This week sees the launch of a bid to make Cornwall the first Real Living Wage county in the UK. Figures suggest that 13 per cent of all workers in Cornwall – around 25,000 people – are not paid the real living wage. A group of cross sector organisations have …
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Across Leeds mobile speed cameras have been put in place in a bid to reduce accidents. Mobile speed cameras have been set up by the West Yorkshire Police Camera Enforcement Unit on the behalf of the West Yorkshire Camera Partnership. These cameras are then set up in known casualty zones, …
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Residents in Cornwall have been warned their post could be delayed by two weeks. Royal Mail has been hit by criticism that its service is abysmal after birthday cards, letters and parcels have taken ages to get to their destination, and sometimes arrive in bulk. All over the county people …
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A woman’s box of royal souvenir chocolates from 1935 have been found under her bed in Leeds 88 years later – after she refused to eat them because her dad told her not to. Vera Petchell was given the chocolates to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V and …
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Today, the Royal Mail share price, also known as International Distributions Services PLC (LON: IDS), fell 3.50% despite a lack of news releases from the parcels and letters delivery company. The company’s shares have been doing well recently after recovering from the early September to late August lows. YOUR CAPITAL …
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A famous tree in the Midlands has been named as an iconic alternative to the felled Sycamore Gap tree. It comes after the beloved tree, which once featured in a Hollywood movie, was chopped down illegally. And now nature-loving tourists mourning the loss of the iconic Sycamore Gap tree have …
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A Royal Mail lorry driver took four people to hospital after a car crash in the early hours of Saturday. Suffolk Police were alerted to a single-vehicle collision after the car veered off the A1088 in Euston at 3.40am. A police spokesman said a Royal Mail lorry driver witnessed the …
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Bagging an appointment to see a doctor can be something of a battle these days. It often involves having to phone your local surgery at 8am on the dot and patiently wait in a phone queue until you’re finally put through to a receptionist. Invariably this effort can be in …
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If you can’t get to Tuesday’s EFL Trophy game against Crawley you can still read the match programme which is now available to order on line Jason Goodliffe gives the management team’s reaction to Saturday’s victory over Walsall, and there’s a full roundup of all the other weekend action …
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The winners and losing finalists of Boston Indoor Bowls Club’s Open 3-Wood Drawn Triples competition, with the organisers, Carol Dowse (extreme left) and Mark Brown (extreme right) Fifty-four bowlers were split into 18 teams, each one seeded to be made up of bowlers with a mix of experience. Each team …
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