BBC News Stamps celebrate Jersey's finance industryBBC NewsJersey Post has commissioned a new set of stamps celebrating the 50th anniversary of the island's finance industry. The stamps have been printed on special paper and embossed so they look like banknotes. The liard, a copper monetary unit used in the … …

Blog: Food Stamps for Fast Food … RidiculousPatch.comFood stamps are intended to help people feed their families, not corporations to beef up their bottom line. By Denise Williams Some fast food restaurants are lobbying to get a piece of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program pie. …Food assistance available for SNAP …

Construction Enquirer Developer plans major new Oxford Street schemeConstruction EnquirerThe site between Rathbone Place and Newman Street is currently owned by the Royal Mail. Great Portland will lease the current site back to Royal Mail until June 2013 before starting on plans for major mixed-use redevelopment. …and more » More: continued …

GREAT Staughton will regain its post office next month – at least for a year-long trial period. More: continued here

Auctionbytes Patagonia pleads: Buy only what you needSmartPlanet.com (blog)Patagonia last week launched its Common Threads Initiative, a partnership with eBay that asks customers to buy less, buy better quality, and reuse, repair, resell and recycle more. …Patagonia Launches Multi-Seller Storefront on eBayAuctionbytesall 5 news articles » More: continued here

Boston Globe No more mail on Saturday?The Desert SunUS Postal Service customers sort their mail Thursday at the Palm Springs Post Office. / Richard Lui, The Desert Sun How should the US Postal Service's financial woes be fixed? Send us your ideas by logging on to mydesert.com/letters. …Postal Service faces …

LONDON (SHARECAST) – Property group Great Portland Estates (GPE) has been giving its cheque book a bashing, buying up properties in London’s West End. More: continued here

Major Falls at NASDAQ – (AATI, VRSN, YRCW, EBAY)USA Market NewseBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) slipped -6.725 to $28.46 and its total volume during the last trading session was 19.86 million shares more than the average volume of 14.48 million. Its shares were trading within the range of $28.28-$30.12 while stock was …

Great Portland buys Royal Mail building freeholdShareCastGPE will pay Royal Mail Group (RMG) £120m in cash for its freehold interest and has leased back the entire site to RMG until June 2013, with GPE receiving total net rent of £4.6m. After that, RMG will vacate the building, at which point …

POLICE are calling on the public to help them identify a beanie-clad man who threatened staff with guns before robbing two Australia Post shops in Brisbane. More: continued here