Stanway café at old delivery office put on hold by council

Colchester Council’s planning committee has voted to put the blueprints for Royal Mail’s former Lexden Heath delivery office on hold until councillors have seen the site for themselves. Businessman Gezim Aliaj, who owns the building, wants to open a café with space for 38 diners at the site in London …

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Oxford MP criticises extremely disruptive postal delays

Anneliese Dodds, MP for Oxford East, is urging the responsible authority to “improve their delivery record” after figures appeared to indicate 2019/2020 was the last time the company met its target of delivering 91.5 per cent of all first-class mail by the next working day. A spokesman has responded saying he …

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Companies roundup: Tory tax cuts & Royal Mail results

Tax cuts, International Distributions Services (IDS) and Ithaca Energy (ITH) Rishi Sunak is preparing a £2.4bn tax cut for pensioners, in a bid to boost his difficult election campaign. The Tories said, if they win the election, they would increase the personal tax allowance for pensioners every year, so it rises in …

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Victorian Plumbing – sales flat, gross margin up

Free cash flow up by a third Increased proportion of own brand sales Victorian Plumbing (VIC) delivered flat half-year revenues on a like-for-like basis and a 2 per cent rise in completed orders through the period. That’s a reasonable enough outcome given where we are in the interest rate cycle, …

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