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A deep clean has been carried out at a Royal Mail delivery office in Fife after a member of staff tested positive for Covid-19. The female employee caught the virus after coming into close contact with an individual who was later confirmed as having the bug. She was sent home …

Stephen Jones, 57, got behind the wheel of a First Midland bus and ferried unsuspecting fare-paying passengers without telling his new bosses of his crime. He failed to declare that he was going to stand in the dock at the High Court in Edinburgh over the deaths of Ian McKay, …

15 September 2020 Transport / Logistics Services Research published by Royal Mail shows some anticipated long term positive changes in UK online shopping habits. Eight in ten surveyed in Royal Mail’s latest research expect that the amount of their online shopping is set to remain the same or increase in the …

London City Airport became the latest employer to announce major job losses since the start of the pandemic as it revealed plans that could see more than a third of the roles at the airport cut. The airport has announced it is cutting up to 239 jobs as part of …

It looks like the more than 170 different products and services offered by Post Office will be lessened. Fenchurch Advisory Partners has reportedly been tapped to conduct a strategic review of the company’s insurance operations which span travel, protection, as well as home and motor. According to Sky News, Post …

Shares of security services firm G4S surged after privately-owned Canadian rival GardaWorld announced a hostile 190p per share possible offer valuing the company at £2.96bn. The offer price is 30% premium to Friday’s closing share price and an 86% premium to the price prior to its first approach in June. …

Welcome to Edinburgh Live’s coronavirus LIVE blog for Tuesday 15 September. We’ll be bringing you all the latest COVID-19 updates throughout the day from Edinburgh and beyond. Nicola Sturgeon raised serious concerns with the backlog in test results yesterday which she said was affecting how timeously the government could report …

While there has been a postal service available in Newry from as far back as 1564, Newry only became a Post Town in 1784, the year the Irish Post Office separated from the English Post Office. Sometime after 1761, the Post Office was relocated from Market Street to Marcus Square …

Transport secretary Grant Shapps is reportedly set to announce the end of rail franchises more than a generation after rail privatisation under the Railways Act in 1993. Franchises are set to be replaced by fixed-fee contracts from April next year, The Telegraph has reported. These ‘concession’ agreements would be similar …

WE ARE waiting, with some trepidation, for the publication of the much-delayed Williams rail review and an indication from the Department for Transport of what it has in mind for the future of our railway. There have been signals — Grant Shapps has been busy briefing his friends in the …