Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Expectations of wage growth in UK businesses have fallen to a near two-year low, according to a closely watched Bank of England poll that will ease interest rate-setters’ concerns over …
Read More »New use for former Abergavenny Post Office revealed
The ground floor of the Abergavenny Delivery Office in St Johns Square has been empty since the end of November 2022 when the Post Office closed and relocated to the Ryman store in nearby Cibi Walk. Monmouthshire County Council’s planning department has now approved a change of use planning application. …
Read More »how Royal Mail plans to deliver
The robot that empties cages full of parcels at Royal Mail’s recently opened hub in the Midlands is a potent symbol of the modernisation drive at the UK’s former postal monopoly. Until recently most of Royal Mail’s parcels were still sorted by hand. But at the new facility — dubbed …
Read More »Royal Mail wrongly slaps customer with counterfeit stamp charge for genuine stamp as scandal escalates
Royal Mail has admitted to incorrectly branding a genuine first-class stamp as “counterfeit”, GB News can exclusively reveal. The mistake has called the firm’s “robust, multistage” process for assessing whether stamps are genuine into doubt. Royal Mail has apologised to a customer after Royal Mail branded her genuine stamp “counterfeit” …
Read More »King Charles is opening his residences to the public to make the Royal Family ‘more transparent and cost effective’ – and is acknowledging ‘the need for the monarchy to evolve’, claims royal expert
King Charles III’s decision to open his royal residences to the public indicates he has realised ‘the need for the monarchy to evolve’, a royal expert has claimed. Earlier this week, in an unprecedented move, His Majesty, 75, announced that Balmoral Castle – the late Queen’s favourite retreat in Scotland, will …
Read More »Royal Thai Air Force ready to evacuate Thais from Taiwan after earthquake
The statement follows an earthquake in Taiwan on Wednesday morning, with a magnitude of 7.4 Richter scale off the coast of Hualien, Taiwan. The quake was felt in many areas of Taiwan, causing significant damage in some locations. The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) has prepared aircraft, personnel, and equipment …
Read More »Church Times promotional leaflets for your APCM
THOSE Church Times promotional leaflets — we still have some, or can print some more. If any readers have yet to order some for circulating in their congregation, or to friends, a forthcoming Annual Parochial Church Meeting is an ideal opportunity. Much of the information contained in the Church Times …
Read More »EFL’s Official Bristol Street Motors Trophy Final Matchday Programme On Sale | Peterborough United
Posh supporters can reserve a copy of the EFL’s official matchday programme for the Bristol Street Motors Trophy Final on Sunday against Wycombe Wanderers. The commemorative 100-page A4 keepsake is packed full of opinion pieces, competition analysis, a welcome from Darren Ferguson and exclusive in-depth features from Harrison Burrows, Ephron …
Read More »TTG – Cruise – HAL redraws Grand World Voyage itinerary to avoid Red Sea
04 Apr 2024by Harry Kemble Holland America Line (HAL) has changed its 2025 Grand World Voyage itinerary to protect its passengers and avoid the Red Sea where tensions continue. The last 43 days of Zuiderdam’s Grand World Voyage have been altered to avoid the Red Sea (Credit: HAL) Beth Bodensteiner, HAL’s …
Read More »VT-based Beta hosts president of U.S. Export-Import Bank to show off airplane factory
SOUTH BURLINGTON — The president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States was in Vermont Tuesday to tour the Beta Technologies electric aircraft manufacturing facility at Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport off Williston Road that it helped build with a $169 million loan. Reta Jo Lewis, who is also …
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