About 300 people with accompanying music and led by the CWU contingent, who are engaged in strikes across Royal Mail and BT, weaved their way from the Royal Mail offices in Fenton Street around town for a rally in Dalton Square to hear and cheer on speakers. Joining them was …
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The pound’s fall could see overseas investors’ share of investment in Scottish commercial property reach record levels, after data for the first three quarters of the year showed they account for more than half of current volumes. Commercial property consultancy Knight Frank found that Investment volumes in Scottish commercial property …
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WACO System (WACO) has appointed Oceanica International as its member for Central America. The Costa Rica headquartered freight forwarder will be The WACO System’s member for all business relating to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Costa Rica. Richard Charles, Chief Executive Officer at WACO said: “WACO recognises the …
Read More »PLAID Cymru MS for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Mabon ap Gwynfor, joined striking postal workers on the picket line outside the Royal Mail Delivery Office in Dolgellau last week. Members of the Communications and Workers Union (CWU), which represents many Royal Mail workers, are striking regarding an unagreed two per cent pay …
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Support staff at Carlisle College have been balloted by their trade union over a pay deal. An offer of 2.5 per cent and a pro-rata £500 lump sum has been made for admin, cleaning, catering and maintenance workers at the further education site during a cost-of-living crisis that has seen …
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Dozens of Royal-themed colourful scarecrows went on display around Brent Knoll over the weekend during the village’s annual scarecrow festival. More than 40 scarecrows were on show alongside roadsides, gardens and paths on Saturday and Sunday. The festival – which was held in aid of Girl Guiding Brent Knoll – …
Read More »A BUSINESS owner is concerned postal strikes will mean her customers may not get to send packages to loved ones this Christmas. Sam Luxford runs NaviStitch, in Manningtree High Street, selling nautical art and greeting cards that are hand stitched onto navigation charts. Royal Mail workers are to hold a further …
Read More »TRIBUTES have flown in to the ‘Royal Mail’s number one postie’. Royal Mail vans lined the streets of Barrow to bid farewell to a much-loved postie and dad who tragically died. Crowds of people filled Cemetery Hill on Tuesday to applaud the late Stuart Metcalfe who died suddenly at the …
Read More »Lewis Hamilton has managed to avoid a fine for wearing a nose stud in the qualifier for today’s Singapore Grand Prix however, Mercedes has been charged 25,000 euros (£22,000) for wrongly declaring that the British driver would follow Formula One’s jewellery ban. The FIA, F1’s governing body, has clamped down …
Read More »One in two workers plan to look for a new job in response to the cost-of-living crisis, research has suggested. A survey of 2,300 adults in professional jobs by CV-Library found that more than one in four is already trying to get better paid work, while one in 10 said …
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