More than a century has passed since Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic started its ill-fated maiden journey from Southampton, UK, only to sink in the North Atlantic, which turned into the ship’s frigid graveyard. The grand ocean liner collided with an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912 and …
Read More »Princess Anne visits Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes days after Prince Philip’s death
Princess Anne reminisced about sailing in her younger years as she made her first in-person appearance at an official event since her father’s death today. The Princess Royal, 70, cut a sombre figure today as she visited Britain’s most prestigious yacht club, the Royal Yacht Squadron, in Cowes on the Isle …
Read More »New trustees join Chesterfield’s Ashgate Hospicecare
Kirsty McMillan, who is the director of integration and direct services for Derby City Council, joins the hospice following her own experience of the charity caring for her mum in her final months. While Dermot Toberty, former director of one of the largest HR shared service centres in Europe, also …
Read More »Coming screen to screen with scammers far too often for my liking
Over the past year or two I’ve come face to face (or rather, screen to screen) with scammers more often than I’d like. First, there was my Spotify music account, which suddenly began showing strange songs in my recently played that were most certainly not to my music taste. My …
Read More »Parcel Delivery Market Professional Survey, Finanacial Overview, Emerging Applications – The Courier
Global Parcel Delivery Industry Growth, Size, Sales, Supply Chain, Production Revenue 2020 The global Parcel Delivery market research report presents the current market size, position, and the future scope of the global Parcel Delivery industry. It also highlights the upcoming challenges and novel opportunities in the Parcel Delivery market. The report demonstrates …
Read More »BBC’s Bent Coppers details ‘disgusting’ trick corrupt police used to frame innocent teen
BBC viewers were left horrified by the haunting stories told by innocent people who were framed by police in a new documentary Bent Coppers: Crossing The Line of Duty. The eye-opening BBC Two documentary examines the corruption in the police in the 1970s and reveals a secret network of officers …
Read More »He wants a refund instead of a Royal Caribbean cruise credit
Q. In 2019, my wife, Sandy, and I booked a Royal Caribbean cruise to New England and Canada. This plan was to celebrate a special occasion, our upcoming 50th wedding anniversary. We were scheduled to leave in May, but Royal Caribbean canceled the cruise and offered us either a refund …
Read More »Esther Rantzen wants That’s Life revival due to ‘rising number of internet scams’
Esther Rantzen wants the BBC to revive her show That’s Life to help deal with the rising number of internet scams. The TV host, 80, said: “I had two attempts in emails to me, one purportedly from Royal Mail. “It said they’d tried to deliver a parcel and if I …
Read More »Covid inquiry? Workers must decide
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1129/32362 From The Socialist newspaper, 14 April 2021 Put Tories and capitalism in the dock photo Alberto Giuliani/CC (Click to enlarge) Rob Williams, Socialist Party workplace and trade union organiser Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson has presided over a coronavirus catastrophe that has left over 127,000 …
Read More »Colchester Royal grammar pupil’s says it has ‘toxic rape culture’
One of the country’s leading grammar schools has said it is ‘shocked’ and ‘saddened’ after an ex-student claimed it was gripped by a ‘toxic’ male ‘rape culture’ with girls allegedly pressured into performing sex acts on boys. A former pupil at Colchester Royal Grammar School in Essex has claimed she …
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