[ad_1] Mark Walker, 38, says he threw two punches at a customer who, he claims, had kicked his van and tried to hit him following a row over a parcel in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent Delivery driver Mark Walker has been suspended after, he says, a customer attacked him and he fought back ( Image: BPM MEDIA)…
[ad_1] A Royal Mail delivery driver has been suspended after getting into a fight with a customer in the street following a row over a parcel. Mark Walker said he threw two punches in “self-defence” after coming under attack from an angry customer. The 38-year-old agency worker has now been suspended without pay amid an…
[ad_1] Royal Mail delivery driver Mark Walker has been suspended on no pay after a row over a parcel ended in a street fight with punches being thrown. The 38-year-old says he had left a parcel on the doorstep of a Longton property after failing to get an answer. But as he attempted to drive…
[ad_1] Retired electrician John Binsley was found dead on a beach near Skegness – after his neighbours in a Staffordshire village had not seen him for ‘several months’. A report by medics following the 71-year-old’s death has found he had taken excessive amounts of paracetamol and codeine. Staffordshire Police detectives say Mr Binsley, from Yoxall,…
[ad_1] Police are investigating after a Royal Mail postbox was mown down by a delivery driver in the city centre. The red pillar box – on Trinity Street, in Hanley – was struck by the delivery vehicle on Wednesday night. It was knocked completely out of the ground in the incident, leaving a hole in…
[ad_1] Post boxes have been dug out of the ground and stolen from a village near Burton. A postman on their round noticed two of the post boxes were missing and the Royal Mail’s Burton delivery office reported it to Staffordshire Police. The first was situated on the soft verge next to the phone box…
[ad_1] A postman was ‘immediately suspended’ from duty after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman as he delivered her mail. Royal Mail is investigating the allegation which has been made by a Stoke-on-Trent woman and dates back to the summer. The same allegation has been lodged with Staffordshire Police. The woman says she was…
[ad_1] Royal Mail has come under fire over the sacking a long-serving postman who was called in to work at short notice on his week off at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Daniel Austin had already drunk a large amount of strong cider when he received the call from bosses asking him to work…
[ad_1] Postman Darren Beech took his own life after he had been struggling during the Covid-19 lockdown. The 50-year-old was found dead by his two brothers at his Kidsgrove home on May 17. An inquest into his death at Stoke’s civic centre heard he was found in the bath, a day after appearing anxious while…
[ad_1] The company that owns Alton Towers is giving away 30,000 tickets to emergency services and support workers across the world. Merlin Entertainments is donating the tickets to people in Asia, North America, Australia and New Zealand as well as 10,000 in the UK. Most of the tickets in the UK will be made available…