A POOLE resident has complained about Royal Mail lorries allegedly repeatedly ignoring the weight limit in the road which her garden backs on to. Laura Wyatt, 42, Weytown Close, said the lorries have been ignoring the 7.5 tonne weight limit in neighbouring Stinsford Road for years, driving down the road …
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to ‘announce pregnancy’ in 2020 The Duke and Duchess of Sussex with their son (Image: GETTY) “William and Kate are less likely according to our odds.” Meghan and Harry were married in May 2018 at Windsor Castle’s St George’s Chapel. The couple, who first met …
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While most people might have spent Boxing Day walking off their Christmas lunch or snoozing through a film, Tim O’Donovan was settling down to do some serious arithmetic, as he always does at this time of year. And there can be no margin of error when your annual sums make …
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Published: 12/29/2019 10:00:52 PM Modified: 12/29/2019 10:00:39 PM Since the 2019 programs of the U.S. Mint and U.S. Postal Service are both finished for the year, it may be useful to cover a recent issue by the British Post Office with an American theme. In late November, the Royal Mail …
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Queen‘s Roger Taylor has been made an OBE in the New Year Honours list. Read more: Queen: 20 things you probably never knew about ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ The list, which was drawn up and approved during Theresa May’s premiership, rewards a lineup of well-known figures from the worlds of art and sport. …
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Tens of thousands of workers have lost up to £10billion of savings in Government-sanctioned pension scams. Army veterans, police officers, firemen, paramedics, care workers and teachers were among those fleeced under an almost decade-long loophole. Most agreed to transfer their nest eggs to the rogue schemes because they were enrolled …
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The cellist who moved the nation to tears during the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle in 2018 has received an MBE in the New Year Honours for his service to music. Sheku Kanneh-Mason, 20, from Nottingham, said he was ‘absolutely thrilled’ after received the distinction for his service …
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Pahang Sultan Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah (left) has been appointed as the new Yang di-Pertuan Agong. ― Bernama pic KUANTAN, Dec 29 — 2019 was a historic year for the Pahang royal institution when Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah ascended the throne and was proclaimed the sixth …
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“Oh, the cranes, the cranes,” the gaffer used to say, and he would push his spectacles up his nose and rub his hands together. Out, he’d look, right through me. Through the grit and the grime, through the black metal bars outside my window. Out over the flat felt roof …
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I have just finished sending off the producers’ matinee reports (it’s Christmas and we have so many extra shows we are all starting to feel like hamsters on a wheel, or as though we are living through Groundhog Day) when my phone pings. It’s a delivery company texting to inform …
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