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An anonymous reader sends the story of the rediscovery of an original painting of Ada Byron at about age 4, the girl who was to become Countess Lovelace and the world’s first computer programmer. A US Army sergeant in Tajikistan caught wind of an eBay auction of a 180-year-old painting …

TORY politicians have slammed Harrow’s Labour MPs for voting with the Government on Post Office closures. Gareth Thomas, MP for Harrow West, and Tony McNulty, MP for Harrow East, voted down a Conservative motion calling for the Government to suspend plans to close. More: continued here

Programmer Buys Original Ada Lovelace Painting On eBaySlashdot –3 minutes agoA US Army sergeant in Tajikistan caught wind of an eBay auction of a 180-year-old painting of Ada Byron, with provenance; he notified a programmer buddy in … More: continued here

Police say a vehicle has crashed through the front of a Burbank post office, injuring three people. More: continued here

PRESS DIGEST – British business – March 25Reuters –3 minutes agoRoyal Mail warns its finances are so poor that its pension fund trustees could bring it into liquidation to pay off a 3.4 billion pound deficit. … More: continued here

Burbank Leader Woman drives car into post officeBurbank Leader,  United States –2 minutes agoBy Jeremy Oberstein BURBANK — An 88-year-old Burbank woman drove her car into a post office window in the 2100 block of Hollywood Way shortly after noon … More: continued here

They started on eBay in the spare room – now they fill a millCrain’s Manchester Business, UK –2 hours agoWall, a former legal executive who quit his job four years ago, became the fifth entrepreneur within the mill who had turned a simple eBay account into a …EBay entrepreneur: Just BrasCrain’s Manchester …

3 hurt as car slams into Burbank post officeLos Angeles Times, CA –5 hours agoBy Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer An elderly woman drove her car through the front of a Burbank post office this afternoon, injuring three …Vehicle Hits Calif. Post Office; 3 HurtThe Associated Press3 hurt as vehicle …

A vehicle has crashed through the front of a Southern California post office, injuring three people. More: continued here

Hell Mail Post haste from the Royal MailTimes Online, UK –5 hours agoYet final-salary pensions are expensive and, according to latest reports, so costly that the Royal Mail may be forced into liquidation by pension fund …Post office sell-off expected to generate £20m for Royal MailTimes OnlineBritish mail service to sell buildingsUnited …