Drugs intercepted at Peterborough postal sorting office – BBC News

ITV News Tens of thousands of extra parcels a day for Royal Mail | Tyne Tees – ITV NewsITV NewsThe boom in internet shopping means the Royal Mail is handling more parcels than ever before in the run up to this Christmas. Across the North East, Southern Scotland, Cumbria and the North East the Royal…

Royal Mail’s pensions ‘black hole’ has more than doubled to some £7bn, placing a ‘ticking timebomb’ under the country’s most cherished state-owned industry. The implications of the soaring pensions deficit are laid bare in a long-awaited assessment of Royal Mail’s operations submitted to ministers in the past few days by Richard Hooper, a former deputy…

Two Royal Marines whose deaths brought the Afghanistan and Iraq toll to 300 were named today as Robert McKibben and Neil Dunstan. More: continued here

Royal Mail Appoints Stuart Simpson As CFO – Quick FactsMarkets Insider(RTTNews) – Royal Mail Plc (RMG.L) announced Stuart Simpson, Director of Group Finance, will be appointed CFO and join the Royal Mail Board. Stuart's appointment follows a comprehensive search that included both internal and external candidates. More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Britain acts to keep Queen's head on stampsAFPLONDON — The government insisted on Sunday it is closing a loophole that could see Queen Elizabeth II's head removed from stamps if the Royal Mail national …Government admits Queen's head could be lost from stampsTelegraph.co.ukOfficials confident about Queen stampsCar Rentals'Keep the Queen's head on stamps'The Press…