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NORTH Belfast MP John Finucane has hit out at the Tories Levelling Up grants, as the list of those who missed out on funding grows. Among the projects which had unsuccessfully applied for the money were the Belfast Rapid Transit Phase Two which is set to see the Glider service …

Will Harry still be Duke of Sussex? The answer may rest on whether he can repair his fractured relationship with the King and Prince William There are questions on whether Prince Harry should keep his Duke of Sussex title  44% of Britons say he should lose titles and 32% have …

R oyal Mail is continuing to ask customers to refrain from posting items to overseas destinations while it investigates a cyber attack. The company said it was experiencing “severe disruption” to its international export services and is temporarily unable to dispatch items overseas. But it did not provide any updates …

Last ditch talks to stop this month’s rail strike hell collapsed today, meaning Britain faces another miserable ‘virtual Christmas’. Walkouts will commence from tomorrow after the RMT union’s decision to reject a new pay deal, which, along with heavy snow, is threatening to grind the country to a halt through the …

Ministers have declined an offer from nursing union bosses to postpone a strike due to cripple the NHS next week in exchange for face-to-face talks over pay.  The Royal College of Nursing had offered to ‘press pause’ on a walkout in exchange for discussions with health Secretary Steve Barclay, amid …

Carla Lockhart said: “In recent days I have been contacted by constituents who have been awaiting correspondence relating to health care appointments, and who received the letter with the appointment details after the scheduled date. They have therefore missed important health intervention, whilst valuable time for healthcare clinicians at a …

R oyal Mail has clashed with the main union representing postal workers as they staged another strike in the long-running dispute over jobs, pay and conditions. The company said it has written to Dave Ward, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), claiming a pattern of “wholly unacceptable behaviour” …

ROYAL Mail workers in Northern Ireland joined thousands across the UK for a second day of strike action today. Workers in Belfast, Downpatrick, Dungannon, Derry, Antrim, Ballyclare, Crumlin and Portadown were among many posting pictures from the picket line. An estimated 115,000 from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) joined the …

Royal Mail staff have voted overwhelming to strike at 1,000 delivery offices over plans to sack and redeploy delivery managers. Managers at the postal service decided to back walkouts by 86% in Great Britain and 89% in Northern Ireland which will affect 2,400 staff.  Its union Unite blamed ‘boardroom greed’ at …

Maybe it’s from our English forebears, whose Royal Mail Service was started in 1516, that our nation’s founders were inspired to establish the U.S. Post Office, which they did definitively by making sure it was part of our federal Constitution (Article II, Sec. 8, #7). Since then, the U.S. Postal …