postwoman

Striker Kelly Smith's club Arsenal might have been the top women's team in England at the time, but six months before the Euros she had to work as a temporary postwoman to keep herself in boots.

North Ronaldsay postwoman Sarah Moore said: "It's really exciting to be involved in this trial. North Ronaldsay is a very remote area of the UK and I'm proud to be involved."

"Laurence is as bananas as ever, introducing himself to postwoman Lisa and her daughter Kirsty by staying absolutely still and reclining on a sofa in a pair of leather trousers like he was posing for Jack Dawson on the Titanic," wrote Metro's Emma Kelly.

“I felt like giving the postwoman a big hug today. … The dog didn’t even bark this morning.”

Rachel Ritman, 56, a postwoman living on the outskirts of Fredrikstad, bought her Opel Ampera two years ago and said she has not regretted her choice, even if she was “not sure we would have gone electric without the incentives”.