Charac, an NHS-integrated one-stop platform for independent community pharmacies, has secured £1 million strategic investment from the Royal Mail Group, enabling its time-saving platform to assist more local pharmacies and patients across the UK to easily manage their prescriptions and consultations online. The company said this new money will enable …
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Royal Mail has launched a new business division, named Royal Mail Health, following the increased demand for healthcare products to be delivered directly to customers’ homes. ‘) } // –> In 2021, Royal Mail worked with businesses including online pharmacy company Pharmacy2U to trial same-day delivery of ‘over-the-counter’ medicines and …
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Industrial action will affect larger Crown branches, typically in city centres, run directly by Post Office. Photo: Peter Cziborra/Reuters Post Office workers will walk out on 11 July in what will be the third strike this year in a dispute over pay. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at …
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A MILLINER has had her hard-work recognised after a hat crafted in her workshop won accolades at a national event and praise in the media. Tracy Wells, an Ulverston-based hat maker, made an exquisite headpiece for Ampika Pickston, former Real Housewives of Cheshire star. The TV personality had asked social …
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Monday 27 June 2022 6:00 pm The postal service braces itself for a summer of disruption as Royal Mail goes to the ballots tomorrow morning and the union representing Post Office staff confirmed its July strike action this afternoon. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is set to dish out letters …
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Antalis Packaging is holding a webinar later this week about sustainable packaging, the new Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT), and design innovations for the future. The session, ‘Unpackaging Your Sustainability Challenges: Smart Packaging Design, Innovation and Solutions’, is taking place at 10am on Friday 1 July. The aim of the …
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Prince Christian of Denmark has left his boarding school after it was hit by a sex abuse scandal, but the question remains: where will the future king continue his studies? Concerned parents Crown Prince Frederick and Crown Princess Mary pulled their son out of Herlufsholm Boarding School in Næstved, south of …
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News Workers in other industries have seen the success of the rail workers strikes and want to take action as well By Nick Clark Downloading PDF. Please wait… Monday 27 June 2022 Issue 2811 Striking barristers gather in London The rail strikes have added fresh fuel to the push for …
Read More »About 1,500 Post Office workers are to stage a further one-day strike in a dispute over pay, adding to a wave of national industrial action causing disruption in the UK this summer. Britain’s 114 Crown Post Offices, its larger branches often located on high streets, are to close on Monday …
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For most of us who live near or drive past East Midlands Airport, the sound of jet engines is a regular feature of our daily lives. As the summer season brings the usual holiday boom, the noise of planes taking off and coming in to land only gets more frequent. …
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