The familiar red, Royal Mail pillar box at the corner of my street on the fringes of Richmond Park in South-West London features the cypher of Edward VII.
Across the country there are still postboxes from Queen Victoria’s reign, which carry the letters VR — which stands for Victoria Regina. Regina meaning queen in Latin.
Our postboxes are living memorials to the kings and queens of Great Britain who followed her — some 130 are marked with the cypher of
The owner of a now-broke ’boutique’ construction company was flogging her luxury goods online in the months leading up to her business’ collapse.
Cynthia Lu, co-owner of Modco Residential, was trying to sell designer shoes, bar carts, coffee tables and baby bouncers as her Perth-based company entered administration on July 23.
Some of the items, which failed to sell, were discounted by hundreds of dollars by the struggling mogul as she desperately tried to offload them.
Ms Lu and her
