A pay dispute has led to a flurry of Post Office workers going on strike over the jubilee weekend. Members of the Communication Workers Union at Crown Post Offices – one of the larger branches most seen on high streets- will stage a walkout on Saturday while both administration and …
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Tom Rachman is a Canadian-British writer based in London. His new novel, The Imposters, comes out next year. Horses dragged the golden carriage through London, eight glum beasts clopping no faster than you’d walk, owing to the tonnage of the absurd vehicle, with its carved cherubs, palm trees and sea …
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A four day weekend will soon be upon us, courtesy of the Queen celebrating her Platinum Jubilee. The spring bank holiday, which usually falls on the last Monday in May, has been moved to Thursday 2 June instead. Together with the special Queen’s Jubilee bank holiday on Friday 3 June, …
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In this file photo taken on June 12, 2021 Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II watches a military ceremony to mark her official birthday at Windsor Castle on June 12, 2021 in Windsor. — AFP pic Thursday, 26 May 2022 11:49 AM MYT LONDON, May 26 — The Sun newspaper’s Arthur Edwards, …
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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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Charles, Prince of Wales, greets people as he visits Canada House in London on May 12. He and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, visit Canada from May 17 to May 19.HANNAH MCKAY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Royal visit: Latest updates Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are …
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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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Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, in London on March 14.Chris Jackson/Getty Images Charles, Prince of Wales, will make his 19th official visit to Canada on May 17 to 19 with his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, ahead of an important milestone in his mother’s reign. The trip comes …
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Prince Charles and Camilla meet with representatives from local community projects supported by Meta as they attend the opening of the new office of Meta in central London on March 30.KIRSTY O’CONNOR/AFP/Getty Images Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are set to return to Canada in May, their first visit …
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Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall, Anne Princess Royal, Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, Prince William, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, attend a service of thanksgiving for late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London on March 29.POOL/Reuters Queen Elizabeth made …
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