This year’s King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot will be run as a Group One for the first time following the decision to upgrade the sprint. The five-furlong heat was a Group Two despite its increasingly high profile as part of the Global Sprint Challenge series. More: continued here

Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) — U.K. stocks including Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Scottish & Newcastle Plc rose. Tesco Plc fell after Morgan Stanley advised investors to sell shares of Britain’s largest retailer. More: continued here

Auctionbytes Art Sellers Petition eBay with Claims of Search ManipulationAuctionbytes –1 hour agoBy Ina Steiner Sellers in eBay's art category are claiming that certain PowerSellers are forcing their own listings to the top of search results simply by … More: continued here

Tempus: Fuller figuresTimes Online, UK –41 minutes ago… reassuring to learn from today’s second-half update from the home shopping retailer that it came through October’s disruption at Royal Mail unscathed. … More: continued here

Is your postie an unsung hero?Morpeth Herald, UK –2 minutes agoTime is running out for Royal Mail customers in the North East to nominate postmen and women who are the unsung heroes in their community. … More: continued here

Quickly's Neighbors/Porter CountyGary Post Tribune, IN –3 hours agoTo the person who was judging the woman for buying candy with food stamps: Twenty-five years ago, I was laid off work. Things were tight. … More: continued here

Ryedale residents to delvier views on post office closuresYork Press, UK –5 hours agoBy Gerran Grimshaw RYEDALE residents will have the chance to make their views known about impending post office closures at a public meeting tonight. …Council concerned over post office closures24dashPost office campaign under wayic CoventryEU to blame for closuresBury …

Plea to keep post officesNW Evening Mail, UK –9 minutes agoA WEST Lakeland community is calling on post office chiefs not to axe their vital branches. Residents in the Duddon Valley who use the shop and post office… More: continued here

Princess Diana’s former butler, Paul Burrell, whom the late princess once called “my rock,” has cast doubt on whether the princess was ready to marry boyfriend Dodi Fayed at an inquest Monday. More: continued here

Pentagon investigators thought they had discovered a major shipment of contraband when they intercepted parts for F-14 Tomcat warplanes headed to Iran, via FedEx, from Southern California. Under U.S. sanctions since its 1979 revolution, Tehran had been trying for years to illegally obtain spare… More: continued here