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    Royal Mail has urged customers to stop putting empty Walkers crips packets in the post without envelopes, venturing into a row between the snack giant and protesters. Environmental campaigners have told people to send bags back to the PepsiCo brand as a form of protest because they aren't yet recyclable. Customers have been told to flood Walkers social media with pictures of us popping them in the post, along with the hashtag #PacketinWalkers. Royal Mail is legally required to deliver the bags to Walkers' freepost address, but it says packets that aren't in envelopes are causing delays. The packets cannot go through machines and must be sorted by hand. Some 310,500 people have backed a petition calling on Walkers to improve on its 2025 target to create new recycl...

    We joined Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, as she chatted with royal restorationists preparing her wedding dress for an exhibition. Later the camera peered over the shoulder of Prince Harry exchanging raffish small talk with students from the Caribbean who’d spent time behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace (they had, he jested, enjoyed a longer stay at the palace than he ever had). The promised archive material, meanwhile, took us back to the Queen’s early years on the throne when she was a shy young woman sprung before her time into one of the highest profile jobs in the world. She looked pale and serious launching Royal Yacht Britannia in 1954 though clips of Prince Philip and of a young Prince Charles and Princess Anne on board the vessel confirmed this was fam...

    Jeremy Corbyn has told Theresa May he will back a Brexit deal she brings back from Europe as long as it means Britain staying in a customs union, protecting jobs, workers rights and standards for the environment. The Labour leader’s pledge appears to hold out a lifeline to a prime minister who finds herself at the mercy of Tory Brexiteers who have vowed to torpedo her proposals. But it also represents an adjustment in Labour’s Brexit rhetoric, coming after a week in which shadow cabinet minister Sir Keir Starmer indicated his party was likely to vote down any deal Ms May secured. Mr Corbyn also used his conference speech to try and draw a line under the antisemitism row dogging his party, telling the Jewish community we are your ally and committing a Labour governm...

    Two ambulances have been damaged by bricks thrown from a Birmingham overpass in a dangerous and idiotic attack. Authorities are appealing for information about the incident which took place on Borchfield Road, at the junction of Aston Lane, between 2.30pm and 3pm on Tuesday. Nathan Hudson, emergency services operations delivery director for West Midlands Ambulance Service, said: It is hard to put into words how angry and disappointing these incidents are. Throwing a brick at any vehicle is dangerous and idiotic, but when it is an ambulance responding to an emergency, it beggars belief. The first ambulance suffered a cracked windshield while racing to help a patient with breathing difficulties, forcing it to stop and causing a delay to paramedics delivering help. A...

    Luisa Cieslak said the dog began attacking her pet poodle Cha Cha after it entered through the open back door of her house in Wood Green, north London on 15 September. As the 61-year-old tried to protect her pet the creature turned on her, sinking its teeth into her hands and leaving deep wounds. Cha Cha died from her injuries. Ms Cieslak, who suffers with angina, ileostomy and diabetes, told The Sun that it was the most terrifying moment of my life. She added: I thought the dog was going to kill me. After suffering cuts and ligament damage to her hands, Ms Cieslak said she didn't believe they would ever be the same again. She added that her 98-year-old mother was hospitalised with shock, while her daughter Belinda who was also present at the time of the attack ...

    A pensioner has been found alive and well in a care home five days after a fire tore through the rest of the building. The 74-year-old man was sitting in his apartment in the Washington DC complex and is expected to survive. He was found by a team assessing the damage to the four-storey retirement block, which had been home to more than 100 elderly people. Mayor Muriel Bowser said: The resident was found by crews hired by the building owners to evaluate the safety of the structure. It appears that, based on the report that I got from the building workers, that he was sitting in his apartment. One rescuer said: And he wanted to walk out, but we put him in a chair. For someone who has been in that situation for as long as he has, he seemed in incredibly good shape....

    Labour is likely to vote down any withdrawal agreement Theresa May reaches with the EU, even if the alternative she presents is crashing out without a deal, the party’s Brexit spokesman has said. Keir Starmer predicted the deal the prime minister was likely to secure in the coming weeks would fail Labour’s six tests, so the party was preparing to reject it in parliament. In a speech to Labour’s conference in Liverpool on Tuesday, Starmer will formalise the party’s resolve to try to scupper any agreement that amounts to a blind Brexit. He will say: If Theresa May brings back a deal that fails our tests and that looks increasingly likely Labour will vote against it. No ifs, no buts. On Today, Starmer rejected May’s argument that the alternative to the deal she hoped ...

    Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to the Chichester Festival Theatre in Chichester Queen Elizabeth II was spotted feeding a horse last weekend while on her way to a hunting trip with her friends. Her Majesty stopped her Range Rover to feed a chestnut horse with a handful of treats. Kat Clementine, a journalist for Express, said that this is the Queen’s last week in Balmoral since her summer vacation is coming to an end. During her recent sighting, the Queen was photographed in her grey anorak, a silk headscarf, and a pair of sunglasses. She also inspected her horses on the way back from having lunch at Glen Cova with the Royal Shooting Party. On her way to the hunting trip in the grounds of Balmoral, the monarch was seen giving her chauffeur a day off. She was th...