- Amount UK households have available to save each year is set to fall
- Post Office warns UK is not saving enough and is in danger of returning to pre-recession spending habits
- Cebr forecasts the average amount available will fall from £3,780 to £3,630 in 2014 – this, once adjusted for inflation, is a similar level to that seen in the 1960s* (also seen in 2000 and 1987)
- Post Office, Enham Trust, Parish Council and Aster Communities unite in community spirit to open new garden on Saturday 24th May
- Guest of honour Rt Hon Sir George Young MP to perform opening ceremony
- Local residents invited to celebrate
Rt Hon Sir George Young MP officially opened a new community garden for the local residents of Enham Alamein on Saturday 24th May at 1pm. Residents
- Algarve supermarkets offer the cheapest prices for self-catering holidaymakers
- Shopping in mini-marts could cost up to 53 per cent extra
- Prices fall over 10 per cent in Greek Islands but rise over 20 per cent in Spanish resorts 28 per cent of families notch up self-catering bills of more than £100 but one-in-ten waste over £50 of food (www.postoffice.co.uk/selfcateringholidays201
- More than 1,000 Post Office branches now open on Sundays for customers’ convenience
- Over 2,000 modernised branches offer extra 60,000 opening hours a week
The Post Office, now independent of Royal Mail, welcomed Royal Mail’s announcement on Sunday services.
Mark Davies, director of communications at the Post Office, said: ‘The Post Office now has more than 1,000 Post Office bran
- Winners of Post Office Community Enterprise Grant launch IT project to tackle isolation
- Mayor, Councilors, Town Crier and local library unite in community spirit
- Local residents invited to join the ‘WithIT’ group for help using the latest tablet devices and getting online
Royal Wootton Bassett Post Office is to launch a new IT club for local residents. On Monday 7th April
- Winners of Post Office Community Enterprise Fund launch children’s homework club and IT facilities
- 48 children already registered to attend
- Mike Wood MP, local schools, Learn.org and subpostmaster unite in community spirit
Batley Post Office has launched a weekly homework club for local children who could benefit from additional support with their school work. On Sunday
- Only one-third of holidaymakers stick to their spending budget on overseas trips
- On a holiday spending budget of £552 the average overspend is £242
- But perceived value remains key to destination choice: Turkey and Spain score but France, Dubai and Italy get the thumbs down
Value for money may be the key factor in deciding on a destination for an overseas trip but
COMMUNITY BRANCH FUND
By applying to the fund, Subpostmasters will have the opportunity to make a case for funding to support the growth of their business and deliver benefits to customers to help the long-term sustainability of their branch. Every Community Branch will be able to apply to the Fund with investment being allocated on an individual basis
A focus for investment will be activity
The Post Office in partnership with Bank of Ireland UK, its financial services partner, has today announced its intention to widen distribution through the Legal & General Mortgage Club.
The launch through the Legal and General Mortgage Club will initially be through its appointed representatives, before rolling out to their Nouveau and directly authorised brokers.
Post Office wil
Details of a £20 million fund aimed at building the businesses of crucial Post Office services in villages and remote communities have been announced.
The new Community Branch Fund is being created to help secure the long term future of branches which have become the crucial "last shops" in their area, offering millions of people unrivalled and easy access to services such as mails and hi
1.63m tourists waste over £21 million a year buying currency at UK airports
Families changing money at the airport lose an average of almost £13 – enough to buy three round of drinks in the Algarve or a snack lunch in the Costa del Sol
Airports in the South West, Midlands and North of England offer the worst deals
Things are looking sunny for UK tourists planning summer holidays abro
- Prices fall up to 21 per cent in two-thirds of European resorts since last spring
- Paphos registers thee biggest fall but Bulgaria’s Sunny Beach is cheapest of 20 resorts surveyed – overtaking the Costas and the Algarve
- Marmaris moves into second spot – after a 31 per cent surge in sterling’s value
- Resort costs are over a third cheaper than 2009 in the Costas and the Algarve
