The man behind Dame Edna had the hosts of This Morning in fits of laughter over his embarrassing blunder Barry Humphies, the Australian comedian behind the iconic Dame Edna Everage character, caused amusement in the studio of This Morning yesterday (26 November). The 87-year-old star was telling host Dermot O’Leary …
Read More »Why your online Christmas shopping is costing more, and how to avoid this
When European Commission officials first decided the tax rules on goods coming into the EU needed to be looked at, Brexit was barely a twinkle in Nigel Farage’s eye. No one could have imagined – had they even bothered to try – what impact such tweaks might have on Irish …
Read More »Sheffield postman who ‘died twice’ on the operating table raises thousands for brain injury unit
The Sheffield Community Brain Injury Rehabilitation Team (SCBIRT), provided by Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, supported Iain Barker with speech therapy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and help with his eyesight after an operation had successfully removed the tumour. Iain, who works at the Royal Mail Halfway Delivery Office …
Read More »College group WCG wins prestigious Queen’s award
THE group which owns two county colleges has won a prestigious award. WCG, which runs Pershore College and also ran Malvern Hills College until last year, was given the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education for its work teaching engineering. Chief executive Angela Joyce represented the group at …
Read More »11 Royal Mail jobs available in Hertfordshire this Christmas
The Royal Mail are an invaluable service, especially over the busier periods such as Christmas. They are on the lookout for workers all-year-round but during the holidays there are often more opportunities available for those after part-time work. Every year the Royal Mail ask for seasonal mail sorters, whose job …
Read More »Postman sacked after parcels he left in woman’s bin were thrown away
A postman was sacked after he forged a customer’s signature and left her undelivered parcels in a rubbish bin – only for them to be thrown away before she got to them. Samuel Shirley told an employment tribunal he had an ‘agreement’ with the householder that he would leave her …
Read More »House expects Royal Thai Police’s report on ‘Red Bull’ scion hit-and-run case in December
Sanya said representatives of the Royal Thai Police Office informed the committee on Friday that police wrote to countries in their efforts to locate Mr. Vorayuth while many countries were cooperative and the Interpol already issued its red notice in relation to the case. The House committee on police affairs …
Read More »PLATELL’S PEOPLE: How the BBC’s golden boy Amol Rajan conned me into royal hatchet job
Eight months ago, I was introduced to the BBC’s rising star Amol Rajan who asked me to be interviewed for a TV documentary he was making. It was about Princes William and Harry and their relationship with the media after the death of their mother Diana. He said the working …
Read More »Henry receives a grand prize with his stamp design
The entry by seven-year-old Henry Varty-Lindsay was one of two North East regional winners in the Heroes of the Pandemic stamp design competition. Royal Mail has announced details of the 24 regional winners in its Heroes of the Pandemic stamp design contest open to children aged four to 14. The successful …
Read More »Super-Covid variant spooks markets – but ministers must hold their nerve
It has more than 30 mutations, the most ever recorded and double the number found in the Delta variant. It could be more vaccine resistant and transmissible than any previous version, triggering an “exponential” rise in cases in South Africa and other countries that it spreads to. And its so-called …
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