A hunt for a new postmaster or mistress has been launched in Portishead – with a package on offer of £80,000. Post Office Limited is advertising for a new franchise to run a main post office in the town following news McColls is to close. Retail giant Morrisons announced earlier …
Read More »Sunday newspaper round-up: Business rates, Morrisons, Royal Mail
The Chancellor will most likely not include business rates relief in his autumn statement this week. Insiders in the government have signalled that Jeremy Hunt will not give into calls to delay the uprating of business rates nor to extend relief from the tax. They are set to rise in …
Read More »Canvey Island Morrisons supermarket displays beautiful poppy dress as part of marking Remembrance Day
An Essex supermarket has displayed a beautiful poppy dress as one of many ways it is marking Remembrance Day. The dress, which is at Morrisons on Canvey Island, has been made by students from Cornelius Vermuyden school. It has been created from green foliage, scattered with red poppies, and the …
Read More »Stoke-on-Trent post office to shut after Morrisons store cull
A Stoke-on-Trent community is to be left without a post office. Abbey Hulton Post Office is closing in the New Year after Morrisons decided to shut its McColl’s branch on Abbots Road. The supermarket giant has agreed to keep the post office open until after Christmas. But customers will then …
Read More »Somerset town could be left without post office amid shop closure plans
Portishead could be left without a post office after news that McColls is to close its store in the town. Retail giant Morrisons has announced it is to close 132 of its McColls stores across the UK which it bought earlier this year in a rescue deal. The McColls store …
Read More »Asda, Aldi, Lidl, Tesco and Morrisons shoppers issued warning over using cash for their shopping
A warning has been issued to shoppers who still uses cash to pay when out at supermarkets. If you use the wrong notes at major stores like ASDA, Tesco, Aldi, M&S or Morrisons from September this year, your transaction will be rejected. This is because old £20 and £50 notes …
Read More »Asda, Tesco, Aldi, M&S, and Morrisons: Warning issued to anyone using £20 and £50 notes
You get to the check out.. you fancy using up that spare cash lingering in your wallet or purse since lockdown… you hand it over… But no, the notes are ‘wrong’ and the queue is looking. Here’s how to avoid such a scenario from September if you’re shopping at the …
Read More »Next and other big employers cut sick pay for unvaccinated workers
Next has cut sick pay for unvaccinated members of its workforce who are forced to self-isolate when someone close to them contracts the virus. Under a rule change introduced in England last month, vaccinated people no longer need to isolate even if they are ‘close contacts’ of someone who has …
Read More »2021 East Midlands Review of the Year: March to April
Over Christmas we are looking back on a remarkable year for business across the region. One that started in the midst of latest lockdown restrictions but which seemed to be on the up with vaccination roll-outs. As businesses were getting back to some level of normality, they took a fresh …
Read More »Family pay tribute to ‘proud’ Leicestershire man who died five months after cancer diagnosis
Tributes have been paid to a “proud” Leicestershire man who died after a “determined” five-month-battle with cancer. David Wheeler, from Loughborough, lost his fight with colon cancer on October 25, with daughter Sarah, and sister, Trish, by his side. The 72-year-old, of Charles Street, moved to West Yorkshire in recent …
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