The legendary Loch Ness Monster is featured on a new stamp issued by Britain’s Royal Mail as part of a collection celebrating “fabled figures from popular folklore” in the United Kingdom. The fantastic set, reportedly drawn by artist Adam Simpson and revealed on Thursday, highlights what the postal service describes …
Read More »
The new Joint Chair, David Wakefield A new Joint Chair has been appointed to Stockport NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) and Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (TGICFT). The trusts run the Stepping Hill Hospital and Tameside Hospital alongside community health services in Stockport, Tameside and Glossop. David Wakefield …
Read More »
The sale of Royal Mail to Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky has been approved by the government. Mr Kretinsky‘s company EP Group will buy the postal service’s parent company International Distribution Services (IDS). The £5.3bn deal had been agreed in May but was subject to a government review under national security …
Read More »
Police are investigating “dozens of people” at the Post Office and Fujitsu, the head of a nationwide operation has announced. A team of 100 officers nationwide are looking at potential suspects and their involvement in the Post Office scandal. Hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted for stealing from their branches …
Read More »
Royal Mail’s parent firm has blamed the budget for a failure to return to profitability, warning it cannot rule out price hikes and job cuts in response. International Distribution Services (IDS) said it had set aside £134m in the first half of its financial year, with £120m directly linked to …
Read More »
A man has died after being attacked by a shark off the coast of a remote island to the east of New Zealand. Jade Kahukore-Dixon had been diving off a boat in the Bay of Waitangi, near Chatham Island, when he was injured by the shark, local media reports said. …
Read More »
Whitbread, the FTSE-100 owner of the Premier Inn hotel chain, has kicked off the search for a successor to Adam Crozier, its chairman. Sky News has learnt that headhunters acting for Whitbread have begun sounding out possible candidates for the post. Mr Crozier, who has chaired the company since 2018, …
Read More »
Royal Mail today revealed images of a set of 12 Special Stamps being issued to celebrate one of the UK’s most innovative and influential bands of the rock and roll era, The Who. Eight stamps feature images of some of their most popular and iconic album covers: My Generation, 1965; …
Read More »
A 45-year-old man has been sentenced to four and half years in prison at Jersey’s Royal Court. Andrew Page attacked his victim, throwing her around, hitting her head against a skirting board and putting his hands around her neck several times, in December 2022. Police say she was choked until …
Read More »
After scrapping Jersey’s daily mail plane last August, Royal Mail says it will withdraw funding of Guernsey’s service in April 2025. Deliveries now come to Jersey by ferry, meaning a two-day service for post to and from the UK. When the Royal Mail scrapped the daily flights last August, it …
Read More »