The two relatives who have tested positive for the killer coronavirus are Chinese tourists who were staying in a budget hotel in York when they came down with the world’s most feared illness, it was revealed today. The British Government is scrambling to find anyone who came into contact with …
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Three housebuilders are also due to report on their numbers in the coming week: Barratt Developments, Bellway and Redrow The coming week keeps up the pace of company news, with updates from GSK, Vodafone, Barratt and Royal Mail, plus with its being the first week of February there’s also a …
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Visitors to the Royal Mint have discovered a simple trick that lets them turn any 10p into £12. The hack involves the special 10ps released months ago – each with a different letter of the alphabet. And the mint lets your swap any old 10p for one of the special …
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The rescue flight from coronavirus-hit Wuhan will leave China tonight and fly up to 150 stranded Britons back home who will then enter a two-week quarantine at an NHS unit on the Wirrall. The UK is chartering a plane from a company in Spain and staffing it with RAF personnel …
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In the past couple of weeks, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s fate has been sealed: it will be what the British tabloids are calling “a hard Megxit.” They’ll cease to be working royals and will no longer go by His and Her Royal Highness. What’s less clear is the fate …
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Royal Mail expands its fleet, adding 87 new electric vehicles to one of its largest mail centres in London, Mount Pleasant. The move will expand on efforts to reduce its carbon footprint and emissions in the city and their push towards zero-emissions entirely. The mail centre at mount pleasant is …
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At first glance, the industrial transport sector seems a rather odd grouping of companies, covering everything from marine engineering and shipbroking to private aviation and letter delivery. But there is a common factor on which their performance hinges: business confidence. Clarkson’s (CKN) financial division ran aground last year as global …
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A postal worker in Yate has avoided being sent to prison after he was found to have stolen scores of letters containing gift cards and cash. Daniel Cole kept the letters and later spent the gift cards at stores in and around Bristol, magistrates heard. The 39-year-old, from Nibletts Hill …
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Chatting to someone the other day, I mentioned that I was sort of semi-retired – not actually drawing a pension, but not working as hard as I used to, either. Instead, a lot of the day-to-day bills were paid by a monthly income that I took from a couple of ISAs. The …
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DPD has ordered 300 electric vans for use in the UK. Nissan is to deliver its e-NV200 by May 2020. DPD is thus expanding its electric fleet in the UK to 450 vehicles and aims to reach the 500 e-vehicle mark by the end of 2020. By then ten per …
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