Royal Mail

  Royal Mail’s parcels revenue has overtaken letters for the first time and now represents 60% of its entire turnover, according to the postal group. Turnover rose in the first half of its financial year to 27 September by almost 10% to £5.7bn. However, even the 31% increase in parcels …

Batches of thousands of quick turnaround covid tests aiming to allow care home visits to return still haven’t arrived on Teesside. The Government unveiled a vast plan to give out on thousands of tests to council public health leaders last Monday (November 10).  Chiefs at the Department of Health and …

Stock markets are set to finish the day in the red as lockdown worries have replaced the recent optimism generated on the back of the vaccine hopes.   Europe Concerns about the health crisis and the lockdowns is the main theme of the session. Traders haven’t forgotten about the hopeful news …

FURIOUS householders across Oxfordshire have hit out at Royal Mail saying their letters and parcels are taking weeks to be delivered. Last week the Oxford Mail reported that people in Didcot and Wallingford were left without post for weeks because of a shortage of postal workers, but since then the …

My non-binary identity shouldn’t stop me from getting the job I want (Picture: Dan Fauzi) While travelling across Vietnam in spring last year, I fully embraced the fact that I am a genderless person and came out as non-binary. What finally triggered this enlightenment – after years of trying to …

Cineworld, one of the world’s largest cinema chains and owner of the multiscreen on Parnell Street in Dublin, is looking at a company voluntary arrangement, an insolvency process used in the UK to cut costs, as part of its talks with lenders to gain access to capital, the Financial Times has …

(For a Reuters live blog on U.S., UK and European stock markets, click LIVE/ or type LIVE/ in a news window) * Johnson Matthey slips as half-year profit slumps * Direct Brexit talks suspended after EU team member tests COVID positive * Royal Mail jumps on raising annual revenue outlook …

Pregnant mother-of-two, 39, who jumped in front of train because she thought her unborn daughter could be born disfigured was let down by mental health workers, family say Coroner rules Zdenka Yabani, from Slough, Berkshire, intentionally killed herself The mother ran across railway platform and ‘star jumped’ in front of …

Traders wiped out all the gains made after this week’s vaccine announcements from Moderna and Pfizer on Thursday as a third announcement, this time from AstraZeneca, failed to impress. The FTSE 100 fell back to 6,334.35 by the end of the day, a 51-point drop, and lower than the 6,359 …

European stocks fell on Thursday as investors feared another round of lockdowns due to soaring coronavirus cases globally, with growth-linked cyclical stocks leading losses across regional markets. DUBLIN The Iseq followed other European indices lower on Thursday, closing 1.4 per cent down. Cardboard box maker Smurfit Kappa, which announced a …