McDonald’s sales have fallen worldwide for the first time in nearly four years amid rising prices and ongoing boycotts over the war in Gaza. The fast food giant said same-store sales decreased by 1% in the second quarter of the year – its first drop since the COVID pandemic forced …

Royal Mail has launched a new stamp scanner which lets customers check to see if their stamp is a known counterfeit. The postal giant has also announced a new independent arbitrator, as the final stage of its disputes process. Royal Mail has applied ‘counterfeit stamp’ yellow stickers to the withheld …

NatWest has said it “welcomes” the government’s commitment to returning it to full private ownership after the chancellor announced she was scrapping a retail share sale in the high street bank. Rachel Reeves said the plans, announced by the previous Conservative administration, were a “bad use of taxpayer money” and …

Zara and Mike Tindall are the ‘way forward’ for the royal family, according to Princess Diana’s royal butler Paul Burrell.  The couple, who married in 2011, are celebrating their 13th wedding anniversary today.  Princess Anne’s daughter married the rugby star at Canongate Kirk on Edinburgh’s  Royal Mile on June 30 …

Works to turn a disused farm into a Royal Mail depot would be a nightmare, a neighbour has said. Christine Mallows, 73, has lived in her home, in Vale Avenue, Patcham, for 28 years. She is worried about the effects of demolishing buildings at Patcham Court Farm and the noise …

A woman from Macclesfield has been issued with a community order after stalking and harassing a man – going as far as placing a tracking device on his car and intercepting his post. Veronica Jackson, of Chalford Road, Macclesfield, appeared at Chester Magistrates’ Court on Friday 26 June where she …

Early in December last year, Kirsteen Hobson was covering a colleague’s round. A postal worker for the past nine years in the Highland port of Oban, Hobson remembers the date because she was really looking forward to a Christmas night out. She was on the communal balcony of a block …

Jersey’s emergency planning laws should take into account how the island gets its essential supplies of food, medicine and fuel, a review has said. The Supply Chain Resilience Review by Jersey’s Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel highlighted a number of threats to getting essential goods to the island. It …

John Adams, 71, contacted Royal Mail after the post box on Upperwood Road – opposite Lugano Grove – was knocked down five months ago without being … Source link

Evri is set to hire 9000 new employees in a bid to deal with increases in demand for parcels and its battle with Royal Mail, less than a week … Source link