FILE – Royal Mail worker Leila delivers mail in Balham, London, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Britain’s postal service said it was hit Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023 by a “cyber incident” that’s temporarily preventing it from sending letters or parcels to other countries. (Kirsty O’Connor/PA via AP, File) (Kirsty O’Connor/PA via …
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A Royal Mail driver has been caught on camera overtaking a car and then dangerously swerving around a pony on a quiet new New Forest road. Dash cam footage captured the moment …
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A jogger takes a break on beside Mont Royal Chalet on the Mount Royal in Montreal on Oct. 29, 2020.Andrej Ivanov/The Globe and Mail Keep your Opinions sharp and informed. Get the Opinion newsletter. Sign up today. Not as it seems Re Parents, Minor-league Associations Question Transparency Of Hockey Canada’s …
Read More »Real estate brokerage Royal LePage cuts Canadian home price forecast for 2022
Royal LePage is cutting its expectations for the growth in home prices this year after it says prices in the second quarter fell compared with the first three months of the year. The real estate brokerage says it now expects the aggregate price of a home in Canada in the …
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Read More »FTSE 100 movers: Home construction, Financial stocks pace gains
Home construction stocks were pacing gains on the stock market at the end of the week, benefitting from the tail-wind of the Bank of England’s policy meeting the day before, which saw rate-setters temper their outlook for interest rates. Berkeley Group Holdings, Barratt Developments and Taylor Wimpey were all near …
Read More »UK Post Office inquiry hears from workers wrongfully accused
LONDON (AP) — A public inquiry opened in London on Monday to examine the wrongful convictions of hundreds of British postal workers who were accused of theft, fraud or false accounting because of a faulty computer system. Between 2000 and 2014, more than 700 postal workers were wrongfully accused, with …
Read More »The royal fashion star who lost everything (even her name)
When Elizabeth Emanuel designed the world’s most famous wedding dress, no one could have predicted the devastation that lay ahead. Anna Pursglove hears her extraordinary story of dodgy investors, poverty and that troublesome ex-husband It’s 1981 and in a small studio on Mayfair’s Brook Street, a 28-year-old fashion designer is …
Read More »Postman leaves vulnerable 72-year-old woman lying in snow
A postman has been caught on camera leaving a vulnerable 72-year-old woman lying in the snow after a fall. The postie said he was “too knackered” to help Patricia Stewart after she slipped outside her home in Falkirk, Scotland, and called to him for assistance. Ms Stewart was only rescued …
Read More »Kate: A Queen in the making
As Kate marks her 39th birthday this weekend, Hannah Betts looks back at the decade that saw Miss Middleton become a Royal force to be reckoned with Yesterday, the Duchess of Cambridge turned 39. In April, she will celebrate her tenth wedding anniversary, 20 years after she and her husband …
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