to meet with survivors of modern slavery – and royal …
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Over 100,000 Royal Mail employees will now receive a cash lump sum and an income in retirement thanks to the launch of the UK’s first Collective Defined Contribution pension plan. In partnership with the Communications Workers Union (CWU) and Unite CMA, Royal Mail worked to design a scheme that provides …
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A gaming enthusiast was left seething after his £270 Nintendo Switch parcel was abandoned in the rain. Tom Newborn had been eagerly anticipating his return home from work to play on his new console and game, which he had pre-ordered months in advance. He was taken aback when he discovered …
Read More »The price of a first class stamp has risen by 30p today (October 7). The cost of a stamp has now reached an eye watering £1.65, as reported by The Sunday Times. It is the seventh price rise in five years, with the cost almost doubling since March 2022, when …
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The King’s doctors are allowing him to ‘pause’ his cancer treatment in order to fly to Australia for a high-profile royal visit next week. The 75-year-old monarch will undertake a significant official visit beginning on October 18, taking in Sydney and Canberra, immediately followed by a State Visit to Samoa …
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In Canton, police have opened an inquiry after witnesses claimed to have heard gunshots. Just before 4 p.m. on Sunday, according to the Canton Fire Department, they were called to the Arboretum Way apartments in reference to reports of a gunshot. Chief Wendell Robery said members of his crew offered …
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