Author: Blake Foster

At the moment, the courier adheres to the current one-price-goes-anywhere principle of the Universal Service Obligation (USO), which means it must deliver post six days a week, from Monday to Saturday. However, new reforms will allow the firm to stop delivering second-class mail on Saturdays and, instead, deliver it on an alternative mid-week day. First-class stamps will remain unaffected by this change, with letters using these still being delivered six days a week. We’re reforming the UK’s postal service so it delivers what people need:✅ First Class still next-day Mon-Sat📆 Second Class: every other weekday🛑 New delivery targets to cut long delays💷 2nd class stamp…

Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakely outside the Hampstead pub in April 1955, and just three months later was executed at Holloway Prison. Although she confessed to the murder, there were extenuating circumstances – with Ellis enduring physical and verbal abuse from Blakely, and a miscarriage 10 days before the shooting. A group of people outside Holloway Prison on July 13, 1955 the day Ruth Ellis was hanged for the murder of her lover David Blakely. (Image: PA) Pop-up theatre The Glade staged a poignant evening of performance, music, dance and poetry on the anniversary of the murder, which transformed The Magdala into an immersive theatre with 80…

Enfield Council is holding a public consultation on planned parking charges at the Forty Hall Estate public car park to improve traffic management and enhance environmental sustainability. The proposed parking rates range from £2 for up to one hour to £10 for over four hours, and will apply from 9am until 8pm each day. Parking will remain free for periods of less than 30 minutes. Dr Martin Dearne, director of excavations and research for Enfield Archaeological Society, which conducts digs at the historic Elsyng Palace site at Forty Hall, warned the charges could mean the end of a 20-year research programme.…

The upward escalator that carries people from Highgate station ticket hall to street level is open once again. While repairs were carried out, passengers had been left to walk up at least 16 steps to exit the station since last October. Earlier this year, Liberal Democrat councillor Scott Emery said the delay in fixing the escalator had made it “almost impossible” for elderly people to get around. TfL was also criticised after pushing back an initial date for the escalator repair by several weeks last month. At the time, Cllr Emery said: “While any progress is welcome, the continued delays and…

Mill Brook Park resident Jay Hostan noted down when trains arrived at at Mill Hill East Station during peak hours on weekdays from Friday, May 9 to Monday, June 2. Having lived in the area for around four years, he said he sometimes waited up to 40 minutes for a tube to arrive and the service had started to “degrade”. “I wanted to trigger some change,” Jay said. “Whenever we need to go into the city, sometimes we have to wait there for 25 minutes, 30 minutes, sometimes 40 minutes, and if you have to do it twice a day then…

The historic building is daunting at first and easy to get lost in. While you can get awe-struck by speaking in the chamber once dominated by Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and plenty of other great Britons, the massive sense of responsibility is quickly sobering. It’s an enormous honour to represent what is unarguably the greatest place in Britain, from the thriving Bromley town centre to the peaceful Hayes and the unique village of Biggin Hill. While British politics continues to be tumultuous, I’ve put my head down and focused on representing our community to the best of my ability. Over…

Market House will now form a key part of the wider transformation of the town’s Market Square area, the authority has announced, with construction work set to begin in late summer. Harlow Council leader Councillor Dan Swords said: “We said we were going to buy Market House and now we have done it. “Without control over these buildings, it is impossible for the council to regenerate the area in the way residents deserve. “That’s why we’ve bought it, and we can now get on with the complete redevelopment of Market Square into a hub of leisure and hospitality.” The plans include refurbishing…

A 12-year-old boy has died after a flat was destroyed by a fire in Lewisham. The boy, named as Fabian Henry by his family, died in the fire in Lewisham Road just before midnight (July 8), reports Metro. The flames destroyed a two-floor flat and also damaged another, along with the outside of the building. A 54-year-old woman was treated on scene by London Ambulance Service for injuries not thought to be life-changing. Three further people left the building before the brigade arrived. LIVE updates as boy, 12, dies after fire rips through flats in Lewisham The cause of the…

Corbil Planning, on behalf of applicant Seetha Creations, has put forward proposals for a four-storey rear extension to the former Scottish Mutual House at 27-29 North Street. The extension would be made up of seven flats in total, consisting of two one-bed, four three-bed and one four-bed units. The former office building has already been converted into residential flats after a prior approval application was granted by Havering Council in 2021, with 20 homes now rented out by the applicant. READ MORE: Brentwood adult learning centre could be turned into offices A further five flats are set to be built in a…

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