{"id":478463,"date":"2026-03-16T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478463\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:46:08","slug":"paperboy-79-says-hell-carry-on-delivering-until-he-cant-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478463\/","title":{"rendered":"Paperboy, 79, says he&#8217;ll carry on delivering until he can&#8217;t walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">How about Christmas tips?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not telling you,&#8221; he replies. &#8220;Taxman might find out. But, yeah, I do really well out of what customers I have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colin was born in a farm cottage more or less opposite the village shop and has lived in Little Weighton, a small village in the Yorkshire Wolds, ever since. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When he left school, he worked on a pig farm, which was later converted into a care home, where Freida worked for 22 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Freida passed away last July after 35 years of marriage. He then lost his brother in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Out of the Bradley family of seven, there&#8217;s only two of us left,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other than sweating in his waterproofs, Colin&#8217;s biggest complaint is traffic speeding through the village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a 30 limit, he&#8217;s doing more than 30,&#8221; he says as a car goes past. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We want traffic slowing down a bit \u2013 there&#8217;s a school there and there&#8217;s a care home here on the left, and the traffic comes tearing down here&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How about Christmas tips? &#8220;I&#8217;m not telling you,&#8221; he replies. &#8220;Taxman might find out. But, yeah, I do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-478463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}