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A brazen burglar stole a huge haul of mail after sneaking into a postal depot in the dead of night, a court has heard. Richard Cook was seen pushing large trollies full of parcels away from the building, none of which have ever been recovered. The 36-year-old has more than …

A Northumberland daughter who took out fraudulent mobile phone contracts in the names of her family members has dodged jail. Laura Rowell was living with her mother, father and sister when she took out the contracts without their knowledge in March 2020 in order to sell the “high end” Samsung …

A Leicester City Council employee struggling with grief and depression should not have been formally disciplined for a photo of a co-worker with a sex toy stuck to his head, a tribunal has ruled. Employment Judge Richard Adkinson said the worker in the photo – who was wearing council-branded clothing …

A postal worker stole parcels worth tens of thousands of pounds to sell on his eBay account after falling into debt. Saul Myerscough stole from a Royal Mail depot over a “four or five year period” during which he hid his illicit actions from his friends and family. The Leyland …

A “friendly” postman who was highly regarded within his community has been jailed after he snuck into properties at night to steal women’s underwear. Appearing at Bouremouth Crown Court on his 59th birthday, Glen Holden was a postman for 32 years in the Sherborne area and struck up a rapport …

Press play to listen to this article LONDON — As Liz Truss gets down to work as Britain’s new prime minister, she faces an immediate problem. Half the British workforce appears to be going on strike. Across the country, rail workers, barristers, dockhands, bus drivers, garbage collectors, Amazon employees, and …

A dishonest postal worker stole letters and stamps but was given a very severe sentence in an historical case in North Wales. The thief, who worked in a Llandudno post office, was convicted and sentenced to 18 months with hard labour in the 1880s, showing how penal punishments have changed. …

TRAIN passengers face further disruption this month as railway workers announce strikes for September. Strikes or ballots for industrial action are being announced on an increasingly regular basis as workers across numerous sectors escalate their demands for better pay, amid grim forecasts over the cost of living crisis. Two strikes …

Strikes or ballots for industrial action are being announced virtually every day as workers across the country join the growing campaign for “decent” pay rises in the face of the cost-of-living crisis. Unions have described it as a “summer of solidarity” amid worsening industrial relations and accusations from union officials …

A man has denied beating a student and leaving him in the street with severe head injuries. Paul Martin David Roberts pleaded not guilty at Plymouth Crown Court to the charge of causing grievous bodily harm to the then 19-year-old Callum Turner in North Hill. Roberts, of Wordsworth Crescent, is …