postcode

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Dummigan, who is a diabetes prevention health coach in the Southern Health Trust, said access to timely treatment should not be a postcode or cancer type lottery.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

The party has also called for an end to a "postcode lottery" in childcare caused by some councils applying entitlement from the start of a school term rather than from a child's third birthday.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

Each residential postcode is linked to a weather station.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

The Southern Trust is the only trust in Northern Ireland without an inpatient addiction rehabilitation facility, which campaigners have said has created a "postcode lottery".

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

On Yahoo’s front page there are news stories, tailored to your postcode or whatever—God only knows how they know my postcode, but they do.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins