The latest headlines in your inbox The latest headlines in your inbox Stamps celebrating England’s Cricket World Cup winners are to go on sale next month. Photos of the men’s and women’s national teams have been printed onto eight first class stamps, which will be available from September 26. The …
Read More »13 parcel postboxes unveiled in NR postcode area
16 August 2019, 07:17 | Updated: 16 August 2019, 07:23 Royal Mail has unveiled 13 parcel postboxes in the Norwich postcode area. They’ll allow parcels to be posted in the same way letters are. It’s the first major change of use for the postbox since it was introduced 160 years …
Read More »Leader: The tyranny of the free-market right
Public spending increased by an average of 1.1 per cent a year during her premiership, while, faced with the proposed sale of Royal Mail, the prime … Source link
Read More »Andy Murray’s gold postbox knocked down by car in hometown
A postbox painted gold in honour of Andy Murray’s 2012 Olympics triumph has been knocked down by a car. Pictures on social media showed the vehicle beside the postbox lying on the ground in the tennis star’s hometown of Dunblane. One eyewitness told PA the car “rolled back and knocked …
Read More »Labour vows to stop outsourcing ‘rip-off’ by ensuring councils take back local services
Rubbish collection, cleaning and school dinner services will be taken back by local councils, under Labour plans to stop taxpayers being “ripped off” by private firms. The party has pledged to reverse four decades of outsourcing in local government, blaming it for “scandals” such as the collapse of Carillion at a …
Read More »Kelly Mary Fauvrelle stabbing: Man charged with murder of pregnant woman and manslaughter of baby
A 25-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a heavily pregnant woman in her Croydon home and the manslaughter of her son, who was delivered by paramedics at the scene of her death. Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, a Royal Mail worker, was eight months pregnant when she was killed …
Read More »Kelly Mary Fauvrelle: Man arrested over murder of pregnant woman and her child in London
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an expectant mother and her unborn child were killed in a stabbing in south London. The 25-year-old suspect was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of the murder of Kelly-Mary Fauvrelle, 26, and her baby son, Riley, police said. The Royal …
Read More »Getting the right blend for an attractive income
If you’re running an income portfolio you would imagine that a necessary requirement for all the holdings is an attractive yield. But this is not the case for Hugo Ure, co-manager of Troy Trojan Income Fund (GB00BZ6CQ176) and Troy Income & Growth Trust (TIGT) – despite the fact these funds have yields of over …
Read More »Meghan Markle’s father Thomas reveals sadness at not being invited to Archie’s christening
The latest headlines in your inbox The latest headlines in your inbox The father of the Duchess of Sussex has revealed his sadness at not being invited to Archie’s christening. Thomas Markle, who has had a tumultuous relationship with his daughter Meghan, said he would have liked to have been …
Read More »Christmas card is returned to sender nine years after Kent grandmother first posted it
Myra Mizon sent her nieces a Christmas card and cheque in the winter of 2010. They never got it. And one day nine years later, when Ms Mizon collected her post, she discovered the card and £10 cheque she had sent almost a decade ago. We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. …
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