[ad_1] The Royal Mail has launched an investigation after hundreds of letters were found dumped at the side of a busy road. The post, which included bills and personal letters, was collected by volunteer litter-pickers who were clearing hedgerows and grass verges by the A47, near Hinckley. Efforts are now being made by the national…
[ad_1] 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 even journalists at the…
[ad_1] Yet another pollution notice was issued on a beach in Cornwall, this time because of a build up of fat and rags. Sewage was reported at St Agnes beach earlier this weekend. Although the warning has now been removed, the Environment Agency (EA) has issued advice to residents and visitors to prevent similar incidents…
[ad_1] A university professor was taken aback when he received a handwritten letter vaguely addressed to him after he appeared as a guest on Radio Four programme ‘The Life Scientific’. The envelope had been addressed to the ‘department of Creepy Crawleys (sic) University of Gloucester, somewhere in Gloucester or Cheltenham, website doesn’t think an address…
[ad_1] • Walk, cycle or scoot short journeys: 38 per cent of car trips in London are under two miles and exhaust emissions from road traffic is the largest source of air pollution in Islington. By swapping short car journeys for active travel you will not only reduce air pollution but boost your family’s mental…
[ad_1] Postboxes in Oxfordshire were boarded up after congestion caused by road closures to create low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) meant postmen could no longer meet collection times. Royal Mail was forced to reduce services in Cowley and East Oxford after traffic was funnelled onto main roads making journey times markedly longer. A number of boxes…
[ad_1] Changes have been made to the plans for Spalding’s former delivery office building – as a scheme to transform the derelict landmark awaits a decision. Plans were lodged for flats and a shop in the empty building in The Crescent in October – prompting hopes that one of the town’s long standing eyesores might…
[ad_1] Plans have gone in to transform an eyesore in the town centre. As we have previously reported the former Spalding Sorting Office in The Crescent will be transformed into flats. Mr S Gareb has now lodged plans to change the use of the site to create 10 flats with retail on the ground floor….
[ad_1] Dozens of bodies will have to be exhumed from Bridgwater town centre to allow new flats to be built. Taunton-based developer Refresh Living No. 3 Ltd. applied to build 43 flats on a vacant brownfield site on Friarn Street, north of the busy A39 Broadway. Sedgemoor District Council’s development committee considered the proposals on…
[ad_1] The residents of a Gloucester neighbourhood are ‘fed up’ as rubbish continues to be dumped on their streets. Full bin bags, discarded cardboard boxes and other debris has been left on the street outside Bartongate Surgery. The Gothic Cottages, on Barton Street, has also fallen victim to flytipping in recent weeks, as old furniture…