Princess Beatrice went shopping with her baby yesterday just hours before the Queen stripped her disgraced father Prince Andrew of his honorary military roles and he gave up his HRH style – which she is still allowed to use. The 33-year-old royal was photographed out in London at 2.30pm yesterday, …
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The Queen was ‘saddened’ at having to force Prince Andrew out of the Royal Family but backed Prince Charles in saying he had ‘run out of road’, insiders have revealed. Explaining why the monarch forced her son to stop using his HRH title in order to face his sex case …
Read More »Calls for Andrew to pay security bill after being cast adrift by monarchy
The Duke of York is facing calls to pay for his own security and lose his dukedom as the fallout from his civil sex case continues. Criticism of Andrew is mounting after the Queen stripped him of his remaining patronages and honorary military roles as the monarchy distanced itself from …
Read More »Council could back Quattro House flat plans despite Royal Mail objection
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Read More »FTSE 100 Closes 0.3% Lower as Royal Mail, B&M Plummet
The FTSE 100 closed down 0.3% on Friday, but it continued to outperform most global markets. “The energy sector is helping to keep the FTSE 100 afloat, helped by another two-month high for Brent crude prices, which is keeping a floor under BP and Royal Dutch Shell,” Michael Hewson from …
Read More »Temple Bar’s Ian Lance and Nick Purves: the essence of value investing
Subscribe to the MoneyWeek Podcast on one of these platforms: Transcript Merryn Somerset Webb: Hello and welcome to the MoneyWeek magazine podcast. I am Merryn Somerset Webb, editor-in-chief of the magazine, and I just want to tell you before I start that we are recording this on January 11th. Several …
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Read More »Royal Mail’s profit ambitions look lost in the post backlogs | Business
The number of Royal Mail delivery offices facing delays and backlogs has almost quadrupled in the past couple of weeks, JP Morgan thinks. The bank’s analysts think that, of Royal Mail’s 1,200 or so delivery offices, 77 have “material difficulties with service levels”, compared with 20 at the end of …
Read More »Royal Mail passes ultra ambiguous address test as it delivers letter to Craven chef
A LETTER deliberately ambiguously addressed to a Craven chef and businessman has found its way to his home, thanks to the expert detective work of the postal system. The letter was addressed to: “Chef Mark Dale, somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales. Likes 4×4 Pajeros, curly haired lad. Some Top hotel …
Read More »Royal Mail passes ultra ambiguous address test as it delivers letter to Craven chef
A LETTER deliberately ambiguously addressed to a Craven chef and businessman has found its way to his home, thanks to the expert detective work of the postal system. The letter was addressed to: “Chef Mark Dale, somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales. Likes 4×4 Pajeros, curly haired lad. Some Top hotel …
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