[ad_1] Kevin Schembri Orland Sunday, 17 January 2021, 09:30 Last update: about 3 hours ago The end of the Brexit transitionary period came about in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, with both events causing issues for mail, packages and goods being transported from the UK to Malta. MaltaPost’s Chief Operations Officer, Adrian Vassallo (below),…
[ad_1] A legacy building of a business that has evolved through Grimsby generations is to be repurposed to aid start-ups in a digital-driven world – after more than a decade on the market. Bird seed specialist Haith’s derelict Park Street premises has been taken on by the man behind the conversion of the town’s old…
[ad_1] Updated: Jan 15, 2021 01:35 PM Cyber crime: police are warning residents to be wary of phishing scams seeking to get your bank account details Scam artists are circulating e-mails asking recipients to provide personal information in order to claim cash prizes. The Bermuda Police Service is urging residents to avoid responding to the…
[ad_1] New Year’s Eve at St Thomas’ Hospital in London is always gruelling. Booze-fuelled accidents, injuries and domestic incidents test staff physically, mentally and emotionally. For those on duty as 2020 waned, it was a particular challenge — and not just because of Covid-19, which was already filling intensive care unit (ICU) beds. Matthew Lee,…
[ad_1] The calm is not just eerie. It feels almost shocking. Here is row upon row of unconscious, critically sick people – including a new mum, for heaven’s sake. All are clinging to life via a latticework of tubes and wires and on a scale which the most experienced old hands had never envisaged. The…
[ad_1] ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador will become the fourth province to go to the polls during the COVID-19 pandemic after Premier Andrew Furey called an election for Feb. 13. Furey’s request to the province’s chief justice Friday to dissolve the legislature follows two days of free-flowing funding announcements from the governing minority…
[ad_1] VILLAGERS are facing major delays in deliveries of important post due to Royal Mail workers being off sick with Covid-19 or self-isolating. Residents of the village of Wheatley, near Oxford, complained of ‘severely delayed’ services only days after its local delivery office closed. Some locals revealed that they have not received any post in…
[ad_1] “SORRY for that,” says Airdrie postman Nathan Evans, explaining why he initially had to hang up his call with The Glasgow Times. “I’m on my route and someone stopped me and asked for a picture there: it’s like what is happening!” If the last week of the 26-year-old’s life is anything to go by,…
[ad_1] The family of an 85-year-old great-grandad who was described as a “bundle of joy” say they have been torn apart after he died at Ipswich Hospital just 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus. George Robert Shaw, a father-of-two, grandad-of-eight and great-grandad to 20 children, sadly lost his short battle with Covid-19 on Wednesday, just a week…
[ad_1] The Royal Mint has begun the countdown to the 50th anniversary of ‘D-day’. Not the World War II beach landing, that was in 1944, but ‘decimalisation day’. On 15 February 1971, UK coinage was reorganised into the way we know today, with the old system of 12 pence in a shilling and 20 pence…