Tag Archives: Human Interest

A charity fundraiser laid low with Covid-19 has told how a diet of Marmite on toast helped him recover. Dale Howting, 86, who was known as Sittingbourne’s Whistling Postman when he worked for the Royal Mail, has been missing from the High Street where he normally sits on his push …

A frustrated resident says she is not satisfied with the response by a delivery company to her lost parcel. Diane Warner, of Holme, sent £93-worth of goods to her isolating son in Southampton in November ­— but it never arrived. A £93 parcel belonging to Diane Warner of Langford Lane, …

A postman has decked out his trolley to help spread Christmas cheer on his rounds for another year. Phil Padgett, of Newark, and his Santa’s sleigh-themed Royal Mail trolley have put residents in a festive mood. PHIL delivers Christmas cheer (43621910) Charmaine Fenton, who sees Phil during his postal round, …

Whistling postman Dale Howting has turned to ‘airmail’ to post his charity cheques. Every year the former Sittingbourne postie collects money from his pedal bike and then delivers the cheques to all the recipients. But this year, because of the coronavirus pandemic, he decided a more practical solution would be …

An elderly woman fell into the River Stort after slipping on a stretch of towpath in Sawbridgeworth which had been highlighted as being “extremely dangerous” and “treacherous”. The woman, believed to be in her late 70s, was walking along the path between Station Road and Sheering Mill Lock with a …

A calendar filled with lockdown artwork has been launched to help raise funds for a little boy living with an incurable muscle wasting illness. Five-year-old Digby Donnelly from Deal was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) in 2017, aged two. Artist Bryony Sadler, Digby Donnelly and mum Lisa Donnelly celebrate …

Thoughtful postman Les Wheeler is bringing a smile to residents’ faces on his rounds – by sending them best wishes on their birthdays. The postie, who often covers the Carlby, Careby, Holywell and Aunby route, has got to know lots of people over the past four years. And when he …

From Darth Vader to an Oompa Loompa, postman Stewart McGeoch has donned a whole host of outfits throughout lockdown . But now, as life returns to normal, he has decided to say goodbye to the eclectic outfits and return to work in his usual rig. At the beginning of lockdown …

Not many people can say they have been sent a letter from a giant, but for one Mellis Primary School pupil, that is the end of a beautiful fairytale. Sophia Nunn has been reading Jack and the Beanstalk as part of her online education during lockdown, with the seven-year-old set …

Having been lying on the floor of her Gayton home with a faulty heart for hours, a 78-year-old woman was indebted to her postman for saving her life. Jennifer Eaton, of Lime Kiln Road, passed out during the night and lay helpless without being able to move to call an …