Elderly residents without post for four weeks

A Kent retirement community has expressed anger after not receiving any letters for four weeks.

Although a "sporadic" service has recently resumed, residents of the 31 almshouses at Huggens College in Northfleet went without post since the middle of November.

Reverend Pam Davies said the lack of postal deliveries and urgency from Royal Mail prompted her to write to local MP, Lauren Sullivan.

Royal Mail said while the festive period was its "busiest time of the year with volumes more than doubling, the vast majority of mail is being delivered on time".