Royal Mail expands its fleet, adding 87 new electric vehicles to one of its largest mail centres in London, Mount Pleasant. The move will expand on efforts to reduce its carbon footprint and emissions in the city and their push towards zero-emissions entirely. The mail centre at mount pleasant is …
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At first glance, the industrial transport sector seems a rather odd grouping of companies, covering everything from marine engineering and shipbroking to private aviation and letter delivery. But there is a common factor on which their performance hinges: business confidence. Clarkson’s (CKN) financial division ran aground last year as global …
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A postal worker in Yate has avoided being sent to prison after he was found to have stolen scores of letters containing gift cards and cash. Daniel Cole kept the letters and later spent the gift cards at stores in and around Bristol, magistrates heard. The 39-year-old, from Nibletts Hill …
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Chatting to someone the other day, I mentioned that I was sort of semi-retired – not actually drawing a pension, but not working as hard as I used to, either. Instead, a lot of the day-to-day bills were paid by a monthly income that I took from a couple of ISAs. The …
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DPD has ordered 300 electric vans for use in the UK. Nissan is to deliver its e-NV200 by May 2020. DPD is thus expanding its electric fleet in the UK to 450 vehicles and aims to reach the 500 e-vehicle mark by the end of 2020. By then ten per …
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The current system of rail franchising isn’t working, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has admitted. Mr Shapps made it clear that he plans major changes to the way our rail industry works, as he announced that private sector operator Arriva was to be stripped of the Northern rail franchise, which will …
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Shahbaz Sharif sues David Rose, Mail on Sunday in UK high court LONDON: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday formally launched a defamation suit at the London High Court against journalist David Rose and Daily Mail & Associated Newspaper Limited (ANL) — …
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L-R: Gary O’Hare, Executive Director of Nursing and Chief Operating Officer; Claire Williams, UNISON Northern’s Regional Secretary; Mark Purvis, Staff Side Chair; Lynne Shaw, Acting Executive Director of Workforce and OD; Beth Farhat, Regional Secretary for the Northern TUC; Malcom Aiston, Managing Director of NTW Solutions; Victoria Bullerwell, Head of …
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Labour leadership contender Rebecca Long-Bailey was accused of lying today after giving an account of working through the night to prepare for a crucial anti-austerity meeting. The left-wing candidate to replace Jeremy Corbyn told an event at the weekend how she worked until 3am in 2016 after the resignation of …
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A quick-thinking neighbour helped to prevent a terrified 79-year-old woman from being scammed out of thousands of pounds. The neighbour stepped in and called police after the pensioner informed them they had sent an envelope containing more than £3,000 to an address after it was demanded of her. The petrified …
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