Royal Mail

The Government has sold half of its remaining 30% stake in Royal Mail. Around 150 million shares – 15% of the privatised company – have been sold to institutional investors at 500p per share. The sale has raised £750m. The Government is also to give up a further 1% of …

Decisive action: the Battle of Camperdown in October 1797 was regarded as the Royal Navy’s greatest triumph, until Trafalgar SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Researching the history of Croydon’s part in the wars fought across Europe and North America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries has taken DAVID MORGAN, right, in …

A guest on the popular show Antiques Roadshow brought with her an amethyst necklace, a family heirloom, that supposedly belonged to a British socialite and the mistress of King Edward VII. If the guest was looking for a nice pay day, her hopes were quickly dashed when jewelry expert Sarah …

Under the SFI, farmers can receive money for turning their arable and horticultural fields into bee friendly wildflower meadows, grassland or planting species that can feed winter birds. The scheme has proved so popular to struggling farmers that last month the government was forced to issue a crackdown, warning that …

The Sunday Times’s Lucy Tobin told her readers to book their profits in Centrica and ‘sell’. Yes, the energy outfit had benefitted tremendously from the disruptions brought on by the war in Ukraine. Indeed, it had shifted from net debt of £3bn in 2021 to £2.7bn of net cash. But …

By Sam Merriman Published: 17:32 EDT, 28 April 2024 | Updated: 18:21 EDT, 28 April 2024 Union bosses have hinted they will accept an end to six-day letter deliveries, paving the way for Royal Mail to make historic cuts to postal services. The Communication Workers Union leaders have suggested they …

Investment trusts are subject to the UK’s ‘pernicious’ stamp duty regime This means savers pay a 0.5% levy when they buy shares in these trusts  Trusts also charged 0.5% when they purchase shares in companies  By Hugo Duncan Updated: 16:52 EDT, 28 April 2024 Britain must scrap the ‘double taxation’ …

Mr Hollinrake wrote: “You will be aware of concerns being expressed by parliamentary colleagues about the £5 surcharge being applied, where a number of them have claimed that they have bought stamps from legitimate sources, but which have then been identified as counterfeit by your system. “I recognise that where …

Government, which left Royal Mail so vulnerable, needs to push through reforms  These would give current boss Martin Seidenberg a fighting chance New ownership, even if proprietor is benign, involves disruption and risk By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Updated: 17:06 EDT, 28 April 2024 Czech Sphinx: Businessman Daniel …

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will tour Nigeria in an unofficial Royal visit after being invited by the country’s government to take part in ‘cultural activities’.  The Duke of Sussex, 39, will fly to the west African country to join Meghan just days after his return to Britain for the Invictus Games 10th …