The Home Office has today confirmed the officer recruitment targets for every police force in England and Wales for the first year of the unprecedented drive to increase their ranks by 20,000 over the next three years.
The boss of a major banking group has succumbed to pressure from furious customers and MPs and agreed to reinstate cheque deposits at Post Offices and banking hubs.Lloyds Banking group, which also includes Halifax and the Bank of Scotland, previously stopped cheque deposits at Post Office branches a