[ad_1] Queuing cars waiting to buy fuel at a BP petrol filling station in Berkshire this week as British drivers panic buy fuel. Image: Amani A/Shutterstock.com The fuel and driver shortages that have dominated the headlines this week are not affecting home delivery services at the moment, say delivery companies and retailers. But with the…
[ad_1] Prince Andrew was swept into Windsor Castle last night as he prepares to meet his new grandchild for the first time with the legal row over whether he had sex with one of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s young slaves rumbling on today. The Duke of York spent the summer at Balmoral with his mother the Queen…
[ad_1] Policy watch… The government has launched a consultation on defining and implementing changes within The Pension Regulator’s (TPR) notifiable events regime. Draft regulations on 8 September showed two new notifiable events, as well as additional information and definitions, and three events which will require a notice and statement. Royal Mail Group formally launched a…
[ad_1] A temporary post office service is set to be introduced at two places in Staffordshire after the closure of their permanent offices which used to offer services. The Royal Mail ‘outreach’ service is set to be introduce in Kings Bromley and in Longdon on Tuesdays. The pop-up Post Offices will operate in Kings Bromley…
[ad_1] High levels of staff sickness have been to blame for delays in postal services across Lichfield and Burntwood, postal chiefs have said. Cllr Sue Woodward raised concerns over disruption to postal services, with residents highlighting late or inconsistent deliveries in recent weeks. The Royal Mail has now contacted the Burntwood Town Council leader to…
[ad_1] Take a look back at the good old days with our selection of photographs from the paper’s archive. More every week in the Ballymena Times. Here are some from 2006-2007. Chairman of the International Rugby Board and Chairman of Rugby World Cup Syd Millar, who gave a talk to pupils at the Diamond Primary…
[ad_1] A former Royal Mail employee stole 23 packages containing sportswear from the Gloucester depot of Parcel Force. Alan Orzechowski, 26, of Clement Street, Gloucester, was warned by the presiding judge at Cheltenham Magistrates Court yesterday (Sept 29) that he faces a custodial sentence because of the breach of public trust in the postal system….
[ad_1] The government’s sacking this week of Go-Ahead from Southeastern over the failure to repay £25 million of subsidies, has left the taxpayer with a much larger bill: a £675 million hole in the rail network’s pension fund whose liabilities the Treasury must now take on. Analysis of Southeastern’s most recent accounts shows a pension…
[ad_1] Buckingham Palace braces for ‘powerful revelations’ about the Royal Family in ‘intimate’ new book Tina Brown’s book promises to ‘irrevocably change’ perception of Royal Family It will be published just months before Prince Harry’s tell all memoir, in April Book entitled The Palace Papers: Inside The House Of Windsor – The Truth And The…
[ad_1] Pinsent Masons, Travers Smith and easyJet were among the major winners at the 2021 Legal Business Awards, which returned as a live event following the pandemic, bringing together 600 guests in Covid-safe conditions at the Grosvenor House hotel last night (30 September). Hosted by prominent political figure William Hague, the evening saw Pinsents crowned Law…