John Lewis has rolled out an AI-driven age check tool for sales of knives online. The company is the first major retailer to add facial age estimation at the checkout to approve digital knife sales. The move means that the company can now begin selling kitchen knives through its website …
Read More »Harrogate resident finally receives Christmas card after post delays
Mr Leak said his post finally appeared “as if by magic” today (Janaury 21), including a Christmas card sent on December 23. “A pile of post has been dumped today”, he told us. Denise Rawson, who lives in Norwood, said she had been without post for 16 days. Ms Rawson …
Read More »Harrogate resident finally receives Christmas card after post delays
Mr Leak said his post finally appeared “as if by magic” today (Janaury 21), including a Christmas card sent on December 23. “A pile of post has been dumped today”, he told us. Denise Rawson, who lives in Norwood, said she had been without post for 16 days. Ms Rawson …
Read More »Bumper Christmas for Warrington’s Royal Mail superhub
Based close to the M62 at Omega, Royal Mail opened the Warrington site – which is the size four and a half football pitches – in June 2022, creating hundreds of jobs. And along with its sister hub in Daventry, Northamptonshire, the state-of-the-art hubs processed more than 75 million parcels …
Read More »Landscape architect wins £60,000 race discrimination payout after being put on Royal Borough of Greenwich council panel to show off how diverse it was
A landscape architect has won more than £60,000 after her boss said she was ‘silly’ for complaining about being discriminated against. Council project manager Mary Karooma-Brooker was found to have been the victim of ‘tokenistic treatment’ when her employees asked her to be on an interview panel. She had been …
Read More »Princess Anne kicks off her solo trip to South Africa: Royal arrives at Cape Town riding school on first day of state visit – as husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence stays in the UK after injury
Princess Anne made a visit to a riding school for the disabled on the first day of her state visit to South Africa. Despite the long flight, the royal, 74, looked fresh in casual attire – a floral blue shirt and white chinos – on Tuesday as she arrived at the equestrian centre …
Read More »Did Vishal Dadlani call Jasleen Royal a ‘bad singer’ in cryptic post?
Netizens think Vishal Dadlani called Jasleen Royal a ‘bad singer’ after she joined Coldplay’s frontman, Chris Martin during their Mumbai concert for a duet of “We Pray” Vishal Dadlani, Jasleen Royal with Chris Martin Pic/Instagram Listen to this article Did Vishal …
Read More »Inside Princess Diana’s ‘betrayal’ of Princess Margaret and how the late Queen’s sister urged Royals to ‘cut off all contact’ with King Charles’ ex-wife after her explosive interview
Princess Diana’s famous BBC Panorama interview was explosive, and many members of the Royal Family felt the impact. The late Princess of Wales’s landmark television appearance with Martin Bashir aired on November 20, 1995 and 20 million tuned in as she made the well-known comment, ‘there were three of us in …
Read More »Pauline Quirke retires from acting due to dementia diagnosis
Quirke rose to fame thanks to her role as Sharon Theodopolopodous on the long-running sitcom Birds of a Feather, and went on to win a British Comedy Award in 1990 for the role. The sitcom, which ran from 1989 to 1998 on BBC One, and then on ITV from 2014 …
Read More »Evesham to host Great Train Robbery talk
The talk, which will be led by expert Ian Boskett, will focus on the heist’s 60th anniversary and new updates. The robbery involved £2.6 million stolen from a Royal Mail train on August 8, 1963, by a gang of 15 after tampering with the lineside signals. Mr Boskett will explore …
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