This week has seen students across the country head back to school after the summer break with many starting new schools as they leave their primary’s to start their secondary school careers. I would like to wish you all the best of luck in this next step. Alongside schools across …
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Born in 1937 in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Dame Shirley toured theatres and revues until she signed a record deal with Philips and scored the number one hit As I Love You in 1959. By the 1960s, she was an international star with numerous hit albums. Some of her greatest work …
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“You pay more for a worse service – that’s privatisation for you” Royal Mail has been in the headlines as of late. The privatised postal firm has recently announced that first class stamps are set to increase by 14 per cent and that it is seeking to end deliveries on …
Read More »People in Patcham are calling on the council to listen to their worries about the proposal to build a new delivery office in Patcham Court Farm, Brighton. If approved, the site would also include new storage facilities and a vehicle maintenance facility to replace the current offices in North Road …
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Postal workers at Royal Mail face a deluge of attacks on jobs, working conditions, pay, and entitlements as the Communication Workers Union’s (CWU) national agreement takes effect. Anger is growing, with ballots for industrial action in Scotland and London only the tip of the iceberg. At Hayes delivery office near …
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A set of stamps honouring Dame Shirley Bassey's 70 years in showbiz has been issued by Royal Mail – its first set dedicated to a solo female music … Source link
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ROYAL MAIL could save £225 million (€263 million) annually by axing Saturday deliveries. The company, which lost £1 billion (€1.17 billion) last year, must deliver letters from Monday to Saturday but has asked repeatedly for a review of the regulations now that fewer letters are sent. While more people, together …
Read More »Rather interestingly the slot-in day indicator said (next collection) TUE so it will be three days before my letter (fortunately 2nd class) is picked up. It all rather suggests that postboxes are now to be emptied by the deliverers on their rounds. Efficiency for them possibly, benefit for the customer …
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A set of stamps honouring Dame Shirley Bassey’s 70 years in showbiz has been issued by Royal Mail – its first collection dedicated to a solo female music artist. The eight stamps in the main set show the Welsh singer performing during her illustrious music career at a London nightclub …
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SIR – Isabel Oakeshott is lucky that she has only been waiting a year for a local road to be fixed (“Feckless councils are ripping taxpayers off”, Comment, September 4). In August 2020 we asked the authorities in Suffolk to install about 35 yards of double-yellow lines in a stretch of …
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