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 …
Read More »Royal Mail paying nearly £15 an hour for Christmas shifts in Cornwall
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 …
Read More »Royal Mail looking for Christmas workers with salaries up to £17 an hour
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 …
Read More »Royal Mail jobs in Cornwall that pay £30,000
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 …
Read More »Creditors to lose millions after Hotter Shoes administration despite rescue deal
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 …
Read More »Key August 2023 benefits payment dates, law and rule changes
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, …
Read More »Closure of all county council Chesterfield offices is ‘idiotic, shoddy and disrespectful’ say opposition
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 …
Read More »Trust issues Hull Royal Infirmary A&E warning as junior doctors set for 3-day strike
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 …
Read More »DWP: £3,500 State Pension top-up could be owed to older people living on their own
A new report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) the average weekly expenditure for households aged between 65 and 74 was £455.30 in 2021/22. In total, that’s approximately £23,000 each year. Meanwhile, households, where the head is aged over 75, had an average weekly spend of £356.30 per week. …
Read More »South London neighbourhood where residents ‘forced to collect their own Royal Mail letters and haven’t seen their postman in months’
South London residents have expressed their frustration at postal services after being left for as much as two weeks without receiving their mail at home. Residents of Bromley and surrounding areas have resorted to travelling miles into town to collect their letters over the last few months, as postal staff …
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