Royal Navy’s new £3.1bn aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth finally sets sail from Portsmouth to join a dozen US and UK F-35B fighter jets in the North Sea for final battle-ready tests – after Covid outbreak among crew delayed mission 65,000-tonne warship sailed out in glorious sunshine on Monday to …
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Rail franchising has been ‘ended’ by extending measures introduced to keep trains running after the coronavirus outbreak, the Department for Transport (DfT) has announced. Operators have been moved to ‘transitional contracts’ ahead of the creation of a ‘simpler and more effective structure’ which will be developed over the coming months, …
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The family of an 18-year-old disabled lad whose life was transformed by DIY SOS say they are ‘desperately seeking answers’ to his lonely and mysterious death after being admitted to hospital with gastric illness during lockdown. Devastated father Darren Hudson says his son Ollie was spending a night in hospital …
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Pictured: Hit and run victim, 47, who was deliberately mown down in Iceland supermarket car park as police continue hunt for driver John Avers was declared dead at the scene in Dagenham supermarket car park Witnesses said Mr Avers was hit multiple times by a car while on the ground …
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A Royal Mail delivery driver has been sacked for drink driving after he was called in to work on his week off because the office was ‘really busy’. Daniel Austin had already drunk a large amount of strong cider when he received the call from bosses asking him to work …
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The Royal Mint is set to go more than a decade without producing any new 2p or £2 coins after cash usage slumped over the last 10 years and the country handed back its old change, an official report claims. Figures published in a National Audit Office report into Britain’s …
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will feature in the first ever televised TIME’s 100 Most Influential People list A promotional video released by E! News Wednesday shows a handful of stars who will be honored on TIME’s prestigious list for 2020 TIME’s 100 Most Influential People list will be broadcast …
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Natwest and Royal Bank of Scotland customers across the country were locked out of their accounts and left unable to use their payment cards for hours following a huge system breakdown. Many took to social media on Wednesday evening to complain about their money disappearing, being unable to make payments …
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While there has been a postal service available in Newry from as far back as 1564, Newry only became a Post Town in 1784, the year the Irish Post Office separated from the English Post Office. Sometime after 1761, the Post Office was relocated from Market Street to Marcus Square …
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Prince Andrew ‘is airbrushed out of Prince Philip’s 100th birthday celebrations’: Scandal-hit royal ‘won’t be invited to major events and won’t feature in photo exhibition’ Andrew, 60, is reportedly not being invited to major events for the milestone Prince Philip is due to turn 100 next June but allegedly won’t …
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