More disruption is expected across public services in the coming weeks as further industrial action takes place. Several days of strike action saw major services grind to a halt in December with nurses, ambulance crews, Royal Mail and train staff among those who walked out in disputes over pay and …
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WORKERS are at risk of losing their jobs because of the crippling rail strikes — with five more days of action starting tomorrow. Bosses may have to decide to shut up shop, with small firms caught up as “collateral damage” in long-running disputes. 1 Rail strikes are estimated to have …
Read More »Royal Mail is losing £1 million a day, and says delivering letters outside the Monday to Friday working week has become uneconomic. However, under the universal service obligation the postal service has to deliver letters to every address in the UK six days a week — and the government has …
Read More »Chrissie Brinton received a birthday card last Thursday. That might sound nice, but her birthday was a fortnight earlier. She and four other family members with December birth dates had to celebrate without the usual jolly notes from friends and relatives. They were collateral damage in a brutal industrial dispute …
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s attacks on the Royal Family in their recent Netflix series have led nearly half of Brits to think Harry should be stripped of his royal title according to a new poll. After their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey last year, the Sussexes made new allegations …
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A sensational claim that King Charles’s coronation could spark a constitutional crisis because of his confession of adultery has been dismissed by leading experts. On Friday, Anthony Holden, who wrote a biography of the King, sent a letter to The Guardian newspaper arguing that any coronation was likely to be …
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Lady Susan Hussey will reportedly be invited to King Charles’s coronation ceremony in May. It comes after the late Queen’s lady-in-waiting resigned from her honorary role after asking Ngozi Fulani, founder of domestic abuse charity Sistah Space, where she was “really from” at a Buckingham Palace reception last month. The …
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August saw the return of the Foyle Pride Festival. The aim of Foyle Pride Festival is to acknowledge, empower and celebrate the LGBT community in the Derry area of Northern Ireland as well as the wider LGBT community as a whole. It is a non-profit grassroots organisation that was formed in …
Read More »The former Royal Mail boss Rico Back has launched a withering attack on the company’s board, saying its chief executive lacked experience and had mishandled talks with the Communication Workers Union that led to strikes and chaos in the run-up to Christmas. Royal Mail has been locked for months in …
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Published by Amberley Publishing in July 2022 and written by John Jackson, this softcover book comes in the usual Amberley format of around 234 mm x 165 mm with 96 pages and 180 colour photographs. It has a published price of £15.99, but can be obtained online from Amberley Publishing …
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