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Truckers bring smiles to disadvantaged children

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For 25 years since 1986, many truckers around Norwich have participated in the annual trucking convoy to bring smiles to the faces of disadvantaged children.

The 25th East Coast Truckers children charity convoy saw 101 lorries set out from County Hall, Norwich to Great Yarmouth seafront. In each lorry cab was a disadvantaged child enjoying the journey of their lives. 

East Coat Truckers have been bringing smiles to disadvantaged children for 25 years

Leading the convoy in truck number one was Glenn Johnson, who came up with the idea of the charity ride 25 years ago and has led every convoy since.

Mr. Johnson, from Fressingfield, said: “The last 25 years have been a real pleasure and a great testimony to everyone that has taken part.”

The East Coast Truckers became a charity in 2000 and has raised £350,000 for good causes over the last decade as well as the charity children’s convoy.

How to drift like a Japanese trucker

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If you ever watched “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift”, you know how good the Japanese are at drifting.

This time, they show us how to drift like a Japanese trucker.

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

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53 years for a postcard to be delivered

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A postcard sent from Durban, South Africa in 1957 has finally reached its destination in Dorset after 53 years.

Staff at Monkton Wyld Court education centre, near Bridport, are trying to find out the postcard intended recipient, “J.C. Belsey”.

Since 53 years have past, the addressee may have been a student, teacher or staff member of the then mixed boarding school housing 36 students.

 
The postcard which took 53 years to be delivered

The postcard, which appears to be sent from Belsey’s grandparents, refers to a trip to Durban, saying: “It has rained a bit today but is staying hot even so.”

A Royal Mail spokesperson said: “It is extremely unlikely that this item of mail was in our system at this time. It is difficult to speculate what may have happened, but almost certainly it was put back in a post box very recently, as we regularly check all our sorting offices and machines are cleared.”

It is hoped that some former pupils will be able to shed light on the postcard’s recipient at the boarding school reunion in May 2011.

Tea delivery man saves pensioner’s life with marshmallows

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Lee Craggs, 24, a delivery man working for Ringtons Tea of Sunderland, saved the life of a pensioner who collapsed in her house in Gateshead.

Mr. Craggs, a trained first aider, found Rosemary Falloon, 84, who has diabetes, on the floor of her home and called an ambulance.

He also fed her chocolate covered marshmallows from his basket which helped bring her sugar levels back to normal.

Chocolate covered marshmallows helped save Mrs Fallon

He said: “The paramedics were looking for some biscuits. We couldn’t see where she kept them so I went to the van and got a box of marshmallows, something sweet, thankfully, that brought her round.”

Mrs Fallon said his quick action saved her life: “I can’t thank Lee enough for what he did for me. I might not have been here today if it hadn’t been for him. He had the sense to the phone straight away, he had the sense to switch the iron off which was still hot and he had the sense to put me in the recovery position.”

Waitrose’s home delivery service trials eco-friendly vehicles

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After a six month successful trial, five of Waitrose’s home delivery vans – Mercedes Sprinters will be powered with liquid biomethane (LBM), a methane-based renewable fuel produced from landfill gas. It is created by extracting naturally occurring methane from organic waste in landfill sites and converting it to a high quality, clean fuel.

Waitrose’s eco-friendly delivery vans run on renewable fuel

These eco-friendly transport vans, which run at a 62 per cent lower CO2 emissions compared with diesel, will deliver food to homes in Central London.

Ray Collington, Fleet Engineer at Waitrose, said: “The John Lewis Partnership is committed to reducing its carbon footprint and to using, where possible, locally sourced materials. Gasrec’s Liquid Biomethane gives us a high-performance vehicle, using local sustainable fuel that will reduce our CO² emissions. It is a real viable alternative to diesel for us.”

Argos trials 90-minute delivery service for customers

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Argos are starting a trial with Shutl, a promising start up business which will allow the retail giant’s customers to have products delivered to their doors in as little as 90 minutes.
The six month trial will be based in London and available for Argos customers using its “Check & Reserve” service.

Shutl’s solution helps by connecting Argos with same day local couriers who can deliver the retailer’s products to its customers in a much shorter time than before. The service starts at £4.95, which is £1 cheaper than Argos’s current two to three day delivery service!

 

 

Tom Allason, Shutl’s founder (and former owner of eCourier) said the majority of the £4.95 will go the courier companies. “We’re a high volume, low margin business. We have no moving parts. It’s in our interests to get the costs as low as possible because the consumer is more likely to convert.”

The company is hoping to expand the trial nationwide if the London trial proves successful.

We think this is another example of making good use of vehicles capacities and empowering independent courier companies to get involved in large-scale supply chain contracts which frankly they would not otherwise get a sniff of.