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Opening hours at the main Royal Mail parcel collection office in Dumfries are to be slashed next month. The site in Great King Street will see its hours reduced from 51 to 30 as of August 8. Part of the changes will see the delivery office open just two hours, …

More details for how the £400 energy payment will be paid have been confirmed following confirmation by the Government that the scheme would go ahead. Officials confirmed on Friday, July 29, that the £400 energy payments would be paid to all households this winter as part of Energy Bills Support …

Sea shanty singer Nathan Evans has raked in more than £450,000 since quitting his job as a postman to be a full-time musician. The folk musician posted the 19th-century whaling song The Wellerman on social media app TikTok in December 2020 and quickly amassed a huge following. The 27-year-old from …

A prolific violent offender who battered his girlfriend over the head with a sound bar is back out on the streets after promising a judge he is now a changed man. Jordan Burgess attacked the woman at his former home in Woodville, near Ashby, last year. The 42-year-old abattoir worker …

Barnstone Post Office is moving to a new location at Langar Hall on Church Lane, Langar. The Post Office, which is currently at Langar cum Barnstone Village Hall on Main Road, will be closed after Tuesday August 2. The service will re-open at the new location, Langar Hall hotel and …

A 90-year-old woman who died after being hit by a Royal Mail van in Bristol has been named. Friends of a woman who died last week after a fatal collision in South Gloucestershire have said she is a “lovely lady” who will be sadly missed. Nancy Valentine, from Hanham, was …

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 …

A woman who was hit by a Royal Mail van being driven in a street in Hanham earlier this month has died from her injuries. The woman, who was in her 90s and has not yet been named by police, was struck by the van being driven along Birdwood, Hanham, …

Shares of Royal Mail plc (OTCMKTS:ROYMY – Get Rating) have received a consensus recommendation of “Hold” from the ten brokerages that are covering the firm, MarketBeat Ratings reports. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating and one has given a …

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is sitting on the largest strike mandate it has been handed for decades, refusing to name any dates for action against Royal Mail’s imposition of a 2 percent pay award this year. Around 115,000 postal workers at 1,500 workplaces returned a 97.6 percent vote for …