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A number of Royal Mail postboxes in a rural town have been sealed up over “security fears” after a postman is believed to have lost the keys to open them. The 10 boxes on Canvey Island, in Essex, have been taken out of use following concerns that the original keys …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …