Post Office cash machines crisis: Mail bosses are to scrap a THIRD of its 2,000 ATMs in new blow to elderly and vulnerable Post Office will invest £16million to equip 1,400 machines with latest technology Customers still be able to withdraw cash over the counter at 11,500 post offices But many Britons do not know … Read more
Falklands flagship HMS Hermes reaches her final destination – a breakers’ yard where she will be turned into scrap metal Veteran aircraft carrier HMS Hermes has made her final voyage to the scrapheap She was the flagship of the British fleet during the Falklands war in 1982 Hermes carried up to 21 Harrier jets, five Sea … Read more
Cruise ships from Britain and the United States are being scrapped at a Turkish dock after the multi-billion pound industry was smashed by the coronavirus crisis. The coronavirus cruise liner graveyard at the port in Aliaga, a town 30 miles north of Izmir on Turkey’s west coast, bustled with work again on Friday as scrapyard workers … Read more
Leading state and private schools including Eton launch joint fight to scrap ‘unfair and unreliable’ GCSE exams More than 20 top education names have joined together to write an open letter They claim the system ‘leaves in its wake a trail of stress and unfairness’ Former education secretary who introduced GCSEs in 1988, Lord Baker, … Read more
She had been planning an extravagant party in a plush Essex mansion to ring in her 34th year, But thanks to the updated coronavirus restrictions limiting gatherings to up to six people, Lauren Goodger has been forced to cancel her big birthday plans. Taking to Instagram on Thursday, the former TOWIE star, 33, told how … Read more
Rio Tinto is no stranger to ethical problems. It currently is involved in tussles from the Gobi desert in Mongolia to Guinea in Africa, where it has been embroiled in bribery allegations. Given this torrid recent history one might have expected chairman Simon Thompson to have taken the protests from big Australian and UK investor … Read more
The Square Mile is preparing to scrap statues and other landmarks with historic links to slavery and racism, following the Black Lives Matter movement. City of London Corporation bosses, who run the area home to some of the world’s biggest banks, has now launched a three-month consultation that could see the sculptures felled for good. … Read more
To say the HMS Hermes had a difficult start to life would be understating the fact – construction on the aircraft carrier, initially dubbed HMS Elephant, began in 1944 during World War Two, but conflict ended before she had been completed. Her hull then sat in the dockyard in Barrow-in-Furness until 1953, when it was … Read more
The British Army’s entire force of hundreds of tanks and armoured vehicles could be scrapped under sweeping modernisation plans. The UK’s Challenger II main battle tanks and Warrior infantry fighting vehicles are said to be at risk because of swingeing budget cuts expected to follow the coronvirus crisis. The cost of upgrading the heavy armour … Read more
Military chiefs draw up plans to scrap ALL Britain’s tanks in bid to modernise armed forces amid budget cuts Ministers considering ditching the 227 Challenger 2 tanks and Warrior vehicles Officials are thought to be keen to switch from heavy armour to other assets It comes as the forces are anticipating budget cuts to due … Read more