The Post Office will pick up the cost of repaying the taxpayer for grants paid out to branches now closing. More: continued here

DRAMA erupted in a quiet west Wiltshire village after a would-be thief got more than he bargained for when he attempted to rob a village store and post office. More: continued here

Daily Mail Exam board 'loses' courseworkguardian.co.uk, UK –3 hours agoColchester County high school in Colchester, Essex, said a series of blunders by Edexcel, and the Royal Mail had led to 79 pieces of its pupils' chemistry …GCSE papers go missing – school offered stamps as compensationTimes OnlinePupils' exam work vanishes after 'blunders'ScotsmanExam …

RESIDENTS' ANGER OVER POST OFFICE CLOSURE PLANHerts and Essex Observer, UK –26 minutes agoBy James Burton THE Post Office's decision to put the Havers Lane branch in Bishop's Stortford on its latest closure list has sparked fury on the estate … More: continued here

Google Mail automatically discards eBay and PayPal phishing emailsHeise Online, Germany –1 hour agoGoogle will no longer forward eBay and PayPal phishing emails to recipients using its Google Mail service – indeed they won't even make it into the spam … More: continued here

Google’s Gmail Joins Yahoo, eBay, and PayPal in Phishing FightDigital Transactions, IL –19 hours agoInc. to become the second big e-mail provider publicly working with online auction host eBay Inc. and its PayPal payment service to fight phishing scams. … More: continued here

The overall financial performance of Royal Mail has been weak in …PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria –3 hours agoRoyal Mail Group, a UK based messenger group, provides package delivery, and transportation and logistics services in around 34 European countries. … More: continued here

Neb. post office evacuated over powder scareAction 3 News, NE –13 minutes ago(AP) – A package leaking powder causes the temporary evacuation of a US Post office in Bellevue, south of Omaha. The package was discovered shortly after 11 … More: continued here

eBay, PayPal and Google join anti-phishing forcesComputerWeekly.com, UK –Jul 9, 2008PayPal and its owner eBay have announced a link-up with Google's Gmail webmail service to protect consumers against fraudulent e-mails and phishing attacks. … More: continued here

Alistair Burt’s monthly column on Post Office proposals (11/07/2008 09:02:17) More: continued here