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BBC News Royal Mail price caps confirmed for large letters, small parcelsPost and ParcelThe move followed the deregulation of most of Royal Mail's prices back in April, when Ofcom decided the universal service provider was in a better position to control its own postal rates, since customers now have the …

Postmen strike at Bridgwater Delivery OfficeThis is The West CountryThis morning 100 Royal Mail employees went on strike saying they were protesting against managers 'bullying' staff and breaking agreements with the Communications Workers Union (CWU). The workers were furious after a postman with 25 years … More: continued here

Daily Mail Osborne under pressure over deficit-cutting as borrowing rises to £14.4billion …Daily MailThe Chancellor wants to trim borrowing in 2012/2013 to £120 billion, excluding a one-off boost from the transfer of the Royal Mail pension fund into Treasury ownership. This compares with borrowing of £125.7 billion in the last …

The communications watchdog said the price cap will be the same as that for second class ordinary letters, meaning that prices cannot increase by more than 53 per cent over the next seven years. More: continued here

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 …