6 h. ago ITV awarded top Bafta honour for ‘changing hearts and minds’ with Mr Bates vs the Post Office

The public impact of the real-life drama will be rewarded at the Bafta TV Awards

Events

7 h. ago Post Office confirms delay to opening of replacement branch in Motherwell

Early in the New Year, the Post Office set out that it had appointed an operator to run a new service in Motherwell and with the intention of the branch opening in spring.

Politics

14 h. ago Vatican issues 'sede vacante' postage stamps valid until a new pope is elected

Vatican post offices and selected collectors’ shops started selling this week special stamps marking the period between Pope Francis' death and the election of his successor

Politics

43 h. ago Selling the Royal Mail to a shadowy foreign billionaire is an act of economic vandalism that savages our nation's heritage and breaches the public interest, says ALEX BRUMMER

It would take a real Scrooge of a post office boss not to rejoice at Christmas, a time of year when mail delivery services across Europe typically enjoy bumper revenues.

Economics

57 h. ago James Arthur says Liam Payne reached out to him after he ‘publicly struggled’

The Impossible singer said Payne requested to have a one-to-one chat with him.

Politics

3 d. ago Trump’s apparent change of heart on Russia ‘welcome’, says senior minister

The US president turned his criticism towards Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Saturday after meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.

Politics

3 d. ago Golden Goal: Paul Gascoigne for Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal (1991)

Gazza painted his artistry all over the 1991 FA Cup and his stupendous free-kick influenced the game for yearsFootball is an unstoppable continuum, a whirling dervish of love and hate, life and death, frequent tedium and the greatest excitement known to humanity. Because we care so much for it it feels like it cares for us back, but the painful truth is this is our imagination and self-respect saving us from acknowledging that actually, football was there before us, it’ll be there after us, and while we’re there it exists as though we don’t.Occasionally, though, we have bestowed upon us an event that grabs us by the lapels and shrieks indelibly into our souls, the entirety of the cosmos consumed by the wonder of the game. “It tells us something we’ll always remember,” wrote director-screenwriter Randall Wallace when considering what makes something epic. “It makes us walk out of a theatre and whisper into our own hearts, ‘I’m changed.’” Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago 'I agreed to help out at the local Post Office in my retirement and it ruined my life'

Alun Lloyd Jones decided it was his duty to help keep the Post Office going. It was a decision which would go on to ruin his retirement.

Politics

4 d. ago Mr Bates vs the Post Office writer 'apologising' over TV series and 'monster' scene

Gwyneth Hughes, who penned Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, has been "apologising ever since" to all the people she was unable to include in the show but admitted they "still felt represented"

Culture

4 d. ago Post Office chiefs to fork out thousands in extra compo to postmasters over personal data leak

Lawyers confirmed they had won settlements for around eight Scottish postmasters and many more across the UK who were affected by a major data breach amid the Horizon scandal.

Politics

5 d. ago Unite 'poised to retreat' over Birmingham bin strike despite no new pay offer on the table...so what's REALLY behind the union's change of heart?

Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite, declared this week that a deal with the city council 'could be in touching distance', in a marked change of tone after seven weeks of strikes.

Events

6 d. ago Irish postal service offers to send cards to the Vatican for free

Post offices in Ireland had received queries from the public on what was the correct address and stamp to use.

Politics

6 d. ago Trump envoy says there were positive talks in London with Ukraine official

Trump envoy says there were positive talks in London with Ukraine official  The Jerusalem Post

Politics

8 d. ago The Last of Us star's heartbreak as they filmed pivotal scene after huge personal loss

The stars of The Last of Us have opened up about the heartbreaking moment that changed everything in the HBO and Sky drama

Culture

1 week ago 'I tried the kebab served at a Manchester Post Office and discovered something quite special'

It wasn't my first choice for lunch - until now

Politics

1 week ago Wife of Kilmar Ábrego García speaks as White House defiant over US return

Jennifer Vasquez Sura relieved husband is alive but Trump officials say in mocking X post he is ‘never coming back’US politics live – latest updatesJennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the man the Trump administration has admitted it mistakenly deported, expressed relief to learn he is alive after a Democratic US senator managed to meet with him in El Salvador – as the White House posted on social media that he is “never coming back” to the US.“It was very overwhelming – the most important thing for me, my children, his mom, brothers was to see him alive, and we saw him alive,” Vasquez Sura told ABC in an interview. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Buffy and Gossip Girl star Michelle Trachtenberg's cause of death revealed

The US star’s family objected to a post-mortem examination but the medical examiner's office has released a statement following new laboratory test results

Events

1 week ago Liam Payne’s sister says she feels ‘plunged underwater’ without her brother

The singer died in October last year after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina.

Politics

2 w. ago Post Office scandal victim forced to give birth wearing tag after being wrongly convicted — now she has OBE

Former sub-postmistress Seema Misra was among campaigners recognised at an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on Wednesday and was presented with a gong by Princess Anne

Events

2 w. ago Subpostmasters say their fight is still on as they are made OBEs

Seema Misra was eight weeks pregnant with her second child when she was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment in 2010.

Politics