Royal Mail today launches an ambitious new environment plan, which includes a long-term target to reduce its average carbon emissions per parcel it delivers in the UK from 205gCO2e today to 50gCO2e. The company has also brought forward its Net Zero target by 10 years to 2040 and is committing …
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The Queen’s message marking the end of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations acknowledges her “frailty” and is “more realistic”, a royal expert has said. The monarch, 96, pledged to continue to serve “to the best of my ability, supported by my family”. She said that while she may not have attended …
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6 June 2022 Transport / Logistics Services PostNL and three of its main trades unions have agreed a pay rise for its 16,500 Dutch delivery workers worth 8%. Effective 1st January 2021 (backdated) the delivery staff have a pay rise of 4% while on the 1st January 2023 they will receive …
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A High Court judge is preparing to make decisions about the future of a 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute. Doctors treating Archie Battersbee at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, think it “highly likely” he is dead and say life-support treatment should end. …
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More than 20 British Second World War veterans gathered on Sunday near Pegasus Bridge, one of the first sites liberated by Allied forces from Nazi Germany’s control, as part of commemorations honouring the nearly 160,000 troops from the UK, the US, Canada and other nations who landed in Normandy on …
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Nathan Collins has insisted the Republic of Ireland’s Nations League defeat in Armenia could prove to be a good thing in the long run. Eduard Spertsyan’s sweet long-range strike in Yerevan was enough to hand the hosts a 1-0 victory in their first League B outing and severely dent Ireland’s …
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Leicestershire housebuilding giant Barratt is on the hunt for a new chairman. John Allan is set to step down from the top job next year, according to Sky News, which says that Barratt has instructed Russell Reynolds Associates to find a successor to Allan, who is also the chair at …
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IT WAS a right royal celebration as communities came together to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. In Dorchester people took to the streets and parks to enjoy the festivities. Brewery Square held an afternoon of live music, British delicacies, face painting, crafts and performances to entertain everyone celebrating the Queen’s …
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The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations have ended with another balcony appearance by the nation’s longest-serving monarch in front of large crowds. Festivities had got under way with the Queen appearing on the balcony with working members of the family after a Trooping the Colour ceremony where, for the first time, …
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The Queen delighted Platinum Jubilee revellers by making a much-anticipated Buckingham Palace balcony appearance that set the seal on four days of celebrations. Surrounded by her family, the monarch was cheered by thousands of well-wishers after the Platinum Pageant told the story of her life, and the nation, with an …
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