A man accused of murdering his brother-in-law claimed an attack on him by the alleged victim nine years earlier was the beginning of all his “problems”. Finlay MacDonald, 41, said he was humiliated and left with low self-esteem after John MacKinnon reportedly assaulted him in 2013. MacDonald told his murder …
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Since news broke that the Post Office could be closing a large number of its branches, the public has been considering how they would feel if their local branch was to close. The Post Office could be set to close 115 “loss-making” branches across the UK putting more than 1000 …
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Royal Mail has suspended deliveries to a tower block in South Lanarkshire after two postal workers were reportedly threatened by a tenant with a dog. Residents of Clyde Tower in East Kilbride have been notified their mail will now have to be collected from their nearest Post Office, around a …
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A man has died after being attacked by a shark off the coast of a remote island to the east of New Zealand. Jade Kahukore-Dixon had been diving off a boat in the Bay of Waitangi, near Chatham Island, when he was injured by the shark, local media reports said. …
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A storekeeper is hoping the major restructuring of The Post Office will be an opportunity for smaller post offices to be installed in existing shops. The Post Office has announced transformation plans, which involve the potential closure of 115 branches, including Grimsby’s on Victoria Street South. All are its larger …
Read More »The King Charles III Atlantic Salmon 50p sparked a mini bidding war amid coin collectors on the auction site, as 37 bids were made on the rare coin before it sold for £123. The Royal Mint named the coin as the rarest currently in circulation in the UK in September, with …
Read More »The cabinet at Brighton and Hove City Council approved the leasehold grant of the site in Patcham Court Farm at a meeting on Wednesday afternoon. The lease will be for a term of 250 years of the site to Royal Mail for the provision of a 4,145sqm delivery office. Residents in Patcham have been fighting …
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University of the West of Scotland (UWS) bestowed an honorary doctorate upon Angela Noon OBE, group chief financial officer of Spectris PLC, during its winter graduation ceremony at Paisley Abbey on 15 November. In addition to her position as CFO of precision instrumentation and controls group Spectris PLC, Ms Noon …
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Two Metropolitan Police officers have been charged with sexually assaulting a woman while off duty. Jerome Beasley, 41, and Luke Robinson, 39, who work in the force’s Central West Command Unit, are set to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. They are each accused of four counts of sexual …
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This Friday marks the anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. As they set off for Dallas that morning, President Kennedy said to his wife Jackie: ‘You know, we’re heading into nut country today.’ Hundreds of books have been written about what happened next. …
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