There can be no more vivid example of how dilapidated and dysfunctional the National Health Service is becoming than the news that postmen are to be deployed as makeshift care workers. Royal Mail Health, the branch of the postal service set up to deliver prescription medicine to homes during lockdown, …
Read More »Royal Mail workers demand ‘no strings, inflation-based’ pay rise as 450,000 teachers consider strike
Royal Mail workers have demanded a ‘no strings, inflation-based’ pay rise as they prepare to vote on industrial action, while 450,000 teachers are considering joining striking rail workers on the picket line. Fears of a general strike in Britain are mounting as union members across the country threaten to join …
Read More »RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Ignore the killjoys – let’s have a right royal knees-up for the Platinum Jubilee
Within about five minutes of the first lockdown coming into force, councils all over Britain started closing roads with gay abandon and without warning. Anti-car fanatics hijacked the Covid crisis to further their own ‘green’ agenda. Residents woke up to find their streets had been turned into no-go areas overnight. …
Read More »Windsor Castle crossbow suspect, 19, ‘who threatened to assassinate Queen’ held ‘Royal grudge’
A teenager suspected of scaling Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow in a bid to assassinate the Queen on Christmas Day apparently festered a two year long hatred of the Royals. Jaswant Singh Chail, 19, uploaded a pre-recorded video to Snapchat vowing revenge for the 1919 Amritsar, or Jallianwala Bagh, massacre, when British troops …
Read More »Queen’s late-night TV habit has left her ‘knackered’ royal aides say
The Queen’s late-night TV viewing and busy schedule of public engagements since lockdown restrictions were lifted have left her ‘knackered’, sources have claimed. Since returning from Balmoral this month, Her Majesty, 95, has undertaken 19 public engagements, including marking the Royal British Legion’s centenary at Westminster Abbey and opening the Scottish …
Read More »Gun laws will be examined at inquest into deaths of girls, aged four and two
Gun laws in the UK could be overhauled after a father blasted his partner and their two young children to death with a shotgun during lockdown last year. Robert Needham, 42, shot daughter Ava, four, in the chest and his two-year-old daughter Lexi in the head. He also shot his …
Read More »Queen deluged with hundreds of letters of support in wake of Meghan and Harry’s Oprah interview
Queen is deluged with hundreds of letters of support and encouragement in the wake of Meghan and Harry’s Oprah interview – and her ladies-in-waiting reply to every one Every day, sacks full of post are delivered to the Queen at Windsor Castle Cards, gifts and letters are said to be …
Read More »Downing Street ‘wants Holly Willoughby and Lorraine Kelly’ to front home Covid test campaign
Downing Street ‘wants Holly Willoughby and Lorraine Kelly’ to front celebrity campaign to urge the public to take part in mass home testing drive alongside vaccines rollout PM planning blitz that will send home-swabbing kits to millions of homes NHS Test and Trace will dish out more than 400,000 lateral …
Read More »Police to stop Valentine’s Day drivers going in and out of London for lockdown loving
Operation Heartbreak: Police to stop Valentine’s Day drivers going in and out of London for lockdown loving Motorists coming into London will be stopped, quizzed about their intentions Force not conducted regular spot checks as Covid enforcement until now Failing to stay at home without a valid reason can result …
Read More »Are Britain’s lost parcels really being auctioned off on eBay?
There’s little about a brown cardboard box to lift the spirits, not even when it’s wrapped in wrinkled clingfilm. Hard, then, to imagine that the package just handed over to us on the doorstep of a dishevelled terrace house in Street, Somerset, is one of the most sought-after items on …
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