Elton John stamp set from Royal Mail issued Sept. 3

By Michael Baadke Sir Elton John, the celebrated rock musician, songwriter, philanthropist and activist, has been honored on a new set of stamps from Royal Mail, the postal authority of Great Britain. The set of 12 stamps was issued Sept. 3. Eight nondenominated first-class stamps show eight different Elton John …

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DS Smith introduces coffee cup recycling scheme

Market conditions are slow for recovered paper in Europe. Jean-Luc Petithuguenin, founder and CEO Paris-based Paprec and paper division chairman of the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), Brussels, says packaging demand was strong last year, but he says that has calmed down. He says prices for recovered paper decreased steadily …

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Abolish the Lords, share power between our nations

I READ a sentence in an article in the Morning Star that helped explain why our constitution is in such a mess. Nathan Akehurst, writing about the current constitutional wrangle, said: “There is a creaking old system to which democracy is a recent add-on.” Britain did not have a “constitutional moment” …

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