Loophole ‘could let Royal Mail’s new owner duck delivery guarantee’

Royal Mail yesterday said its profit had more than doubled but warned its one-price-goes-anywhere universal postage service was in the red and under threat. The company said the challenge from electronic media and rival postal services meant it needed to step up modernisation while plunging stockmarkets had sent its pension fund deficit soaring. At the…

Telegraph.co.uk Questor: Royal Mail's strike threat is bad news, but you shouldn't sell your shares just yetTelegraph.co.ukThe last problem has now hardened into a clear threat: nine in 10 of Royal Mail's CWU members have voted in favour of industrial action, on a high turnout of 74pc. Late yesterday afternoon the CWU announced two days…

Irish Times Police investigating Neil Lennon bombs find another suspect packageDaily MailThe latest package – believed to be a parcel bomb – was found at the National Return Letter Centre in Belfast, where mail which has not been delivered and has no return to sender address is retained by Royal Mail. It is the fifth…

Driver dies in smash with mail truckThe Scottish SunA WRECKED van lies on its side at the side of a debris-strewn road yesterday — after the driver died in a horror smash with a Royal Mail truck. Emergency crews raced to the scene of carnage on the A944 near Westhill, Aberdeenshire, at 7am. More: continued…

Aidan O’Brien reports Yeats to be at the top of his game as the veteran prepares to bid for his second victory in the Royal Bank Of Scotland Goodwood Cup. More: continued here