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According to Guy Opperman, the pensions minister, companies with defined benefit pensions are interested in collective defined contribution pensions, which Royal Mail is introducing for its 140,000 employees (“Collective schemes threat to final salary pensions”, October 19). CDC pensions aim to sit between DB — an employer guaranteeing a pension …

Margaret Atwood has been given a rare honour by the Queen. As part of an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on Friday, the Canadian author was presented with an Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. Atwood, who was awarded the Booker Prize for The Testaments, her sequel …

Sharon Corr was alone a she ventured out for shopping during a recent appearance in Madrid, amid reports that her 18-year marriage to Irish barrister Robert Bonnar is over.  The violinist, who shot to fame with her three siblings in pop band The Corrs, was weighed down with bags after …

THE lyrical genius of Puccini will sing out from the Prestatyn Scala next month. The composer’s incredible La bohème will be presented by the Royal Opera House live to the cinema on Wednesday, January 29 at 7.45pm. Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful arias, …

Online retailers and their physical counterparts are bound to face a colossal problem in the days leading up to Black Friday and Christmas once Royal Mail workers start staging a strike. Although the dates for the nationwide strike have yet to be announced, many are speculating that it’s likely to …

Royal Mail has announced that Unite members have voted in favour of a pay deal for junior and middle managers, which was recommended by the union. Following a turnout of 69%, 68.4% of Unite members voted in favour of the offer in its ballot to members. The agreement consists of …

The idea of green or eco-investment is extremely popular at present. Like all things ‘green’ it confers the idea that by making an investment in this way you’re actively working to protect the future of the environment and are interested in sustainability. Even the UK government is on the act …

Boris Johnson’s call for a general election in December is both a political and logistical gamble. Here are some potential challenges that organisers of a pre-Christmas election could face. Winter weather A carefully choreographed mid-December campaign could be wrecked by gales, heavy snow, ice and floods, ruining travel plans and …

The production of the new 50p Brexit coins are said to have been put on pause as the likelihood that the UK will not leave the EU by October 31 recedes. EU ambassadors have agreed that an extension to the UK’s membership is needed. The Prime Minister insisted Britain could …

Plans to release THREE MILLION Brexit Day 50p coins are ‘paused’ by the Treasury after the EU says the UK will not leave on October 31 The Treasury confirmed that manufacturing had been placed in hiatus  The EU said today it has agreed to a further Brexit delay past October …