Thursday 1 October 10:01am Our Change and Check campaign is back! Make sure you stay up to date right here on our Change and Check live blog, where we’ll be keeping you up to date with the latest developments in the campaign, keeping our eyes peeled for celebrity supporters and …
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A bollard system designed to protect residents from a terrorist attack will come into force this month – permanently closing several streets to drivers. Canterbury City Council decided to install the barriers on the advice of specialist police officers to protect people and business from plots in which a hostile …
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The Government has set out how many items of PPE GP practices can order from the central portal now that it is meant to meet ‘all’ of their PPE needs. Under the new order limits, practices with 30,000 or more patients – a new category – have an allowance of …
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Astonished residents across the Forest of Dean were stunned to receive anonymous letters in the post accusing their local council of “false and fraudulent cost claims”. This week Royal Mail posties delivered envelopes containing five page mailshots which claimed top barristers and lawyers were launching a mass action against the …
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Arts and CultureBooks Gavin Francis has created a delightful hymn to the many attractions of islands, taking in science, history and religion, writes Allan Massie Thursday, 1st October 2020, 7:09 pm On his first visit to Unst, northernmost inhabited island of Shetland, Gavin Francis was told that a black-browed albatross, …
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For the past few months, almost every headline beginning “coronavirus testing” has made my heart sink. Rather than following the lead of nations like South Korea, which recognized long ago that widespread testing is the cornerstone of an effective pandemic response, Western governments were initially slow to commit to scaling …
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Royal Mail went under offer to sell the slice of its former depot in Nine Elms – known as Plot A – last July, when Quadrant secured the deal ahead of rival bids from the likes of MiddleCap, among other investors. The transaction is Royal Mail’s latest sale on the …
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex today demanded an end to ‘structural racism’ in Britain. In a wide-ranging interview from their £11million California mansion, Prince Harry revealed his ‘awakening’ to the discrimination faced by black people after meeting his wife. Meanwhile, Meghan Markle praised Black Lives Matter protests in America after …
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image copyrightHampshire County Council Two children’s books have been returned to a library in Hampshire 48 years after being taken out. The Thomas the Tank Engine and Learning in Colour books were returned to the library at Basingstoke Discovery Centre by post. A note, signed “Andy”, apologised for keeping the …
Read More »Tokenistic gestures are being made in place of real-world action to improve the lives of black Britons, activists have complained, after Royal Mail marked Black History Month by dedicating four postboxes. The boxes were painted black and turned into billboards celebrating the stories of four prominent black people, including Sir …
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