Royal Mail is facing a summer of discontent as its union demands with a potential price tag of £1bn, even as it calls for shorter working weeks … Source link
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Port strike threatens months of disruption | Business
An eight-day strike at the Port of Felixstowe, Britain’s biggest gateway to global trade, could disrupt supplies to the nation’s supermarkets and exports by the country’s biggest industrial groups through to Christmas, experts are warning. There are fears that consumers could face fresh shortages of some goods and even higher …
Read More »A toxic but effective cure for gout pain | Health & wellbeing
I was surprised that your article on gout made no mention of colchicine, which I find clears up my gout in hours (I’m 35 and I have gout – and it’s not for the reasons you think, 18 August). Colchicine, in the form of the autumn crocus, was used as …
Read More »Hastings unites in a people’s assembly to confront the crisis
Hastings People’s Assembly. Photo: Michael Huggett Faced with multiple interlocking crises, unity in action is the only way we can effectively resist, writes Michael Huggett reporting on Saturday’s Hastings people’s assembly Evidence, if any were needed, of the power of local groups coming together in solidarity, was seen on Saturday …
Read More »Postman shocked as kid, 3, answers door and gives WAY too much information about what her mum is doing
THIS is the hilarious moment a little girl gives a postman a little TOO much information about what her mum is up to as a parcel is delivered. Ring Cam footage shows the postman, who has not been named, dropping off the post and a parcel. 2 The postie chats …
Read More »Royal family ‘kept in the dark over contents of Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir’
The contents of Prince Harry’s forthcoming tell-all memoir still remain a mystery, including to the Royal family who will get to read the book at the same time as the public. Sources allege neither Prince Charles nor Prince William, or their attorneys and advisers, have been given the opportunity to …
Read More »Hilarious moment, kid, 3, tells postman ‘mummy is upstairs having a poo’
A postman was left red-faced when he was out sending a parcel and told by a young girl that her mum was busy upstairs “having a poo”. The hilarious moment was captured on a door security camera when he came by to drop a parcel and some letters. In the …
Read More »The Daily Aubrey-Maturin: The Yellow Admiral (Book 18), Chapters 3-4 (pg. 5700-5756)
CHAPTER 3 Jack finally receives some orders, to join Admiral Stanraer’s blockade of Brest, but first, he has to take care of some local politics (some sort of land issue), which he does successfully, much to the delight of the common man (and less so to the delight of the …
Read More »Warrington Gun and Tackle in Woolston is for sale
A POPULAR Warrington shop which has been in operation for more than 40 years is up for sale. Warrington Tackle and Guns in Woolston is now on the market. Based on Parksway it sells bait, rods, lines, hooks, storage, guns and accessories and benefits from high levels of repeat custom. …
Read More »UK shut down thousands of retirees in Canada for failing to produce ‘proof of life’ | TBEN News
Thunder Bay native Barbara Reynolds lived and regularly paid her pension in the UK for 20 years before returning to Canada where she made another one-off payment to the UK government to top up her contributions. That didn’t stop her from worrying about paying her apartment rent in Halifax this …
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