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# Friday, 14 September 2007
The Norwegian postal service takes the delivery of ballot papers very seriously. So seriously in fact that when a ballot paper was sent to the wrong town, they pulled out all the stops to try and get it to its destination before the polls closed. This included taking the unusual steps of flying it 220 miles to Oslo and then another 185 miles to Foerde, before sending it on a chartered helicopter for the remaining 35 miles to its destination of Stryn. The complete bill was 15,000 kroner.

posted on Friday, 14 September 2007 11:23:59 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Trackback
# Thursday, 13 September 2007
The Communication Workers Union has said they will announce further strikes after they failed to reach an agreement with Royal Mail after five days of talks. Whilst they have made some progress it was not enough to avert the treat of further action. If the strikes go ahead they would take place before the end of September.

posted on Thursday, 13 September 2007 11:55:56 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Trackback
# Wednesday, 12 September 2007
Postal workers in Stoke-on-Trent have returned to work after staging an unofficial strike after twelve of their colleagues were suspended. The strike has caused disruptions in the Stoke-on-Trent area and mail may be delayed for the next few days.

posted on Wednesday, 12 September 2007 18:44:41 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Trackback
# Monday, 10 September 2007
Talks between the Communication Workers Union and Royal Mail to try and resolve the pay dispute responsible for the recent strikes concluded on Sunday 9th of September. As yet no agreement has been reached. The Union has informed Royal Mail that they will extend the period of calm and are prepared to enter into further talks. There is currently no threat of further industrial action.

posted on Monday, 10 September 2007 17:39:52 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Trackback
# Sunday, 09 September 2007

blogoftheweek This weeks travel blog of the week is Rambling Traveler, I've been visiting this blog quite regularly and have finally got around to giving it the worthy mention it deserves. Stacy the blogs author, has a lovely bogging style featuring the various places she has visited and always with such stunning pictures.

The article I enjoyed the most was God's Child Project, the article explains how Stacy and 5 friends joined a task group to help and learn about the poor in Guatemala. The goal of the organisation is to help families out of poverty by helping the children to stay in school instead of them working to help support their families. They use incentives such as school supplies, food, medical care etc. 

posted on Sunday, 09 September 2007 23:20:05 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Trackback
# Friday, 07 September 2007
George Best Belfast City Airport has announced plans to extend its runway. The plans would allow Ryanair to fly to more European destinations from the airport. Ryanair hopes to offer flights to three European destinations as well as four daily flights to Stansted airport in London. On the subject of Stansted airport you might want to read this article by Ubertramp who has a few things to say about the airports location.

posted on Friday, 07 September 2007 12:28:15 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Trackback
# Thursday, 06 September 2007
The first Eurostar train to use the new St Pancras terminal has broken the Paris to London record after a trip of two hours, three minutes and 39 seconds. The train travels at around 192mph. The quicker time should help to drive up passenger number and allow Eurostar to compete with budget airlines.

posted on Thursday, 06 September 2007 15:55:33 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Trackback
# Wednesday, 05 September 2007
Nepal’s state run airline has an interesting approach to fixing problems. Faced with a technical problem with one of its two Boeing 757 aircraft they decided to sacrifice two goats to help solve the problem. Personally I feel better if they had called an engineer, but what do I know? The goat sacrifice did appear to work and the problem with the plane has been resolved.

posted on Wednesday, 05 September 2007 18:00:21 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Trackback