Shell’s zooming profits on Tuesday are likely to provoke criticism from consumers struggling with record high fuel prices and the cost-of-living crisis, especially as analysts believe the Anglo-Dutch oil company will use its bumper profits to fund increased shareholder payouts. Its second quarter dividend is tipped to rise to 33 …
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//= do_shortcode(‘[in-content-square]’)?> Picture by Richard Townshend (CC BY 3.0). Welsh Labour’s deputy leader Carolyn Harris is to judge the first-ever menopause awards. The GenM awards will celebrate the businesses leading the change for the menopause, and has already partnered with over 60 companies including M&S, Royal Mail, Boots, Next and …
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With advocates continuing to call for people responsible for the contentious program to be held accountable, the incoming briefs for the new social services and government services ministers show the department, which oversees the design and administration of Australia’s social security system, suggested the new government focus on building the …
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An LGBT+ helpline run by Chester Pride has reported a “steep rise” in calls from people seeking support due to having “dark thoughts”, the charity has revealed. The Just Ask helpline supports any LGBT+ person with any issues that may be worrying them and Chester Pride chair Warren Allmark said …
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A Royal Mail postman who took 130 parcels home with him when he fell ill on his round was sacked for delivering them on his day off. Walacy Ramos had kept the parcels in his living room overnight without asking his superiors when he suddenly became unwell. Deciding to finish …
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The Conservative government, immediately following the resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the triggering of a leadership contest, last week announced massive de facto pay cuts for more than two million public sector workers. Clinical staff care for a patient with coronavirus in the intensive care unit at the …
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A Huddersfield postman was left with a grin on his face after a local care home showered him with gifts. Kevin Scott, a local postman who has worked for Royal Mail for 17 years, received a mug, a postal worker keyring, a handmade poster and a card as well as …
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The World Cup usually boosts ITV’s advertising revenues, but with the move to November and December, executives are uncertain about the size of the boost it will get. On Thursday ITV will present its interim results. City analysts expect it to say that its pre-tax profits have more than doubled …
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Prince Harry’s bombshell memoir manuscript ‘has been finished and signed off by lawyers’ – while publishers ‘try to get it out by Christmas’ Prince Harry is reported to have completed his eagerly awaited autobiography The final manuscript said to have been already signed off by his lawyers Ghostwriter JR Moehringer …
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Armed police swooped on the Broadwalk Shopping Centre in south Bristol today (July 24) amid reports of a disorder involving a ‘bladed weapon’. Officers were called to the shopping centre in Knowle after several people were reportedly involved in the disorder at just before 1pm. Two people were arrested at …
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