From today, Royal Mail is increasing the cost of 1st class stamps from 70 to 76p and 2nd class from 61p to 65p despite delays of up to five days.

A factory worker stockpiled weapons and supplies including 14 exploding Kinder Eggs at his home to prepare for an apocalypse, a court heard (pictured, Daniel Magee).

Postal workers are being advised to call in sick rather than risk catching the coronavirus. The Communications Workers Union is warning it could halt deliveries within three weeks as they deliver 'junk'.

Postman and father-of one Ethan Gordon, from Boston, Lincolnshire, took to Facebook to outline the instructions to customers 'for their safety and all posties alike' amid the coronavirus crisis.

The National Biosample Centre, in Milton Keynes, has been set aside and repurposed to be able to cope with testing on a mass scale. But it has endured a faltering start.

A Royal Mail postman wiped his nose with his hand and then repeatedly touched a property's entrance, with the same hand. People on social media have called for him to be fired.

The eldest of this year's 188 recipients is Thomas Brock, from Sunbury-on-Thames, who holds the title of oldest active bellringer in the world aged 101 (pictured).

Princess Eugenie, 29, has taken to Instagram to thank every postman and woman for working so hard during the coronavirus pandemic.

Letter deliveries are 'temporarily' on hold but 'most parcels' will be delivered.

The company will 'temporarily' cut back its services from this weekend as Britain continues to grapple the deadly bug.

Seventy-five years ago, a sea of people gathered in Trafalgar Square under a banner on Nelson's Column which declared 'Victory Over Germany 1945'.

BLACK DOG: 'Thank God for those cigar fumes,' said a relieved Rory-ite. 'The old boy doesn't carry a mobile phone so Ken's little vice was the only way we found him.'

Boris Johnson's campaign team warned that the second half of his leadership campaign should be as disciplined as the first... hours before the bust up with Carrie Symonds emerged.

BLACK DOG: What little love there is left between Theresa May and Boris Johnson will surely evaporate when she learns why Tories were deserting her at Prime Minister's Questions.

BLACK DOG: Theresa May dodged the question - as usual - when she was asked last week if the turmoil inside No 10 had driven her to use the F-word.

Nervous Boris Johnson acolytes pray the odds-on leadership favourite won't ape Theresa May if he gets to choose a Cabinet, writes BLACK DOG.

BLACK DOG: A political love spurned lay behind Boris Johnson's brutal dismissal of Forces darling Penny Mordaunt, whisper Tory insiders.

BLACK DOG: Relations between 10 and 11 Downing Street plummeted last week after Sajid Javid's dog Bailey tried to take a chunk out of the PM's Chief Mouser Larry the Cat.

BLACK DOG: Those at No 10 are worried Northern, working-class Leavers backing Boris won't vote as they'll be in the pub on Friday nights spending their well-earned wages.

BLACK DOG: As he prepares to emerge from his shepherd's hut and break his silence on Brexit with the publication of his delayed memoirs, David Cameron can expect some flak.

The litigants in a recent Supreme Court case suggested using the American Community Survey, an annual sample of 2.5% of U.S. households that asks about citizenship, to estimate the citizen voter-age population.

A number of government surveys are conducted in face-to-face interviews for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, physical material must be collected or the survey is too long and complex to conduct by telephone or mailed questionnaire. The results are some of the richest and most complete survey data available.

​Periodical cicadas live underground for 13 or 17 years before emerging to mate, lay eggs and die off, and today, there are 15 known broods in the U.S. There used to be 16 and the current number may dwindle if the teetering Brood VII goes extinct.

MLB.com really wants to give away $5.6 million. But there’s a catch: To claim the prize, one needs to participate in Major League Baseball’s Beat the Streak contest and assemble a batting streak that surpasses Joe DiMaggio’s run of 56 consecutive games in 1941. This isn't easy.

Jackie Bradley Jr.'s bid to supplant Joe DiMaggio atop the Major League Baseball hit-streak list ended at 29 games. That's not surprising as many observers consider Joltin' Joe's streak the most difficult record to break in sports.

When an epidemic such as Zika threatens to sweep across the country, public-health workers and policy makers need some basic information in order to plan a strategic response to make the best use of limited resources to protect the public from the spread of the disease. Enter the mathematicians and statisticians.

When seasonally adjusted numbers continue to exhibit the influences of seasonal effects, much as first-quarter readings on gross domestic product have regularly been doing, statisticians refer to it as residual seasonality. And that effect hampers seasoned economists from making clear-eyed judgments on the strength of the economy.

Generational groupings are attractive to academics who want to measure social and cultural change. They’re coveted by marketers looking to capitalize on evolving consumer tastes. And they appeal to others seeking to exploit the perceived psyche of the different groups.

Retirement calculators employ different assumptions to help users predict whether their rate of savings will support their current lifestyle after they quit work.

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Lewis Hamilton won the French Grand Prix to claim his sixth win of the season and extend Mercedes' unbeaten run to 10 races.

Mercedes hold a commanding lead over Ferrari in both the constructors' and drivers' championships after winning a record eight straight races this season.

Austrian GP: Lewis Hamilton set a best lap time in one minute and 4.838 seconds on soft tyres in the first practice.

Austrian Grand Prix: Ferrari's Charles Leclerc topped in the second practice after Lewis Hamilton had won the first.

Austrian Grand Prix: Charles Leclerc of Ferrari outpaced Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton to claim the pole position.

Austrian GP: Lewis Hamilton was sanctioned for impeding Kimi Raikkonen during qualifying.

Lewis Hamilton qualified second but was demoted to start from fourth for impeding, as Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen will start from one-two.

Austrian Grand Prix: Red Bulls' Max Verstappen overtook Ferrari's Charles Leclerc with three laps remaining to win his second consecutive race at the Spielberg circuit.

Max Verstappen of Red Bull broke Mercedes' ten-win streak this year with a close win over Charles Leclerc to seal the deal at the Austrian Grand Prix.

Max Verstappen registered a dramatic Austrian GP win over Charles Leclerc by overtaking the Ferrari driver just three laps before the finish.

Formula One signed a contract to keep the British Grand Prix at Silverstone till the 2024 season.

Pierre Gasly posted the fastest time in the first session of practice at British Grand Prix, as Romain Grosjean of Haas, Albon and Williams' British rookie George Russell had spins and off-track excursions on the newly-resurfaced circuit.

Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel posted two fastest times in the third and final free practice session of British GP at Silverstone.

Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes secured pole at British Grand Prix, as he pipped teammate Lewis Hamilton by 0.006 seconds in qualifying at Silverstone.

Lewis Hamilton will start from second after his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas pipped him to the pole at British Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton piped Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas to win the British Grand Prix as Ferrari's Charles Leclerc finished in third.

Sebastian Vettel finished a distant 16th in British Grand Prix and is now 100 points adrift of Lewis Hamilton on Drivers Championship board.

Sebastian Vettel is apprehensive abut his return to Hockenheim, where his Formula One campaign came undone last year.

Charles Leclerc topped in the second practice while Sebastian Vettel was victorious in the first practice as Ferrari started the German Grand Prix well.

Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc shone in the scorching sun in the first two practices of German Grand Prix.