Last updated at 12:43, Thursday, 15 October 2009

A Cumbrian hospice has delayed an annual prize draw because of strike action in the postal service.

Carlisle’s Eden Valley Hospice was due to draw the winner of the compeititon last Saturday.

But staff decided to postpone it after receiving a sudden glut of entries in the last few days.

Some Royal Mail staff in Carlisle took part in a wave of regional strikes last Friday in a row over modernisation of the service.

Eden Valley Hospice’s head of fundraising Colin Powell said: “We have noticed a huge amount of mail arriving in the last few days with entries for our Annual Grand Draw and we have some concerns that some entries may have been caught up in the backlog of mail.

“We have been given permission by the Gambling Commission to delay the draw for a week.”

The draw will now take place tomorrow.

First published at 11:35, Thursday, 15 October 2009
Published by http://www.newsandstar.co.uk