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Royal Mail staff, nurses, paramedics, rail workers and Border Force officials will all stage walkouts over jobs, pay and conditions this month as Brits prepare for mayhem over Christmas.  December is being described as the ‘new winter of discontent’ – with bus workers, baggage handlers, environment agency staff and paramedics …

Huge piles of undelivered post are reportedly being left out in the elements at a Royal Mail Centre.  Staff at the Filton, Bristol, site also claim they have been told by management to bin flyers and promotional mail with questions raised by the union over the legality of that decision. …

Ministers have declined an offer from nursing union bosses to postpone a strike due to cripple the NHS next week in exchange for face-to-face talks over pay.  The Royal College of Nursing had offered to ‘press pause’ on a walkout in exchange for discussions with health Secretary Steve Barclay, amid …

They don’t understand the upset and misery it causes’: Families and small business owners describe the impact of strikes on their lives this Christmas Families and small business owners claim strikes are inflicting misery on lives   Royal Mail action could be ‘the final nail in the coffin’ for small businesses  ‘Hundreds of …

Christmas cards ‘won’t arrive until February’ because of Royal Mail backlogs, union sources have warned, as hundreds of postal workers marched with ‘Grinch Lynch’ on the first day of mass walkouts. Communication Workers Union (CWU) members congregated outside Parliament in central London yesterday – joined by RMT union leader Mick Lynch …

New details on Royal Mail’s Christmas strikes have been revealed, with customers warned to ‘allow plenty of time’ for festive post and presents to arrive, as the second of seven strikes before Christmas commences. Britain is facing the prospect of a winter of chaos with industrial action set to cripple …

Thousands of postal workers are taking a further day of strikes today as the UK braces itself for a Christmas of industrial actions. Around 11,000 members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) have been locked in a dispute over changes to working conditions with Royal Mail and shows little sign …

Meghan and Harry today took a series of new swipes at the Royal Family and Britain in their new and incendiary Netflix series being described as a transatlantic ‘TV bomb’ aimed at The Firm. Episode one begins with a thinly veiled attack on Buckingham Palace’s decision not to co-operate with …

Royal experts are rounding on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after their latest Netflix documentary trailer used a picture taken during an approved photo opp in South Africa was used to suggest intrusion from the press. Just days after an image in the first teaser was revealed to be …

The 2022 British Fashion Awards saw stars descending on London’s Royal Albert Hall on Monday, with celebrities including Rita Ora, Naomi Campbell, Lily James and Florence Pugh leading the red carpet. The British Fashion Awards, one of the most anticipated moments of the global fashion calendar, celebrates fashion at the …