Royal Mail

Never mind the quality, just look at that income. The collapse in the Royal Mail Group (LSE: RMG) share price has driven the yield to an eye-watering 15%, but don’t be fooled by that headline number, because it’s about to fall sharply. As Royal Mail’s problems mount, management is cutting the …

Prince William fears Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s return to the UK will steal the ‘spotlight’ and overshadow his tour of Ireland, source claims Prince William and Kate Middleton, both 38, will tour Ireland from March 3 to 5 Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will attend Endeavour Fund Awards on March …

Two more cases of the killer coronavirus have today been confirmed in the UK, both of them travellers who caught the virus in Europe – including one who is believed to have returned from a hotel in Tenerife where 160 Britons are quarantined. It comes amid an escalating crisis on …

Four pupils at Prince George and Princess Charlotte’s school are in self-isolation over fears they may have contracted the coronavirus. The children, who attend the Thomas’s Battersea school in southwest London have been sent home and are awaiting test results, it was reported this evening.   It comes as at least …

New film Military Wives, starring Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, is based on the inspirational choir of the same name.  The phenomenon bloomed into the Military Wives Choirs, a charity which supports 2,300 women from the military community in 76 choirs across the UK and abroad.  Here, nine original members tell …

Ballot papers for industrial action that could lead to the first national postal strike in more than a decade will be sent out next week. Yesterday the Communication Workers Union formally served notice of the ballot in a row over Royal Mail’s attempts to bring in automated parcel-sorting hubs and …

‘Houdini’ baboon gets the snip as planned vasectomy goes ahead after rogue monkey went on rampage with his two ‘wives’ at a Sydney hospital A male baboon who escaped at a Sydney hospital has had a vasectomy   The 15-year-old baboon went on a rampage after a lock failed on a …

The Duke of Sussex today embarked on his final round of engagements as a senior working royal as he launched a new eco-friendly travel firm in Edinburgh – and asked delegates ‘just to call him Harry’. Prince Harry, who will step down as a senior royal in less than five …

The notice follows Royal Mail’s proposed 6% pay increase, part of a three-year deal with the CWU last week, in a bid to appease the union following threats of another strike ballot. However, hopes for a settlement faded when CWU said last week that it could call for a strike …

A Hartcliffe man appeared in court after ordering an illegal weapon over the internet.  Charlie Bevan, of Collinson Road, imported a butterfly knife because he has a “penchant” for weaponry. Butterfly knives, or balisongs, originate from the Philippines. The folding pocketknives conceal their blade when closed. Bevan, 27, appeared in …