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Christmas is on its way once again, with only 100 days until the big day. And with friends and family sending cards and gifts, Royal Mail is looking to recruit new staff to help with the increasing demand over the period. The company is hiring seasonal mail sorters in Tonbridge …

An Essex construction firm has been slapped with a £40,000 fine after a groundworker suffered horrific injuries when 160kg drainage pipes fell on him. Anthony Pennell was rushed to Royal Stoke University Hospital having sustained several fractures to both sides of his pelvis, as well as a fractured vertebrae and …

Royal Mail has begun recruiting workers in Devon to help sort Christmas cards and parcels during the busy festive period. It says the extra hands are needed for day and night shifts in Exeter to play a “key role in delivering Christmas to the nation”. The company says: “The festive …

Royal Mail has started the Christmas countdown by recruiting workers in Cornwall for the busy festive period. Extra hands are needed for day and night shifts in Truro to play a “key role in delivering Christmas to the nation”, says the company. Depending on the shifts, employees at the Truro …

Christmas is a time of giving, which also makes it a time when parcels zip up and down the country. To meet high demand at its busiest time of year, Royal Mail is looking to recruit new staff over the Christmas period. The company is looking to recruit mail sorters …

We live in one of the most beautiful parts of the UK. So getting out and about in our countryside, whilst also enjoying plenty of exercise, working for the Royal Mail is a relatively attractive proposition. The popularity and convenience of online shopping isn’t fading – our posties are being …

The creditors of Hotter Shoes face a shortfall of more than £11m after its collapse into administration despite a rescue deal being completed. The Skelmersdale-headquartered company was the main subsidiary of AIM-listed Unbound Group and was the trading name of Beaconsfield Footwear. Over 400 jobs were saved when Hotter Shoes …

This August will see many changes to people’s lives through a variety of new rules, regulations and other alterations. There is a Bank Holiday which will mean changes to the date people will receive benefits payments and people will also see the continued support from the government’s energy price guarantee, …

A move to close all county council offices in Chesterfield and transfer 500 staff has been criticised as “idiotic, shoddy and disrespectful”. This week the Local Democracy Reporting Service exclusively detailed Derbyshire County Council ’s plans to close all 10 of its Chesterfield area offices, including one apiece in Clay …

People are being urged to avoid Hull Royal Infirmary’s emergency department over the next few days as junior doctors go out on strike. Some routine operations and non-urgent appointments are also having to be rearranged as the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust takes action to mitigate against the loss …