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Royal Mail has kept on 10,000 festive workers to clear a huge backlog of deliveries after it was plunged into chaos because of staff absences from Covid-19. “We recognise that at times our service during the period was not always as we would have wished,” admitted chairman Keith Williams.
Royal Mail delivered a record 496 million parcels over the last three months of 2020. It now expects profit to be
“well in excess” of £500million for the year to March as parcel traffic between April and December rose by 37%. However, the number of letters sent slumped by
23%.
BBC1, 9pm
The jolly Caribbean music kicks in and we’re transported to the sandy beaches and glorious sunshine of Saint Marie.
Of course someone is going to croak it within a few minutes, it’s just a question of who and how.
This time a rowdy stag do aboard The Midnight Rambler ends in tragedy for the boat’s owner and grizzled fisherman, Skip Marsden, played by Sean Gilder. When he is found the next morning lying on the sand at Benoit Bay with a harpoon through his chest, suspicion falls upon four friends, but as their boat never moved all night, how could any of them have done it?
Members of the stag party are very tense and prove to be difficult and utterly unhelpful as witnesses.
With the clock ticking before the four are allowed to leave the island, will DI Neville Parker (Ralf Little) crack the case?
Is the Caribbean sky blue? Of course he will.
Dear Coleen
I’m a girl in my second year at university and I’ve been best friends with another girl and a guy since we started our courses in September 2019. We’ve always been inseparable and do everything together.
However, my female friend called me a week ago to admit that she and our male friend had fancied each other for a long time and are now in a relationship.
I’m so upset about it because I had no idea, and I don’t know where that leaves me in terms of our friendship.
Am I overreacting?
Coleen says
Maybe a bit. I don’t see any reason why you can’t all still be mates. I think they might need to worry more because if things don’t work out between them romantically, they might not be able to remain friends.
Friendships do change when people pair up – you might not see as much of them, for example – but it doesn’t mean you can’t still be great mates.
Also, I wouldn’t be offended that they didn’t tell you straightaway, they were probably thinking of your feelings and trying to decide how to tell you.
Also, why not look at this as an opportunity to widen your circle of friends and get to know other people better?
Joyride With Jools Holland and Jim Moir
Take an imaginary trip with Jools Holland, Jim Moir and their celeb pals as they discuss transport and travel. In the first episode, the pair chat with Jim’s comedy partner Bob Mortimer.
Hear how Jim, aka Vic Reeves, bought a boat with visions of sailing the seas, only for friends to treat it like a floating pub, while Bob reveals he had a gun pointed at him in LA and describes a run-in with Michael Jackson’s entourage. Episodes available every Wednesday and guests include Ab Fab star Jane Horrocks and singer Jessie Ware.
Made Of Stronger Stuff
You might remember Kimberley Wilson for her show-stopping cakes on The Great British Bake Off. But when she isn’t whipping up a batch of her famous peace breads, she’s a chartered psychologist. In this new BBC podcast, Kimberley joins Dr Xand van Tulleken, of How to Lose Weight Well, to explore how our bodies influence our experience of the world.
In the first episode, the pair explore the surprising gap between what our eyes see, and what we perceive. They interview Jason Esterhuizen who was blinded in a car crash but a brain implant has helped restore his sight.
Ian Wright’s Everyday People
The footballer is known for his cheeky sense of humour as a pundit but in this podcast he shows his more sincere side.
He credits his school teacher Mr Pigden as the first person to give him a chance in life, helping him become the man he is today. So, in this new series which launches later this month, Ian sets out to find ordinary people doing incredible things.
He interviews Munira Mahmud, a survivor of Grenfell Tower, who’s cooking meals for struggling families during the pandemic. He also talks to Andy Hider, a mum of three from Bristol who’s fostered more than 150 children.