Royal Mail installs first red postbox featuring King’s cypher

Royal Mail installs first red postbox featuring King’s cypher

It's located in Great Cambourne, south Cambridgeshire. The first red postbox bearing King Charles III’s cypher has been installed, the Royal Mail has announced. The historic round pillar box, considered a British classic, is on the High Street in Great Cambourne, south Cambridgeshire. Youngsters from Vine Inter-Church Primary School in Upper Cambourne helped unveil the addition to the village on Friday and posted the first letters into the freestanding stainless […]

July 12, 2024 7

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Triple crossbow murder suspect arrested

26 year old Kyle Clifford has been arrested on suspicion of three counts of murder, and remains in a serious condition in hospital. The man suspected of the crossbow murders of three family members of a BBC racing commentator has been arrested. Kyle Clifford, 26, was arrested on suspicion of three counts of murder on Thursday evening and remains in a serious condition in hospital. Carol Hunt, 61, the wife […]

July 12, 2024 7

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Drivers warned major roads will be ‘incredibly busy’ as M25 closes

It will be closed between Junctions 10 and 11 in Surrey from 9pm on Friday. Drivers are being warned to expect delays as a planned M25 closure starts on Friday. The AA said many major roads in the South East will be “incredibly busy” as National Highways shuts the motorway between Junctions 10 and 11 in Surrey from 9pm on Friday to 6am on Monday. This will be the third […]

July 12, 2024 4

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Ofsted facing ‘existential crisis’ and urgent reform needed – former inspectors

Ofsted is facing an “existential crisis” and “piecemeal change” is not enough, former senior inspectors have said. The new education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, and the chief inspector of schools, must take “urgent principled action” to reform the current inspection regime, according to a report. Ofsted has come under scrutiny after the death of headteacher Ruth Perry. Mrs Perry took her own life after an Ofsted report downgraded her Caversham Primary […]

July 12, 2024 5

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Colleagues of crossbow murder victim pay tribute

Colleagues of the daughter of a BBC racing commentator have paid tribute to the “fantastic therapist”, after she was murdered with a crossbow alongside her mother and sister. Suspect Kyle Clifford, 26, is in hospital after being found injured during Wednesday’s manhunt for the alleged killer. Hannah Hunt, 28, the daughter of BBC 5 Live racing commentator John Hunt, was killed alongside her mother Carol Hunt, 61, and sister Louise, […]

July 11, 2024 4

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Biden ‘declines’ to step aside and tells Democrats to focus on beating Trump

US President Joe Biden is standing firm against calls for him to drop his candidacy for a second term, calling for an “end” to the intra-party drama that has torn apart the Democrats. Mr Biden wrote in the two-page letter on Monday that “the question of how to move forward has been well-aired for over a week now. And it’s time for it to end”. He stressed that the party has “one […]

July 8, 2024 5

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Relief mixed with concern among European leaders over French poll results

Leaders across Europe have expressed relief but also some concern over the results of the snap election in France which left a key EU country facing the prospect of a hung parliament and political paralysis. Relief, because the far-right National Rally did not come out as the strongest party, as many pro-European leaders had feared – but also concern, because no political grouping has a majority in the National Assembly. […]

July 8, 2024 3

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Israeli PM dissolves war cabinet tasked with steering war in Gaza

It follows departure of of Benny Gantz. Israeli officials have said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the influential war cabinet that was tasked with steering the war in Gaza. The war cabinet was dissolved following the departure from the government of Benny Gantz, an opposition legislator who had joined the coalition in the early days of the war. He had demanded that a small cabinet be formed as […]

June 17, 2024 8

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Territorial integrity of Ukraine “must be basis of peace deal”

Eighty countries have jointly called for the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine to be the basis for any peace agreement to end Russia’s war, though some key developing nations at a Swiss conference did not sign up. The joint communique on Sunday capped a two-day conference at the Burgenstock resort in Switzerland marked by the absence of Russia, which was not invited, but that many attendees hoped could join in on […]

June 17, 2024 6

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