When the National Portrait Gallery reopened last month after a three-year closure, one of its best-known royal portraits was mysteriously missing. Nicky Philipps’s double portrait of Prince William and Prince Harry, painted in happier, pre-feud days back in 2010, was not included in the rehang. The gallery was reopened by …
Read More »Impounded cars twice as likely to be sold or destroyed than returned to owners
More than 6,000 cars have been impounded and destroyed in London over the last five years – with owners given only seven days notice, if any at all. Cars taken off the road for minor infractions such as failure to pay road tax are impounded by local councils, and – …
Read More »Schoolboys injured in £187k Lamborghini horror crash after ‘hiring car for prom’
A top-of-the-range Lamborghini sports car carrying six schoolboys to a prom smashed into a Royal Mail van, leaving several of them injured. The horror incident happened in Beckton, East London at 7.20pm on Tuesday (July 11). The scene was quickly swarmed on by emergency services, as footage of the crash …
Read More »HR Magazine – Royal Mail settles dispute after 14 months of strikes
Royal Mail workers, represented by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have accepted a deal that will end a 14 month dispute over pay and conditions. The deal, which was reached in April after 18 strike dates, has won 67% of the union’s vote. Staff will get a 10% …
Read More »New stamps issued featuring birds, mammals, insects and fish – Perspective Magazine
The Royal Mail said the 10 stamps celebrate the wildlife of the UK’s waterways. A new set of stamps is being issued marking the diversity of birds, mammals, insects and fish. The 10 stamps feature the beaver, Atlantic salmon, kingfisher, beautiful demoiselle, water vole, grey wagtail, common mayfly, otter, brown …
Read More »Public Transport is often too expensive or inaccessible. RideTandem raises £2.3 million to bus you to work
Public transport is broken outside of big cities in many parts of Europe and the UK. It’s expensive, unreliable and not available when people need it. Too often, passengers are left with two choices – car ownership or not going to work. One in four bus services in the UK …
Read More »Learning From the Trucks Cartel Judgment: Mitigation | Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
SUMMARY The Competition Appeal Tribunal’s judgment in Royal Mail and BT’s claim against DAF Trucks has provided welcome clarity on how the legal test for pass on should be applied. It provides helpful guidance on the factors that a defendant may rely on to establish a direct and proximate, causative …
Read More »Royal Mail workers indict CWU leadership for rotten sellout of their year-long fight
What is your view on the ballot outcome and the CWU’s betrayal of the year-long struggle of postal workers? Submit your response in the form below the article. In the aftermath of ballot results announced Tuesday to accept the Communication Workers Union’s (CWU) national agreement with Royal Mail, the World …
Read More »New set of Royal Mail stamps celebrate the UK’s wildlife and rivers (wherever the clean ones are)
New set of Royal Mail stamps celebrate the UK’s wildlife and rivers (wherever the clean ones are) The ten stamps include pictures of a beaver, Atlantic salmon and kingfisher By Milo Pope Published: 20:47 EDT, 12 July 2023 | Updated: 21:01 EDT, 12 July 2023 A new set of stamps is …
Read More »sennder: This partnership is a testament to the power of innovation and collaboration in the logistics industry
sennder Technologies GmbH, Europe’s digital freight forwarder and Poste Italiane S.p.a., the Italian postal and logistics operator, have renewed their Italian Joint Venture (JV) and commercial agreement for up to 10 years, with the potential to generate up to €2.3 billion revenues for sennder Italia during that period. Together, the …
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