A woman says her life has been ruined after a fake Royal Mail scam drained her bank account of £2,500. The 21-year-old from the Horfield area of Bristol says the scammers maxed out her credit card and blocked her from regaining access. And it all began with a convincing-looking email …
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Royal Mail said it was investigating a spate of post box thefts in the Peterborough area. The latest went missing from the village of Holme last week. Source link
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JUST two minutes of national screen time generated more than a month’s worth of online sales for a small York retailer. Phil Pinder said the response to his shop, The Potions Cauldron, being showcased on Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch programme had been ‘phenomenal’. He and business partner Ben Fry …
Read More »Warning after fake Royal Mail scam leaves woman’s life ‘completely ruined’
A woman says her life has been ruined after a fake Royal Mail scam drained her bank account of £2,500. The 21-year-old from the Horfield area of Bristol says the scammers maxed out her credit card and blocked her from regaining access. And it all began with a convincing-looking email …
Read More »Wizz Air Plans to Offer Discounted COVID Tests
Budget airline Wizz Air is offering passengers discounted Covid-19 tests and fit to fly certificates. image: Twitter WIZZ Air Plans to Offer Discounted COVID Tests. Budget airline Wizz Air is to offer discounted Covid-19 tests and certificates to coincide with the government’s relaxation of quarantine from December 15. Discounted PCR …
Read More »Thai students charged with royal defamation law ahead of demonstration
Thai authorities have escalated their legal battle against the students leading pro-democracy demonstrations by charging 12 of them with violating a harsh law against defaming the monarchy. It comes as the Thai capital Bangkok girded for another rally on Wednesday as the students push their demands that Prime Minister Prayuth …
Read More »UK extends Sharif’s visa for six months
ISLAMABAD: The British government has extended the visa of former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Supreme Leader Nawaz Sharif for another six months, sources told The Express Tribune on Tuesday. The sources said that Sharif’s visa expired on November 18 and he moved an application to UK authorities …
Read More »Oil market taps into vaccine positivity
In London, equity markets rose solidly as investors continued to rotate away from lockdown winners and into neglected energy, aviation and travel stocks. BP and Royal Dutch Shell both jumped against the improving demand backdrop, with the former closing up 21.4p at 274.8p. Shell rose 73.4p to £13.26, with the …
Read More »ALEX BRUMMER: Yellen stages a comeback at the US Treasury
The last chairman of the Federal Reserve to move from the US central bank to the US Treasury – G William Miller – did so at a moment of turmoil. In the final years of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, inflation was out of control, unemployment rising and the dollar falling like …
Read More »Businesses must act now as transition deadline looms
Every month Nancy Spungen, a chocolate-coloured and fabulously pampered moggy, who lives near Gothenburg in Sweden, waits excitedly for a parcel from London. It contains all of her favourite cat treats, specially packed and posted. Delays will be frowned on – she’s not named after the punk girlfriend of Sid …
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