Bassey is the first solo female music artist to be honoured with a dedicated stamp issue. Eight stamps are part of the main set and they show Dame Shirley performing throughout her career. A further four stamps which are presented in a miniature sheet capture her during recording sessions and …
Read More »Royal Mail releases a 12-stamp issue of Dame Shirley Bassey
Big Sender! Royal Mail releases a 12-stamp issue of Dame Shirley Bassey performing in her remarkable 70-year career By Milo Pope Updated: 20:10 EDT, 6 September 2023 She has won many plaudits throughout her 70 year career and now Dame Shirley Bassey is the subject of 12 special stamps. The …
Read More »New stamps to honour career of Dame Shirley Bassey
Royal Mail has revealed images of 12 special stamps to mark 70 years since the start of Dame Shirley Bassey’s career. She is the first solo female music artist to be honoured with a dedicated stamp issue. Eight stamps in the main set show Dame Shirley performing throughout her career, while …
Read More »Shirley Bassey to feature on Royal Mail stamps set
Bassey is the first solo female music artist to be honoured with a dedicated stamp issue. Eight stamps are part of the main set and they show Dame Shirley performing throughout her career. A further four stamps which are presented in a miniature sheet capture her during recording sessions and …
Read More »EXCLUSIVE – Shocking video shows moment water pours through ceilings of trainee Royal Marines housing block – raising further questions about standards of troops’ accommodation
EXCLUSIVE – Shocking video shows moment water pours through ceilings of trainee Royal Marines housing block – raising further questions about standards of troops’ accommodation The recruits’ personal belongings were seen floating along the block’s corridors The flooding caused by a burst pipe came days after a power cut at …
Read More »Jeremy Hunt’s pension plunder plan is bad business
Receive free Jeremy Hunt updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Jeremy Hunt news every morning. John Ralfe is an independent pension consultant. Is the answer to the UK’s chronic under-investment problem really down the back of the pension sofa? Chancellor Jeremy Hunt certainly …
Read More »First class stamp prices to rise – move fast to save on sending letters
The price of a first-class stamp for a standard letter is to increase by 15p from £1.10 to £1.25 on 2 October due to increasing cost pressures. Meanwhile, the price of first class stamp on a large letter is to increase by 35p from £1.60 to £1.95 – an rise …
Read More »Almost 240,000 people died in past two years waiting for National Health Service care
Almost a quarter of a million people died in the past two years while waiting for hospital treatment in the National Health Service (NHS). Freedom of Information requests made by the Labour Party found that among 35 acute NHS trusts, 30,611 people had died during 2022 while on the NHS …
Read More »Residents win prize on People’s Postcode Lottery
Residents in the Sovereign area of Eastbourne have won on the People’s Postcode Lottery (Image: Postcode Lottery) Residents of a Eastbourne street have bagged a generous prize in the People’s Postcode Lottery. Those with a lottery ticket and a BN23 5PR postcode were awarded a £1,000 win in one of …
Read More »Popular Oxfordshire man of Royal British Legion dies
He worked tirelessly for members of the Royal British Legion, the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) and other organisations. His dedication earned him the title of Citizen of the Year in his home town of Witney in 2011, before he was honoured with another award from the then …
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