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Manchester police appeal for help to find ‘high-risk’ missing man from Wythenshawe

GMP launched an appeal for info on Sunday evening - with the missing 27-year-old described as having "severe" mental health issues.

The Manc The Manc - 29th June 2020
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Greater Manchester Police are asking the public for information on the whereabouts of a missing man from Wythenshawe with “severe mental health issues”.

The last confirmed sighting of Jonathan Windsor was on Friday (26 June) afternoon at North Manchester General Hospital in Crumpsall.

GMP took to social media on Sunday evening to launch an appeal for help – with the 27-year-old being described as “high risk”.

The public are being told to ring 999 if they see Jonathan and not to approach him.

A police statement reads: “Jonathan has severe mental health issues and officers are urging people not to approach him if they see him but to immediately call 999.

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“Officers are becoming increasingly concerned for his welfare and the risk he could pose to the public if approached.

“He was last seen at around 4.30pm on Friday 26 June 2020 leaving Park House, North Manchester General Hospital.

“Anyone who sees Jonathan should not approach him but call 999 and quote incident number 2352 of 26/06/2020.”

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Royal Mail fined £21m by Ofcom failing to meet its delivery targets

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant

Ofcom has fined Royal Mail a whopping £21 million for failing to meet its delivery targets in the last financial year.

Each year, it’s the watchdog’s job to look at and measure Royal Mail’s delivery performance against nationwide annual delivery targets, and for the 2024/25 season, the company was required to deliver 93% of First Class mail within one working day of collection, and 98.5% of Second Class mail within three working days.

If Royal Mail misses its annual targets, Ofcom will first consider evidence of any ‘exceptional circumstances’ beyond the company’s control, and whether it would have achieved its targets had those events not occurred. 

However, even after accounting for extreme weather events, Royal Mail was still found to have fallen short of its targets… and this time, they’ve been fined their highest sum so far.

This is the third time in a row that Ofcom has found the company to be in breach of its regulatory obligations, after it was first fined a substantial £5.6m in November 2023, and then a further £10.5m in December 2024.

Royal Mail only delivered 77% of First Class mail and 92.5% of Second Class mail on time between April 2024 and March 2025.

Ofcom says it has therefore decided that the company breached its obligations by failing to provide ‘an acceptable level of service’ without justification, and took ‘insufficient and ineffective’ steps to try and prevent this failure.

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“Hiding behind the pandemic as a driving factor in failures at Royal Mail does not cut it.”

Royal Mail has been fined £21m by Ofcom failing to meet its delivery targets / Credit: Royal Mail

The watchdog says this is likely to have impacted millions of customers who did not get the service they paid for. 

“Millions of important letters are arriving late, and people aren’t getting what they pay for when they buy a stamp,” explained Ian Strawhorne, who is the Director of Enforcement at Ofcom.

“These persistent failures are unacceptable, and customers expect and deserve better. 

“Royal Mail must rebuild consumers’ confidence as a matter of urgency, and that means making actual significant improvements, not more empty promises.

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“We’ve told the company to publicly set out how it’s going to deliver this change, and we expect to start seeing meaningful progress soon. If this doesn’t happen, fines are likely to continue.”

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Thousands of elderly and disabled people to get free 24-hour bus travel across Greater Manchester

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant

Hundreds of thousands of elderly and disabled people in Greater Manchester are set to benefit from round-the-clock bus travel for free.

Currently, as part on an ongoing pilot scheme, people with a Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM)-issued concessionary travel pass have free unlimited travel on Bee Network buses between 9.30am and midnight during the week, and all day on weekends and public holidays.

The rule was lifted in August on a trial basis for a month, meaning older and disabled residents in Greater Manchester had access to unlimited free bus travel any time between the allocated hours.

During the August trial, more than 100,000 journeys were made by older and disabled people – with up to 6,000 people a day making use of the pilot.

But now, after proving to be a huge success, the pilot is being extended even further, so that 400,000 eligible residents will now get free bus travel 24-hours a day, seven days a week, starting from 1 November.

As well as free early-morning bus travel, during the trial starting in November, eligible residents will be able to board the Bee Network’s night buses for free too.

TfGM says allowing concessionary pass holders to travel at any time will ‘better connect’ them to healthcare, leisure, and retail opportunities.

“The last trial in August was a brilliant success, which saw more than 100,000 journeys made by our older and disabled people before 9.30am,” commented Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.

“We are now carrying out this second trial, at a busier time of year, to see whether we can safely remove the restriction permanently and help our older and disabled people to get to work, go shopping, and get to medical appointments.

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“We want the Bee Network to be the best public transport system possible and this means it needs to support all of our residents and communities to make the journeys they need to make and use the bus more.”

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