[ad_1] At the end of September, Njord Partners, an investment firm that specialises in buying up businesses in financial distress, announced its “acquisition of Red Funnel”. Jakob Kjellberg, Njord’s founding partner, pledged to restore the company’s “financial health”. But newly published accounts for one of the Red Funnel Group companies, the impressively titled Southampton, Isle…
[ad_1] Royal Mail has rolled out six solar-powered ‘postboxes of the future’ in Exeter. The new postboxes have been put in place as the company continues to find ways to make collecting, sending and returning more convenient. The new design allows customers to send and return labelled parcels – up to the size of a…
[ad_1] Publicans say government licensing reforms would not help them — and that they feel decision makers ‘have completely lost sight of why pubs exist’. Ministers have launched a consultation on licensing reform, which includes a proposal to axe the statutory requirement for alcohol licensing notices to be advertised in print local papers. If enacted,…
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[ad_1] An MP has called for urgent action to improve postal services after Royal Mail was fined £21 million. Chris Ward, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, made the call after Ofcom fined Royal Mail for failing to meet its delivery targets. The postal service was found to have breached its obligations to deliver letters…
[ad_1] The woodland is at Parish Poles, off Widney Lane, close to the Hillfield Nature Reserve A general view of woodland at Parish Poles, off Widney Lane, Solihull(Image: Bond Wolfe) Almost seven acres of woodland in Solihull is coming up for sale at auction with a guide price of just £5,000 plus. The woodland is…
[ad_1] ‘It’s just really frustrating as an artist to have put the work in and then be treated this way’ A number of artists have spoken to the M.E.N about not being paid for their performances at this year’s Manchester Pride(Image: Kenny Brown | Manchester Evening News) A number of artists who performed at this…
[ad_1] More people are being caught by speed cameras and they are not being allowed to take awareness courses The back of a road traffic speed camera A surge in drivers being caught by speed cameras has been blamed for a 12% increase in the number of penalty points added to licences last year. Figures…
[ad_1] By David Hartwig Great Britain’s Royal Mail celebrates the 90th anniversary of the board game Monopoly with a set of 10 stamps in an Oct. 16 issue. The stamps, presented in two horizontal se-tenant (side-by-side) strips of five, show different areas of a Monopoly board during gameplay. Each stamp is valued at the first-class…
[ad_1] The head of Royal Mail's main operation has quit in a … Mr Griffiths joined Royal Mail from GKN Automotive a year ago on a £500,000 salary. [ad_2] Source link