
Chelmsford residents fail to receive mail for three weeks - BBC News
Royal Mail apologises to customers and says "resourcing issues" and Covid are to blame.

FTSE 100 Live: London’s blue chip index ends day lower, inflation hits 4.2%, Amazon bans Visa cards - Evening Standard
Inflation today hit its highest level in nearly a decade as rising energy bills sent the UK's consumer prices index to a higher-than-expected 4.2% for October.

Amazon informs users it will stop accepting UK Visa credit cards via weird empty email - The Register
How will you be able to buy things you can't afford now?

M&S service lets shoppers have £299 outfits without buying them - Manchester Evening News
Marks & Spencer has shared a £13 loophole for people who want to wear the same outfits as Holly Willoughby on This Morning without paying full price

Famous Tynemouth hotel to get chippy and ice cream parlour in multimillion-pound makeover - ChronicleLive
The Park Hotel is being refurbished by new owners The Inn Collection Group and will aim to attract guests all year round

Suffolk railway bridge is most bashed in Britain - BBC News
Strikes at the Needham Market bridge cost £41,331 in delays and cancellations, Network Rail says.

Flybe returns 20 months after airline collapse – but no routes announced - The Independent
‘All the profitable routes have been taken,’ says Sean Moulton, airline schedule analyst

Outlaw Aurelia 'CSL' gets Busso V6 - Pistonheads.com
Six of Thornley Kelham's Aurelia restomod builds are spoken for - the final three promise to be extra special

Woman slaps shopper in the face with a pizza after he put chicken on her head - Manchester Evening News
Bargain hunters are shown pushing and shoving each other at the discount fridge

Britain's cost of living crisis: Average family will be £1,000-a-year worse off due to inflation - Daily Mail
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rose sharply from 3.1 per cent in September to 4.2 per cent last month, the highest level since 2011.

Sainsbury's and Waitrose issue major shopping bag announcement - Cambridgeshire Live
The retailers hope the move will make them more environmentally friendly

Greggs warns vegan sausage rolls are off the menu or in short supply across the UK - Daily Mail
The bakery chain said there were 'temporary interruptions' to supplies of products, including its light puff pastry with a seasoned Quorn filling, across the UK.