Lincolnshire Police have cordoned off an area of South End in Boston. There are numerous reports of officers outside the Royal Mail sorting office and Boston Grammar School. One man claims armed police and four police cars have been seen in the area, with one parked across the road. A …
Read More »Message in a bottle school kids sent souvenirs by Scottish beach cleaner who found it
Schoolchildren who sent a message in a bottle into the sea were thrilled when it washed up on a beach in Scotland – and they were tracked down and sent treats. Anne Smillie, 68, discovered three notes inside a glass jar while picking up litter along the beach in Barassie, …
Read More »Sage chairman Sir Donald Brydon announces timeline for departure
Newcastle software group Sage has announced that chairman Sir Donald Brydon will step down next year. Sir Donald has indicated that he will retire next September, by which time he will have been in post for nine years. The company has set up a process to identity his successor, which …
Read More »Governance Watch – September 2020
Manifest-Minerva’s Thomas Bolger takes a look at key issues at upcoming AGMs, focusing this month on issues at Royal Mail. Royal Mail’s 2020 annual general meeting (AGM) on 8 September takes place against a backdrop of management changes and ongoing business challenges that have been heighted by the coronavirus pandemic. …
Read More »Complaint after ‘transphobic’ leaflets found at Royal Mail sorting office in Edinburgh
The Royal Mail says it has binned leaflets left at its Portobello delivery office after complaints from a local resident who said that the material in the flyers was ‘hateful’ and ‘transphobic’. The flyers opposed the Scottish Government’s draft Gender Recognition Reform Bill. The bill, which would simplify the process …
Read More »Royal Mail lorry ‘topples over’, closing main Forest of Dean road
A main road at Littledean in the Forest of Dean has been closed after a Royal Mail lorry crashed. The emergency services have been with the incident, which has closed the A4151 Elton Road from Littledean Jail to Elton Corner whilst the recovery of the vehicle takes place. Police are …
Read More »The best GCSE present ideas you can order online
GCSE results day has arrived and millions of students across the country will be finding out the results of their exams. Families and friends may not be able to celebrate with their loved ones as easily as previous years due to lockdown restrictions but there are ways to show how …
Read More »Frustrated families in this ST postcode get mail delivered just once in 15 days as Covid-hit posties forced off work
Families in a Stoke-on-Trent neighbourhood have been left waiting for important letters due to a lack of postal deliveries. Residents in Chell Heath say they have only had one delivery of letters and parcels since the end of July. They say they have also been told they cannot collect their …
Read More »Edinburgh jobs: Royal Mail launches huge recruitment drive for new postal workers
We don’t want to say the dreaded ‘C’ word but… Royal Mail is recruiting staff to help sort the Christmas post. Britain’s biggest delivery company is expecting the usual seasonal flurry of greeting cards and parcels containing presents this year – even more so in the current climate when people …
Read More »Hunt for post box ‘sawn off it’s mount’ during theft in Cotswolds
A hunt is on for a stolen post box that was sawn off from its mount in the Cotswolds. The theft of the Royal Mail post box took place between 4.45pm on Thursday August 6, and 1pm on Friday August 7, on the B4068 near to Naunton. Sharing a photo …
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