Clive Greenwood who runs the Ribble Valley Music Festival with his wife Barbara thought the letter was a prank, but it turned out to be truly a Royal Mail. It expressed the interest The Queen has in the fund-raising Ribble Valley Music Festival. Clive said: “The letter and card came …
Read More »9 amazing old images of Portsmouth vans and their livery
Some of the included are a 1940’s Television Licensing detector van, an old Royal Mail van in 1908, the original Citizens Advice van and a beautifully shaped W. Pink van, they were a well known Portsmouth grocery firm. An ambulance driver gets directions in a requisitioned laundry van at Cosham …
Read More »Britain celebrates 150th anniversary of FA Cup with 10 stamps
By David Hartwig Royal Mail, the post office of Great Britain, is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Football Association (FA) Challenge Cup with a March 8 issue of 10 stamps. Six of the stamps celebrate themes that make this soccer cup such a prestigious competition. The other four stamps, …
Read More »Royal Mail receives another sell note as cost pressures mount
Headwinds including disappointing package delivery growth and impending labour costs add to Liberum’s downgrade yesterday Royal Mail PLC (LSE:RMG) has received its second sell note in two days, as Credit Suisse downgraded the postage company to Underperform and downgraded its price target by more than a third. The broker’s analyst …
Read More »Royal Mail employees help uncover drug dealer after smelling parcel addressed to him
A drug dealer was caught after Royal Mail employees smelt a parcel at their depot and informed police. The package was addressed to Daniel Lloyd Taylor, 25, and passed through a sorting office on its way to his home. However, when postal workers raised the alarm, officers raided his house …
Read More »Leicestershire woman's £435 hair extensions lost in post – BBC News
Royal Mail apologised for losing the delivery. Miss Dawe said she had sent the parcel from a Birmingham post office in January. Source link
Read More »FTSE companies to invest in, second Royal Mail downgrade, ITV’s new streaming site and Chelsea up for sale…
Here’s Proactive’s round-up of the top financial stories of the day, with helpful links taking you directly to the news 1. Nine FTSE companies a safe bet in war times However, the analysts cautioned that given the invasion had no visible end in sight and with the multiple potential risks, …
Read More »Coats Group rises after robust annual results | Business
The latest batch of corporate results may have disappointed investors yesterday, but a few shone through amid the gloom — not least Coats Group, which shot to the top of the mid-cap index thanks to a robust set of annual results. The maker of industrial threads unveiled a 75 per …
Read More »Kate Middleton is ‘sharing more’ about her family, royal biographer claims
The Duchess of Cambridge is ‘sharing more’ about her family because she ‘needed to raise the bar’ following the Queen’s recent health struggles and Megxit, a royal biographer has claimed. Kate Middleton, 40, who shares Prince George, eight, Princess Charlotte, six, and Prince Louis, three, with Prince William, 39, has …
Read More »Special Royal Mail postboxes celebrating authors will mark World Book Day
Royal Mail is unveiling special postboxes celebrating authors and illustrators to mark World Book Day on Thursday. The postboxes feature lines from books by authors including Greg James and Chris Smith, Nadiya Hussain, Dara McAnulty and Martin Waddell, with artwork from the likes of Harry Potter cover illustrator Jonny Duddle. …
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