new ‘recovery’ contracts deliver government commitment to end the complicated franchising model and deliver a simpler, effective model to reform Britain’s railways agreements focused on high performance targets and simplifying journeys are first steps to a network that puts passengers back in control Ministers today ended rail franchising after 24 …
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The Countess of Wessex was joined by her husband Prince Edward and their two children as they took to a Hampshire beach to pick up litter today. Sophie, 55, and the Earl of Wessex, 56, appeared in high spirits as they arrived at the Great British Beach Clean on Southsea Beach in …
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Generous postal workers paid a call to Inverurie Hospital for a special delivery thanks to their fundraising efforts. Back in April the team decided that a fundraiser for the hospital would be a show of support for NHS staff. Postal staff from Inverurie visited the hospital to hand over items …
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Video PUBLISHED: 05:28 21 September 2020 Sophie Wyllie Lindy Platten-Jarvis at her gate on the blind bend in Felthorpe. Photo: Bill Smith Archant © 2014 An ME sufferer who lives in fear of a blind bend outside of her house is calling for safety improvements. Email this article to a …
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Princess Diana’s childhood nanny has claimed the royal had a ‘sheltered’ childhood, and said she had no idea of the ‘trauma’ of her parent’s divorce. Diana’s mother Frances Shand Kydd, who passed away in 2004, aged 68, left her father John Spencer, for wallpaper tycoon Peter Shand Kydd in 1969, and, after …
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Every week, dozens of funeral notices and birth announcements are made in the Hull Daily Mail. Announcing the death of a family member has been a time-honoured tradition for family and loved ones, a tradition which should continue as a life should be celebrated and never forgotten. There have been …
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Cycling campaigners in Worcester say that plans by the county council to extend the hours of a ban on people riding bikes in the city centre show that it is “going backwards” when it comes to active travel. Under the proposals, both cars and bicycles will be banned from the centre …
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news, national, dairy, royal commission, farmer power, dairy connect, dairy inquiry, senate, dairy australia, adf Industry advocacy groups Farmer Power and Dairy Connect have joined forces to call for a royal commission into the dairy industry following last week’s Senate inquiry. The proposed royal commission would address concerns around industry …
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Student leaders install a plaque declaring ‘This country belongs to the people’ during a mass rally to call for the ouster of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and reforms in the monarchy, near the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand, September 20, 2020. BANGKOK, Sept 20 — Thousands of protesters cheered as …
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Apologies, ink and paper lovers. Royal Mail recently hinted that it might discontinue Saturday letter deliveries, thanks to a decline in people posting missives to one another and a boom, instead, in parcels. It’s not hard to see why we’ve gone mad for gifting in 2020. We were cut off …
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