Royal Shakespeare Company is forced to end sponsorship deal with BP after striking school pupils threaten to boycott RSC over its ‘sickening’ ties to oil giant BP had sponsored the company’s £5 ticket scheme for 16-25 year-olds Young people had told the group the deal was putting a barrier between …
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Around 70 postal workers protested outside a Nottingham delivery office on Tuesday (October 1). The workers, who met outside Glaisdale Delivery Office, have vowed to fight for justice in response to the “unfair dismissal” of one of the workers. As well as the national ballot taking place, members at the …
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PRINCE William is visiting Oxford tomorrow to open a university college’s new building – but he is far from the only royal to take an interest in the city in recent years. The Duke of Cambridge will visit Oxford on Thursday, October 3, to officially open Keble College’s new graduate building, the …
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The Phone-paid Services Authority has appointed Mark Thomson to its Board of Directors. Thomson is currently Director General for Her Majesty’s Passport Office, UK Visas and Immigration and sits as an executive member on the Home Office Board. His three-year term will begin on 1st January 2020. David Edmonds CBE, Chairman …
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A NEW retirement home in Abingdon will celebrate the town’s link with Prince Albert. Churchill Living’s development of 39 one and two bedroom apartments has been named as Albert Lodge, in reference to the nearby Albert Park and its monument to Queen Victoria’s husband,which has stood near the heart of …
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DAVE Lewis, the boss of Tesco, is leaving the supermarket giant after five years, declaring its turnaround complete. He is one of three top bosses on the move in the business world. City veteran Martin Gilbert is to leave Standard Life Aberdeen after nearly four decades with the business, while …
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Royal Mail staff in Merseyside stormed out on strike today over claims a manager made a “racist” comment to a Muslim worker. Employees at the Bootle and Seaforth delivery office set up a picket line outside their headquarters on Trinity Industrial Estate in Bootle. It follows an incident this morning, …
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A group of more than 100 women high up in UK business and the government have launched a campaign, #MeTooPay, for equal pay in the workplace. The campaign calls for “radical and rapid action,” and has set up a website that it hopes will become a hub for news, advice, …
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A Royal Mail investigation into bullying and harassment at a Devon delivery office continues. Postal workers at the Ivybridge office went out on strike “in support of a colleague” after an alleged “bullying” incident with management back in July this year. At the time, Royal Mail confirmed that it had …
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A young Liverpool doctor has spoken of the ‘inhumane’ way she was ordered to leave the country after living here for more than 13 years. Dr Mu-Chun Chiang, 27, is a fully qualified NHS doctor who lives in Liverpool City Centre and is currently working at Aintree Hospital while she …
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