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BBC News Royal Mail's Bridgwater staff stage mass walk outBBC NewsAbout 100 staff at the Royal Mail delivery office in Bridgwater, Somerset, have walked out in protest at a colleague's suspension. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said workers were also in dispute over time off for medical appointments.Royal Mail trials …

Royal Mail urges dog owners to keep their animals under controlThe IndependentThere were 3100 attacks in the year to April, down by 14% on the previous year following a £100000 awareness campaign by the Royal Mail, which will be stepped up in the autumn in areas including Reading, Huddersfield, North …

Price cap for parcels confirmed by mail regulator OfcomBBC NewsA cap on prices that Royal Mail can charge for large letters and small parcels sent by second-class post has been confirmed by the regulator. Ofcom decided that the price limit would be linked to the rise allowed for regular second-class …

BBC News Royal Mail trials GPS location deviceseGov monitorPostal workers in East Anglia are using satellite receivers to map the exact location of every property in a Royal Mail trial to improve sat-nav systems. The devices will record the GPS longitude, latitude and altitude co-ordinates of every property in …Handle …

Belfast Telegraph Rise in borrowing deals blow to OsborneFinancial TimesExcluding the one-off effects of a transfer of Royal Mail pension assets on to the government books, public sector net borrowing had risen to £42.9bn in the first three months of the 2012-13 financial year, compared with £38.4bn in the same …

Belfast Telegraph Concerns over Osborne's borrowingBirmingham MailThe weak figures will trouble the Chancellor who wants to trim borrowing in 2012/2013 to £120 billion, excluding a one-off £28 billion boost from the transfer of the Royal Mail pension fund into Treasury ownership, from £127.6 billion last year.Blow to George Osborne as …

More of the borough’s residents and businesses will be seeing changes to the way and times at which their post is delivered as Royal Mail introduces new working arrangements. More: continued here

Royal Mail's plea to stop dogs attacking postmen after 62 per cent rise in …Halifax Evening CourierAccording to Royal Mail and the Communications Workers Union, eight delivery men and women were attacked by dogs in this area between April 2011 and 2012 – a rise of 62 per cent on …

Royal Mail takes 8 Stertil Stokvis loading baysLogistics ManagerRoyal Mail took on Stertil Stokvis' to install the loading bays in order to speed the loading and unloading of a range of vans, trucks and lorries including the centre's fleet of double deck trailers each of which carry loads of up …

BBC News Concern over Royal Mail GPS schemeBBC NewsThe Royal Mail has begun a trial scheme across East Anglia pinpointing the exact location of homes and businesses and plans to sell on the information to sat nav companies. Postal workers are using handheld computers to record the exact location of …