A warning has been issued to shoppers who still uses cash to pay when out at supermarkets. If you use the wrong notes at major stores like ASDA, Tesco, Aldi, M&S or Morrisons from September this year, your transaction will be rejected. This is because old £20 and £50 notes …
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Postal workers threaten to strike after Royal Mail tried to make them work on Sundays in a bid to compete with rivals such as Amazon and DPD Postal workers threatening to strike over plans to make them work on Sundays Royal Mail wants to boost weekend deliveries to compete with …
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Research shows that women who are at the peak of their career when perimenopause and menopause hit feel the most blindsided by it (Getty Images) Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, recently made headlines when she revealed in an interview that she’s nervous about menopause. On the surface, this needn’t be …
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Russia: World War II-era Nazi artefacts discovered in 2016 The highly controversial introduction of conscription in the United Kingdom in January 1916 raised one of the largest all-volunteer armies in history, with more than two million men joining what became known as Kitchener’s Army. The mass of volunteers were destined …
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People who use cash to make transactions in shops have been warned that they have just a few months before a major change takes effect. Shoppers using old £20 and £50 notes will soon have the transaction rejected. The Bank of England has confirmed the September deadline for using old …
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Prince William has ‘held a crisis meeting with aides’ as he plans a Palace revolution to modernise the monarchy. The future of the monarchy and the Commonwealth came under scrutiny after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s tour of the Caribbean. Their intense eight-day long tour around Belize, Jamaica and the …
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The Swedish royal family have gathered on the balcony at Stockholm’s Royal Palace today to mark the king’s 76th birthday, for the first time since 2019, after the pandemic put the annual tradition on hold for two years. King Carl XVI Gustaf’s wife, Queen Silvia, 78, along with his children and …
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Local police in France have said that John Boyes, 63, hit his wife with a baseball bat before strangling her, then he hung himself but his family dispute the prosecutors account of events The Boyes couple who reportedly died in a murder-suicide but family dispute this account of events ( …
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COLUMN: The Postie Notes by Pete Malone A few days ago, I was approached by a customer anxious to find a parcel they were expecting. This item was a pack of live crickets intended as a meal for a pet gecko. It got me thinking about the most unusual items …
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Royal expert and diary editor at the Daily Mail, Richard Eden, shared his view that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle should “stay away” from any of the scheduled Platinum Jubilee events to end speculation surrounding their rumoured attendance — which he claims the couple are “loving.” “I really get the impression that …
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