Trade unions on Friday suspended two sets of looming strikes, with the UK’s biggest transport union calling off scheduled rail walkouts and postal workers pausing planned action over pay and conditions. The RMT rail union said it would not walk out on Saturday, Monday and Wednesday as it entered “intensive …
Read More »Three 24-hour strikes by railway workers scheduled for the coming week have been called off, the RMT union has announced, saying it will now enter “a period of intensive negotiations” with Network Rail and rail operators. The news came as Royal Mail and the CWU union agreed to a week …
Read More »Royal Mail has unveiled its Christmas stamp collection which will feature the Queen’s silhouette for the final time. The festive stamps will centre around key moments from the Nativity with all six styles bearing the outline of the late Queen Elizabeth II who passed away in September. The Queen’s distinctive …
Read More »THIS autumn there is a bumper crop of acorns and walking under a mature oak we find ourselves crunching underfoot dozens of the thousands of acorns littering the ground below. The oak is truly a most bountiful tree, an essential link in the ecosystem directly or indirectly supporting a vast …
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Camilla has carried out her first audience in her role as Queen Consort. She met with Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho in the Regency Room at Buckingham Palace on Thursday morning. Wearing a poppy, alongside the Queen Mother’s oval rock crystal and diamond art deco brooch, she and Mr Coelho could …
Read More »The wreckage of a rare type of Royal Navy helicopter which crashed off the coast of Northern Ireland 60 years ago has been discovered. The Westland Dragonfly went down in Lough Foyle during a recovery exercise in 1958. It had been in service as an air-sea search and rescue helicopter, …
Read More »A temporary road closure, suddenly introduced on Thursday night so a problem with a manhole cover on Fairlee Road could be fixed, has now been lifted. The major road into Newport has fully reopened, according to contractor Island Roads this morning (Friday). Last night, just yards from ongoing Southern Water works, …
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Portishead could be left without a post office after news that McColls is to close its store in the town. Retail giant Morrisons has announced it is to close 132 of its McColls stores across the UK which it bought earlier this year in a rescue deal. The McColls store …
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Supporters of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan think commentators are quite wrong to conclude that the title of his forthcoming memoir — Spare — indicates that the book will be a score-settling Exocet aimed at the Royal Family. Most people here believe that ‘spare’ is a reference to the …
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The region’s longest running Christmas Toy Appeal will run for almost six weeks to help under-privileged children experience the magic of Christmas. Times are tough with the cost of living crisis but more so for our children and young people, especially those disadvantaged by poverty. On the back of two …
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