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All mobile phones across the United Kingdom (UK) will get a siren-like alert next month as the government tests a new public warning system. According to an official statement on Sunday (March 19), the “Emergency Alerts service is launched and is in operation from today, and the UK-wide alerts test will …

The Royal Mail issued the final set of stamps featuring the late British Queen Elizabeth II’s silhouette. They were released on Tuesday (February 28) to commemorate 100 years of the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive. This comes as the future commemorative stamps will soon appear with a silhouette of King Charles …

In what has emerged as Britain’s largest coordinated strike action in a generation, up to half a million teachers, civil servants, train drivers and university lecturers walked out of their places of work on Wednesday over pay and conditions. The strike resulted in the shutting down of schools across Britain, …

Rishi Sunak has been urged to drop “unspeakably cruel” policies to lift half a million children out of poverty. SNP MP Kirsten Oswald has urged the Prime Minister to U-turn on his decision to back the two-child limit and benefit cap policies set by his predecessors. Households with more than …

Royal Mail delivery staff in the United Kingdom launched a 48-hour strike on Friday, a move attached to a worsening dispute over pay. Postal deliveries across the country were hit after Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) walked out.  The union said the walkout by about 115,000 of its …

Britain’s Royal Mail is commemorating an LGBTQI+ event in London considered landmark development for gay rights in the UK. Royal Mail has released a set of eight illustrate stamps. These illustrations are made by award-winning artist Sofie Birkin. On July 1, 1972, a group of people gathered in London’s famed …

A postie in the UK has been filmed allegedly kicking a pet dog across the floor while delivering parcels. Distressing footage captured by a doorbell camera in Greater Manchester shows a Royal Mail postal worker handing over several parcels before a pet dog barks and runs towards him. The postman …

Shocking footage has captured the moment a postman kicked a family dog as he delivered a parcel to a family in Greater Manchester. The Royal Mail worker was delivering the parcel to the family’s home last month when the door was opened by a teenage girl. Watch the shocking incident …

Reuters Now Posted Another lockdown party scandal embroiled Boris Johnson on Friday, as it emerged his staff partied at his Downing Street residence on the eve of the funeral of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth’s husband, Philip. Indoor gatherings were banned at the time. Source link

World Posted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered his “heartfelt apologies” on Wednesday for attending a “bring your own booze” gathering at his official residence during the country’s first coronavirus lockdown as opponents said he must resign. Olivia Chan reports. Source link