UK retailers face £360 million of Christmas 2020 clothing and footwear returns, according to a survey by Retail Economics and Penningtons Manches Cooper. This comes as apparel retailers have grappled £4.3 billion of returns across 2020 as a whole. Return rates of clothing and footwear under pressure as sales …
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Postal workers could be utilised to check on the wellbeing of the elderly and to deliver prescriptions. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has reportedly proposed the idea to the loss-making Royal Mail to build on its advantage of “the fact we own trust on the doorstep”. Royal Mail’s 120,000 frontline …
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The spread betting firms are calling the UK blue-chip index 35.5 points higher at 6,524.55 The FTSE 100 looks set to open firmly in positive territory amid hopes of a global economic recovery and renewed optimism over US economic stimulus plans. The UK’s top shares index will take its cue …
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Ranvir Singh is a regular presenter on ITV news and appears on Good Morning Britain when the show’s main hosts are off. She is known as one of the programme’s original hosts, but more recently she made headlines for reaching the semi-final of Strictly Come Dancing last year. Ranvir has …
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The royal family will ‘not like’ the upcoming Princess Diana’s upcoming biopic starring Kristen Stewart, an expert has claimed. Robert Jobson, a royal biographer who knew the late Princess’ ‘well’ said that it was ‘inevitable’ The Firm won’t enjoy the picture ‘at all’. The film, directed by Pablo Larraín and …
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TWO police officers went to a sorting office to retrieve a parcel of £4,250 in cash — posted to fraudsters who had duped an 80-year-old grandmother. PCs Jay Monk and Nicholas Beynon came to the rescue after one of the gang phoned the woman, pretending to be from her bank. …
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The envelope was shared online by the recipient. (SWNS) A postie in Cornwall miraculously managed to deliver a card to the right house despite it being addressed to “somewhere at the top of town”. The envelope was was shared online by its recipient Tracey Fitzharris who was sent it by …
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What eyesore? (courtesy: Ed Oldfield/LDRS) Paignton owners and Royal Mail object to compulsory purchase The Royal Mail and the owner of Crossways shopping centre in Paignton have objected to a compulsory purchase order for the complex which Torbay Council wants to demolish and replace with flats. The concrete centre including …
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Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi today said AstraZeneca is ‘confident’ its jab prevents serious illness caused by the South African coronavirus variant after early data from a small study suggested the vaccine was less effective against the strain. Mr Zahawi said he had spoken to England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan …
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A top aide to Boris Johnson is today caught up in a conflict of interest row over claims he helped broker a deal for China’s new embassy on behalf of the Government while being paid by two of the companies involved. Lord Udny-Lister helped the Foreign Office lead talks with …
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