Royal Mail is set to be allowed to deliver second-class letters on alternate weekdays and to stop Saturday deliveries under proposals to shake up postal service rules announced by the industry regulator. Ofcom said cutting the deliveries to every other weekday with a price cap on second-class stamps, while maintaining …
Read More »Royal couple set to join Prince Harry at his Invictus Games in Vancouver next month
Prince Joachim and Princess Marie of Denmark are set to attend Prince Harry’s Invictus Games in Canada next month. The event, which will be held in Vancouver and Whistler from 8 to 16 February, will be the first to incorporate winter sports, and will be broadcast on ITV in the …
Read More »Take That star Jason Orange teams up with football manager for unexpected career move | nottinghampost
Former Take That member Jason Orange has made a surprising career move, a decade after leaving the band and stepping out of the public eye. The 54 year old singer, who rose to fame as part of the iconic boyband’s original line-up in 1990 alongside Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Robbie …
Read More »Rachel Reeves is trapped by her own rhetoric
Making speeches is the easy bit. Back in the real world, decisions come along to test the government’s “growth” agenda. Take the latest from the North Sea: a legal ruling bound to rattle investors, embolden environmental campaigners — not least over Heathrow’s third runway — and highlight another bit of …
Read More »Tentative agreement for USPS city letter carriers likely to be rejected
Postal workers: take up the fight for rank-and-file control! Join the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee by filling out the form below. USPS Truck [Photo by Flickr, Lisa Brewster / CC BY-SA 4.0] The tentative agreement between the US Postal Service (USPS) and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) appears …
Read More »true student’s Nottingham PBSA tops out
CGI of true student’s Nottingham student accommodation development. Last week, true student celebrated a construction milestone, topping out at its Nottingham purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) development, marking a significant milestone in its journey to completion. The scheme has breathed new life into the historic former Royal Mail sorting office building, …
Read More »Charged EVs | Redivivus and Re-New-Able team up to open Illinois battery recycling facility
US battery recycling technology firms Redivivus and Re-New-Able Technologies have partnered to establish a scalable lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Illinois. Re-New-Able is leading the project, using Redivivus’s Redi-Shred recycling technology. The facility will process batteries of any state of charge or health from local businesses and OEM factories. It …
Read More »a familiar story or political earthquake?
This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. If you’re not a subscriber, you can still receive the newsletter free for 30 days Good morning. I haven’t written about the opinion polls very much because, …
Read More »EU’s Gas Debate and Royal Mail’s Overhaul
European officials are currently engaged in talks regarding the potential restart of Russian pipeline gas sales to the European Union as a part of a peace settlement to end the conflict in Ukraine. This proposal has sparked intense debate across the EU. In the UK, Shell’s CEO, Wael Sawan, has …
Read More »‘Go back to office’ Barclays tells staff; Royal Mail 2nd class changes; Renault Filante – Car Dealer Magazine
Kendall pledges to ‘overhaul’ government relationship with employers A Cabinet minister has pledged to ‘overhaul’ the government’s relationship with employers with reforms to Jobcentres to ‘better meet’ the needs of businesses. Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall described her department as the ‘HR department’ for ministers’ growth missions as she …
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