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By Peter Golds

Writing on Remembrance Day, my mind turns to the heroes. One of those was Tommy Flowers, born in 1905 in Abbott Road, Poplar.

He was the son of a bricklayer and, through night school, earned a degree in engineering and went to work for the Post Office.

With figures released this week suggesting industrial action by postal workers has cost London based firms £500million, small businesses in Docklands say they have certainly felt its effects, writes Steven Davies.

Over 43,000 British mail centre workers and drivers walked out at 4am after talks collapsed.

As several well known banking giants started to tumble at the end of last year, some investors wondered whether they should resort to putting their money back under the bed.

Others turned to an organisation better known for selling stamps and next-day deliveries.

TOWN hall posties mailed out leaflets on a week-long five-mile road trip to their own building, it has been revealed.