Tech giants are threatening to pull out of the UK if a new law allows senior executives to be prosecuted, the Telegraph has learned. The Internet Association (IA), the official lobbying arm for companies including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Microsoft, has warned the Government that arming a new online …
Read More »What next if a company won’t deliver and won’t cancel? | Money
What happens when a company refuses to deliver an item and refuses to cancel the order? Two readers this week have found themselves in this Catch 22 situation when unspecified health and safety issues left them empty-handed and out of pocket. ST from Ashford, Kent writes: We are a charity …
Read More »Labour pledges to push councils into taking back local services | Politics
Councils will be expected to take rubbish collection, cleaning and school dinner provision back in-house under plans to reverse four decades of outsourcing to be announced by the Labour party today . In the biggest shake-up of local government since the Margaret Thatcher-inspired reforms of the 1980s, a future Jeremy …
Read More »Kelly Mary Fauvrelle’s former partner ‘accepts responsibility for killing’ | UK news
The former partner of a heavily pregnant woman who was stabbed to death in her own home has accepted responsibility for her killing, a court has heard. On Wednesday, Aaron McKenzie, 25, appeared at the Old Bailey charged with the murder of Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, 26, who was eight months …
Read More »Postal Worker Manages To Deliver Parcel By Lobbing It Through Upstairs Window
While many people can’t even seem to wee on target (sorry fellas, but it’s true), one postal worker has gone above and beyond to prove that perfect aim really isn’t that tricky – no, not by urinating accurately, but by managing to lob someone’s post through an open upstairs window. …
Read More »Gerald Shamash: The legal aid lawyer who saved Corbyn from electoral defeat | Society
Gerald Shamash has already saved Jeremy Corbyn from electoral defeat. The solicitor’s late-night dash to the Royal Mail sorting office, armed with a judge’s order, prevented delivery of politically damaging – and inaccurate – leaflets. That was 1983, the year the Labour leader was first elected to parliament for Islington …
Read More »Kelly Mary Fauvrelle: man charged with murder of pregnant woman | UK news
A 25-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a pregnant woman and the manslaughter of her baby son, who was delivered at the scene but later died. Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, was aged 26 and eight months pregnant, when she was killed in the bedroom of her home in …
Read More »Police make third arrest after stabbing of woman in Croydon home
Detectives investigating the murder of a pregnant woman and her unborn baby in Croydon, south London have arrested a third person. A 25-year-old man is now being questioned by officers at a central London police station after being detained on suspicion of murder. Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, a Royal Mail worker who …
Read More »Man, 25, arrested after deaths of pregnant woman and baby in Croydon | UK news
Police investigating the murders of a woman and her unborn child in south London have arrested a man, Scotland Yard has said. The 25-year-old man, whom officers have not named, was taken to a central London police station after being arrested on suspicion of murder on Thursday. Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, …
Read More »Royal Mail urges owners to control their dogs as number of serious attacks on postal workers rises
Royal Mail are urging pet owners to control their dogs after new figures show a sharp increase in attacks on postal workers. Almost 2,500 dog attacks on postmen and women in the last 12 months have resulted in serious and permanent injury and “could have easily ended in fatalities” according …
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