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Cash-strapped customers can buy Christmas card stamps at reduced prices under new Royal Mail scheme
Cash-strapped customers can now buy their Christmas card stamps at reduced prices under a new scheme from the Royal Mail.
PUBLISHED: 01:14, 5 December 2012 | UPDATED: 13:51, 5 December 2012
Cash-strapped customers can now buy their Christmas card stamps at reduced prices under a new scheme from the Royal Mail.
The Christmas stamp scheme allows those in receipt of Pension Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefit or Unemployability Supplement to buy up to 36 first and second-class stamps at 2011 prices — 46p and 36p.
So, if you brought 36 first-class stamps with the scheme, you would make a saving of £5.04.
Helping hand: Leaflets have already been sent to every home in the UK explaining who is eligible, along with a voucher
However, you can receive the discount over only one transaction. The scheme runs until December 24.
Families face choice between food and heating, warn charities
By Gabriella Jozwiak, Thursday 06 December 2012
Families on benefits could be forced to choose between paying for food and heating, as a result of measures announced in the autumn statement, children’s charities have warned.
Children and young people’s organisations warned that families would be hit by the real-terms cuts to working-age benefits and tax credits.
Jobseeker’s Allowance, income support and child tax credit are among the working-age benefits that will increase by just one per cent over the next three years, equating to a real-terms cut, given that inflation is currently running at more than two per cent.
The Children’s Society suggested the one per cent cap would mean an unemployed, lone parent with one child and no other income will only receive about £4 more each month after housing costs in 2015.
Norwich community centre needs urgent help!
Proposed Norwich community centre faces February auction – if campaigners fail to meet council’s cash demand
Friends of the Silver Rooms committee members, from left, Ian Gibson, chairman; Julie Brociek-Coulton, secretary; and Ann Turner, discuss plans for the Silver Rooms as they start fundraising to buy the building. Picture: Denise Bradley
Richard Wheeler Thursday, December 6, 2012
12:56 PM
Campaigners are urging people to dig deep to stop council bosses from selling an in-demand Norwich community centre at auction.
The Friends of the Silver Rooms have until December 20 to put down a deposit of approximately £2,600 to secure the Silver Road building, and January 4 to pay the first instalment of around £26,000.
A community centre is proposed for the former day centre, with scores of groups expressing their interest in hosting events and clubs for people of all ages.
But if the Friends fail to secure a deal, which will cost £80,000 over three years, then Norfolk County Council will put the Silver Rooms up for sale at auction in February.
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