News The healthcare assistants’ revolt spread from England to Wales this week, plus couriers strike in London and bus drivers in Scotland win big Downloading PDF. Please wait… Tuesday 19 November 2024 Issue Hospital workers on strike at Royal Liverpool Hospital (Photo: X/@TUCNorthWest) The healthcare assistants’ (HCAs) revolt spread from …
Read More »Finlay MacDonald: Skye murder accused felt ‘humiliated’ by brother-in-law | UK News
A man accused of murdering his brother-in-law claimed an attack on him by the alleged victim nine years earlier was the beginning of all his “problems”. Finlay MacDonald, 41, said he was humiliated and left with low self-esteem after John MacKinnon reportedly assaulted him in 2013. MacDonald told his murder …
Read More »Public react to Post Office potential mass closure
Since news broke that the Post Office could be closing a large number of its branches, the public has been considering how they would feel if their local branch was to close. The Post Office could be set to close 115 “loss-making” branches across the UK putting more than 1000 …
Read More »Royal Mail deliveries to Clyde Tower in East Kilbride suspended after postal workers ‘threatened with dog’ | UK News
Royal Mail has suspended deliveries to a tower block in South Lanarkshire after two postal workers were reportedly threatened by a tenant with a dog. Residents of Clyde Tower in East Kilbride have been notified their mail will now have to be collected from their nearest Post Office, around a …
Read More »Man killed in New Zealand ‘great white’ shark attack
A man has died after being attacked by a shark off the coast of a remote island to the east of New Zealand. Jade Kahukore-Dixon had been diving off a boat in the Bay of Waitangi, near Chatham Island, when he was injured by the shark, local media reports said. …
Read More »Expanding village needs its post services back says shopkeeper
A storekeeper is hoping the major restructuring of The Post Office will be an opportunity for smaller post offices to be installed in existing shops. The Post Office has announced transformation plans, which involve the potential closure of 115 branches, including Grimsby’s on Victoria Street South. All are its larger …
Read More »Royal Mint’s rarest 50p coin sells for £123 on eBay
The King Charles III Atlantic Salmon 50p sparked a mini bidding war amid coin collectors on the auction site, as 37 bids were made on the rare coin before it sold for £123. The Royal Mint named the coin as the rarest currently in circulation in the UK in September, with …
Read More »MP and residents ‘disappointed’ by Royal Mail lease grant
The cabinet at Brighton and Hove City Council approved the leasehold grant of the site in Patcham Court Farm at a meeting on Wednesday afternoon. The lease will be for a term of 250 years of the site to Royal Mail for the provision of a 4,145sqm delivery office. Residents in Patcham have been fighting …
Read More »Former Royal Mail CFO receives honorary doctorate from UWS
University of the West of Scotland (UWS) bestowed an honorary doctorate upon Angela Noon OBE, group chief financial officer of Spectris PLC, during its winter graduation ceremony at Paisley Abbey on 15 November. In addition to her position as CFO of precision instrumentation and controls group Spectris PLC, Ms Noon …
Read More »Two Metropolitan Police officers charged with sexual assault of woman
Two Metropolitan Police officers have been charged with sexually assaulting a woman while off duty. Jerome Beasley, 41, and Luke Robinson, 39, who work in the force’s Central West Command Unit, are set to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. They are each accused of four counts of sexual …
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