Time is running out for cash lovers to spend their £20 and £50 notes. The deadline to spend them is in just six months time. As of Wednesday, September 30, 2022, all paper notes will go out of circulation. After this, you are able to exchange them at the Bank …
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Top three-year-old Home Affairs continued his build up to a Royal Ascot assault with a quiet trial at Rosehill on Friday. Star colt Home Affairs wasn’t out to break records when cruising around in a Rosehill barrier trial on Friday. The Royal Ascot bound three-year-old was never out of second …
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29 April 2022 Transport / Logistics Services DPD France is rolling out 2,500 new parcel boxes at DPD Pickup retail outlets across the country. This comes in response to a surge in demand for e-commerce deliveries and the emergence of customer to customer (C2C) use of the DPD network. The parcel …
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Published: 11:30 AM April 28, 2022 A Staffordshire bull terrier owner has been acquitted of a dangerous dog charge after a Suffolk postman lost the tip of his finger when putting mail through a letterbox. Dog owner Jake Goddard, 36, was found not guilty of being in charge of a …
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A massive three-storey office block is set to be built close to the railway line at Middlebrook. Orbit Investments, who operate The Parklands commercial park, close to the Bolton Wanderers stadium, have submitted plans in the past week to build a ninth block at their site, which is just south …
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If it feels as though there has been an endless string of Bank Holidays recently then you’re in luck, as there are still three more to come in the next two months. Get ready for more time off work as we are set to enjoy a four day weekend in …
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Delegates at the Communication Workers Union’s annual conference say they are giving Royal Mail Group notice that if no national agreement on a “straight, no strings pay increase” can be reached by the week commencing May 2, 2022, then the union will move into a position of formal dispute with …
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CUMBRIAN post offices are warning local businesses and residents to be on the lookout for fraudulent £20 notes that they have intercepted in Barrow and Windermere. The Windermere Post Office on Crescent Road, and Barrow’s Happy Little Gift Company at Salthouse Post Office on Risedale Road have both discovered that …
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Published: 3:17 PM April 28, 2022 Bus drivers in London are to go on strike next month in a dispute over pay. Members of Unite who are employed by Arriva will walk out on May 11, and again for 48 hours from May 16. Unite said the action will involve …
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RHASS chief executive, Alan Laidlaw As the organisers of the Royal Highland Show look forward to the return of a bumper full-blown event in June to celebrate this year’s 200th anniversary of the first show, the publication of the organisation’s annual review for 2021 reflected on the way it had …
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