[ad_1] Royal Mail Group (LSE: RMG) shareholders have had a seriously volatile ride in 2020. By early April, the Royal Mail share price had lost around 45% of its value. That was way worse then the FTSE 100 itself, which fell by about a third in the Covid-19 pandemic. But since that low point, Royal…
[ad_1] Lecturers won their strike in 2017 (Pic: Duncan Brown) Scottish FE lecturers in the EIS-FELA union are going into dispute over attempts by management to replace teaching with training. This will force lecturers on to instructor and assessor contracts. At Forth Valley College staff were selected at random and told that their jobs were…
[ad_1] A coronavirus outbreak at a Greater Manchester Royal Mail sorting office has left posties at recovering at home. In the last week alone, ‘a number of employees’ at the Bury Delivery Office in Wellington Street tested positive for the virus and were sent home to recuperate, Royal Mail has revealed. Since the positive tests,…
[ad_1] Union officials are now calling on Royal Mail to re-instate the worker to avoid industrial action. CWU union members voted 87.8% in favour of strike action over the sacking of their colleague. The postman, who has worked several years for the business with no previous disciplinary record, was fired in July – action which,…
[ad_1] By Alexandra Warren Residents are complaining that for the past six months post has been taking much longer to arrive than usual. Since lockdown began in March, many people in in SE22 postcode have reported letters and packages delivered by Royal Mail have been delayed – sometimes for weeks at a time. Homes and…
[ad_1] Isolation cheats, vaccine problems and starving rats are among the stories leading the papers at the start of the week. The Times leads with proposals for a “total social lockdown” in northern Britain as the country wrestles with a second wave of Covid-19. The Times 28/9/20Play it with flowers: The Scots Guards perform for the…
[ad_1] Large stockpiles in place for items such as face masks, visors and gowns Almost three quarters of expected demand for PPE to be met by UK manufacturers from December Health and social care workers treating COVID-19 patients have access to an uninterrupted supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), the Government has confirmed today. Four-month…
[ad_1] Image: E1 World Electric Powerboat Series Alejandro Agag, founder of both the Formula E and Extreme E championships, has just announced the formation of an all-electric powerboat league called the E1 World Electric Powerboat Series. Once again, the whole goal of the series is to draw attention to the environmental concerns that impact marine…
[ad_1] Donald Trump is not my favourite person. But I couldn’t help feeling a certain grudging admiration for the old dunderhead last week. Asked what he thought of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s decision to interfere in the US presidential election, he just gave a wry smile and said: ‘I wish a lot of…
[ad_1] Sir David Attenborough has given Prince George a fossilised giant shark’s tooth to mark their first meeting at Kensington Palace, after discovering the young royal was a ‘massive fan’. The young prince, seven, was photographed looking intrigued as he handled the fossilised tooth from an extinct Carcharocles megalodon – one of the most feared predators…