The Queen has knighted her top royal physician in a personal investiture at Windsor Castle. The 95-year-old monarch conferred the accolade on Professor Sir Huw Thomas, who is Head of the Medical Household and Physician to the Queen, in a private ceremony on Tuesday. Concern for the health of the …
Read More »Parcel Firms Fail To Deliver In New League Table: Hermes And Yodel Named As Worst Performing Firms
Parcel firms have been slammed by customers with Hermes and Yodel performing the worst in a new league table released by Citizens Advice. The table, which compares top parcel firms against criteria such as customer service, problems and accessibility, found that no delivery company received more than three out of …
Read More »The St. Helena arrives in the UK as Extreme E prepares for season finale in Dorset
23.11.2021: Extreme Es floating centrepiece, the St. Helena, has today arrived into the UK Dorset port of Poole in preparation for the championships final event of its inaugural season the Jurassic X-Prix – on 18-19 December 2021. Extreme E’s floating centrepiece, the St. Helena, …
Read More »Oxfordshire man fined thousands for breaching Covid-19 rules
A MAN has been fined nearly £2,000 after failing to self-isolate on his return from Romania. Ioan Buta, of Slugworth Lane, Abingdon, appeared at Oxford Magistrates’ Court after he was caught not out of quarnatine in March. Court documents said he continued to leave his house on a daily basis. His actions …
Read More »‘We Didn’t Open Our Mail for a Month’
Tony Goldwyn remembers the 2001 anthrax scare all too well. While promoting his upcoming National Geographic series The Hot Zone: Anthrax on People (The TV Show!), Goldwyn, 61, recalled the biological attack that followed 9/11. The plot killed five Americans and sickened 17 others. “I remember it vividly,” Goldwyn told …
Read More »British expats claim they were overcharged for UK letters in Spain post-Brexit | Travel News | Travel
Commercial letters are taxed when they come into the EU from a non-EU country, including the UK. However, personal letters are exempt from VAT taxation. Correos is a state-owned company, similar to Royal Mail, in Spain which is responsible for delivering parcels and letters. British expats have claimed the company …
Read More »PEAK 2021 Data points to a very mobile Christmas worldwide – Peak
Mobile Christmas shopping is now the norm (Image: AdobeStock) This Peak season and Christmas is set to be one dominated by mobile commerce if the figures on app use over the rest of the year is anything to go by. Data from mobile marketing analytics platform Adjust in the US …
Read More »How AR will affect the future of work
There is a fundamental gap between the vast amount of digital data we have access to and the real world in which we use it. While our reality is three-dimensional, the wealth of information we currently have to guide our decisions and actions is stuck on two-dimensional pages and displays. …
Read More »Amazon, Royal Mail, Hermes, DPD: What delivery company should you use?
Parcel companies including Amazon, DPD and Hermes have been ranked in a new league table – with none coming off well. Citizens Advice is warning urgent action is needed across the parcel delivery industry after its first annual parcel company league table found consistent problems across the sector. The league …
Read More »British Land investing in spaces with urban logistics potential
23 November 2021 Transport / Logistics Services FTSE-100 listed property owners British Land has announced it is to buy and convert urban car parks and empty retail centres into online shopping and quick commerce (q-commerce) delivery hubs. According to British Land, the total value of its pipeline of urban logistics properties …
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