A ll Royal Mail deliveries and collections will be “shut down” across Scotland during four days of strike action, a union has warned. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said services will be disrupted as a result of the industrial action, set to take place on August 26 and 31 as …
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Strikers have formed a picket line outside Whitleigh Telephone Engineering Centre today. BT and Openreach workers are on strike today in a dispute over pay and Plymouth people have been occupying a picket line since 7.30am. They have been “solidly supported” at their picket line of over 30 people with …
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R oyal Mail delivery offices across the country are deciding each day which streets do not receive letters after a “failure” in restructuring, MPs have heard. Concerns highlighted by Labour MP Barry Gardiner (Brent North) are to be raised with Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng. Mr Gardiner told the Commons: “Royal …
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A care home in Yelverton, Devon has taken its ‘home-from-home’ ethos one step further by employing three members of the same family. The Red House residential care home employs sisters Gemma Trawally and Michelle Lockley, plus their mum, Carole Capeling. Gemma, aged 39, has worked there for 19 years, starting …
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“I know that some people wouldn’t want to work with their family, but we all love it, and it really works for us.” A care home in Yelverton, Devon has taken its ‘home-from-home’ ethos one step further by employing three members of the same family. The Red House residential care …
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The Royal BC Museum in Victoria.CHAD HIPOLITO/The Globe and Mail Next week, the British Columbia government will lay out its business case for spending nearly $800-million to rebuild the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. The announcement, made May 13, was a shocker. B.C. Premier John Horgan promised a “safer, more …
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Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are presented with bread and salt during a visit to a Ukrainian church in Ottawa on their royal tour of Canada on May 18.PAUL CHIASSON/AFP/Getty Images Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, embarked on the second day of a visit to …
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Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are presented with bread and salt during a visit to a Ukrainian church in Ottawa on their royal tour of Canada on May 18.PAUL CHIASSON/AFP/Getty Images Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, embarked on the second day of a visit to …
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Prince Charles is greeted by well-wishers in St. John’s on May 17.PAUL CHIASSON/AFP/Getty Images The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall began their tour of Canada confronted by the legacy of British colonialism, and faced calls for the Crown to apologize for the trauma left behind by the …
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A wool sculpture of Prince Charles by Manitoban artist Rosemarie Péloquin.Valerie Wilcox/The Canadian Press The Prince of Wales is set to be greeted by a sheepish figure when he arrives in Canada on Tuesday: his own “woolly doppelganger.” Prince Charles will lock eyes with a life-size, hand-needle-felted bust of his …
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