Street without post for six months after dog bite

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A street in Liverpool has been left without post for nearly six months after Royal Mail suspended deliveries because one of its workers was bitten by a dog. Deliveries to the Ash Vale cul-de-sac’s 26 properties were put on hold after a postman was chased and bitten by a dog in September, noted the Liverpool Echo. Royal Mail said that the animal remained at the address, meaning that it was unsafe, but residents said this caused them to miss important letters, including cancer test results and hospital appointment messages.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.