An embarrassed mum-to-be has wet herself after Royal Mail delivery office staff refused her use of the loo. Desperate Chelsea Hastie is due to give birth on Christmas Day and was picking up a parcel from when she realised she had no chance of getting home in time. The 23-year-old …
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Public ownership of rail, water, energy, buses, Royal Mail, broadband and the NHS would save the UK nearly £13billion every year, a study has found. And the money saved could be ploughed into improving public services, creating jobs, boosting local economies and delivering green policies, according the anti-privatisation group We …
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An angry neighbour has taken aim at a ‘selfish’ motorist’s bad parking – claiming they were preventing the Royal Mail from delivering the post. But while most observers could agree the parking left a lot to be desired, the note left on the car had the Internet tickled. Scrawled in …
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A little girl who sent a birthday card to her dad “in heaven” was overjoyed to learn it had been successfully delivered. Hollie Morgan, six, posted the handmade card to her dad Nigel to mark his 47th birthday after his death last year. And days later she was told her …
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Alexander Quan was left fighting for his life when a Royal Mail truck ploughed into a hotel and flung him through a window. He was celebrating his 38th birthday when the freak accident happened on October 15, 2010. The 7.5 tonne truck smashed into the hotel and the impact flung …
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Writing to Father Christmas is a festive tradition we can all get behind. For children it makes the event that bit more special – and for the parents you get a handy list of what the kids are hankering after. The better news is that Royal Mail have a free …
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When Brits are polled on life’s most stressful experiences, buying a property tends to feature right at the top, and with good reason. Finding a property you like can be difficult enough, before you go through the rigmarole of getting a mortgage in place, and moving all of your gear …
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A Royal Mail postman was sacked after being just one minute late with a special delivery. Robert Lockyer, who had been in the job for 28 years, was tasked with delivering the package to a bank by 1pm. But Kent Live says, though he got there at 12.56pm, Mr Lockyer …
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THE grandson of a postman wrongly implicated in the Great Train Robbery has told of his relief that another person has now been identified as the shadowy figure known as “the Ulsterman”. Mark McKenna said the descendants of Patrick McKenna never believed claims the unassuming Royal Mail worker could have …
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The only other music artist to get such an honour from the Royal Mail is David Bowie Sir Elton John is feeling first class after getting his own set of stamps. The pop legend, 72, said: “Never did I think I’d appear on a stamp…! It’s wonderful, a great honour.” …
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