A Royal Mail worker in Greater Manchester is in self isolation amid coronavirus concerns. The worker is self isolating ‘as a precaution’ after developing flu like symptoms following a trip to Italy. They are not understood to have tested positive for Covid-19. Royal Mail would not confirm the colleagues’ role …
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The future of a disused former Royal Mail building in Brownhills looks to be finally sorted as a proposal to convert it into flats was approved. A new two storey block of eight apartments, with 10 parking spaces, will be built on land behind businesses on High Street and Church …
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Except Huddersfield. On Christmas Day. At a venue called Ivanhoe’s, in a market town in West Yorkshire, the Sex Pistols would play a benefit show for the Fire Brigades Union, which had recently called its members out on strike in pursuit of a 30 percent wage increase. This was a …
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A self-confessed drugs dealer who set up several bank accounts to run his drugs-supplying operation was today jailed for three years and three months at Derry Crown Court. Christopher Terence Langmead, 27, from Rainey Court in Magherafelt, deposited £166,143 into one of his accounts to run what Judge Philip Babington …
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A pedestrian who died in a collision with a Royal Mail lorry on the A30 near Exeter Airport this morning was a man aged in his 20s. Police confirmed this afternoon that the man’s next-of-kin have been informed and formal identification is yet to take place. Emergency services were called …
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The family of the grandfather in his 80s who died of coronavirus yesterday – the UK’s second fatality – fear he could have passed on the infection after he was left ‘coughing excessively’ on a ward for six hours. The man died at Milton Keynes Hospital after he was admitted on March 3 …
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Rain comes in stinging gusts and the snow-covered hills on the Argyll shore are only a faint blur. But the gloom which envelops the Ferguson Marine shipyard here in Port Glasgow has nothing to do with the weather. Two rotting ‘ghost’ ships haunt this stretch of the Lower Clyde. The …
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Elderly people will be told to stay at home under new government guidelines to tackle the outbreak of deadly coronavirus as health officials urge Britons to check in on their relatives. The elderly should be prepared for ‘social distancing’ policies, which are to be announcement by ministers next week, government …
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A team of Marine Commandos are to take on a death-defying record-breaking challenge which will see them rowing from New York to London. The four Marines, who are part of the OCEAN REVIVAL 2020 team, will attempt the feat in May over a period of 60 days as they aim …
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It’s been a tumultuous time for the Royal Family, with the ongoing saga surrounding Prince Andrew’s friendship with disgraced paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Harry’s bombshell announcement he is quitting The Firm. Last year saw the break-up of the Fab Four, with Harry and wife Meghan Markle, 38, splitting from …
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