Two American hotels are offering holiday packages this a royal touch this season, with one inspired by Princess Diana’s trip to Chicago in 1996 and another including a stay in the same high-end suite where Meghan Markle held her baby shower. In honor of season four of The Crown on …
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Our dogs might not like them so much, but the U.K’s postmen and women have become one of our most welcome sights during lockdown. To celebrate our postmen and women, Ronan Keating has joined forces with notonthehighstreet, and is asking the nation to nominate its favourite postie. Those nominated will …
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A MAN who fleeced his sick, elderly aunt in a £150,000 con has been jailed. In the scam Peter Thorne pocketed the huge sum of cash while his dementia-suffering victim was living at a nursing home in Oxford. The 66-year-old of The Slade, Daventry, had admitted one count of fraud …
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2 diabetes can be reversed by losing weight – and one former sufferer has proved it after losing eight stone. Faith Roots, 64, from Didcot, suffered with type 2 diabetes, but after going on a diet, says she feel like a different person. Ms Roots said she felt unwell, had …
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The highest rate of new business creation during the first lockdown took place in the capital based on company incorporations, according to a study commissioned by Royal Mail. London postcodes scored the highest both in terms of the raw number of new businesses set up over the course of the …
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Oxfordshire County Council’s trading standards team has offered some safe shopping advice ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Oxfordshire County Council’s trading standards team has offered some safe shopping advice. The two US-inspired bargain bonanza days have become popular with retailers in recent years, with consumers looking to pick …
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DYFED-Powys Police is urging residents not to fall for an email scam pretending to be Royal Mail. The scam sees the victim receive an email claiming to be from Royal Mail stating that they tried to deliver a parcel – then asks that person to pay £1.99 to arrange redelivery. …
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Posted on Nov 18, 2020 Despite lockdown 2.0 and a wider hiring slowdown, there are currently over 13,600 temporary Christmas jobs unfilled in the UK, according to new research from job search engine Adzuna. Adzuna analysed over 650,000 jobs available in November to reveal the top Christmas jobs hiring now. …
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New district-wide parking charges have been called ‘inappropriate’ and a ‘cash grab’ by opponents representing one of the towns affected. In a Wallingford council meeting on Monday evening, councillors unanimously voted against South Oxfordshire District Council’s new proposed parking charges. Two district councils – Vale of White Horse and South …
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An eight-year-old girl died after being struck by a falling branch during the high winds of Storm Ellen, an inquest has been told. Maisy Mayne suffered “catastrophic” injuries and died instantly after being struck on the head. An inquest in Maidstone heard her younger sister was also seriously injured in …
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