Southeastern pension fund liabilities on the line | Business

The government’s sacking this week of Go-Ahead from Southeastern over the failure to repay £25 million of subsidies, has left the taxpayer with a much larger bill: a £675 million hole in the rail network’s pension fund whose liabilities the Treasury must now take on. Analysis of Southeastern’s most recent …

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Taunton student’s hopes of designing postage stamp

A TAUNTON student is hoping her design will be chosen to be used on a postage stamp. Mary-Tess McAlonan, in Year 7 at Queen’s College, is in the final stages of a record-breaking design competition. She is in the last 120 of the Heroes Stamp Design Competition, and both Mary-Tess …

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DAN WOOTTON: Why Kate can thank Meghan for her metamorphosis

With the all-regal glamour of a modern-day Grace Kelly, a sequinned and resplendent Duchess of Cambridge swept down the red carpet at the world premiere of No Time to Die in jaw dropping fashion. What the hell happened to the lovely-but-just-a-little-frumpy Kate? Even James Bond himself Daniel Craig struggled to …

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FTSE 100 drifts lower amid interest rate concerns

London’s top markets slipped back after better-than-expected economic growth figures renewed speculation that there could be an increase in interest rates. Markets had been in positive territory at the start of the session but an announcement by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that GDP had increased by 5.5% in …

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Skyports Receives LIght UAS Operator Certificate

Skyports Obtains Light UAS Operator Certificate to Self-Authorize Drone Flights by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Skyports, the world-leading operator of cargo drone deliveries and advanced air mobility (AAM) infrastructure, has been granted a Light UAS Operator Certificate from the Irish Aviation Authority, allowing them to self-authorise Beyond Visual …

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