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Dear Editor: The Royal Court presiding over the Salida Fantasy Faire wishes to extend thanks to all the sponsors, vendors, volunteers and especially guests who attended and participated in the fourth Salida Fantasy Faire.  FanFaire was lucky enough to partner with the Foodshed Alliance and hold the event in conjunction …

As rising costs clash with underpriced supermarket booze and overpriced mail order wine and beer clubs, it’s become a pretty depressing time to run a pub. And when those landlords and ladies — the pillars of the community who have spent years politely nodding along as you bragged about your …

I just tried to order a book of Scottish Ceilidh Tunes from the United Kingdom. I was informed that Royal Mail has suspended all mail to the U.S. … Source link

As we enter June, I wish everyone in Hertford and Stortford a happy and powerful Pride Month as we come together to celebrate the diversity of our community. As we reflect on the struggles faced by the LGBT+ community throughout history, Pride Month must also be an opportunity to recommit …

The Daily Mirror Royal Editor Russell Myers discusses Princess Kate attending her first Royal Garden Party since her cancer treatment. “You look at the sort of moving chess pieces of the Royal Family over the past few months,” Mr Myers said. “Kate is in remission; she’s finding her way back …

In our regular On This Week column, we look back to May 15-21, 2011… The arguments in favour of the proposed Lynn incinerator are “collapsing before our eyes” claimed N W Norfolk MP, Henry Bellingham. The comment came just hours before Mr Bellingham and his South West Norfolk counterpart Elizabeth …

Management gets extra points too for announcing the ploy just as many households begin to think about writing this year’s batch of Christmas cards. According to a recent analysis by The Telegraph, a first-class stamp is now so expensive that it would be cheaper to fly to some European cities …

‘What’s a pen pal’ queried one of my offspring this week – peering over the top of a school book. Born into a world of email, text and other online messaging – the concept of writing regular letters to people you may have never have met was somewhat intriguing. Royal …

Such a fate would greatly undermine the core purpose of the service. As the Greetings Card Association warns, the proposals appear to take the country “one step closer to the dismantling of a postal service that’s affordable and reliable”.  Some would say it stopped being either of those things some time …

When’s the last time you bought a postage stamp? Granted, to do that you have to locate a post office which will probably be at the back of an off licence, past piles of confectionery, rather than in one of the handsome municipal buildings where they were once to be …