PrettyLittleThing introduces charges for returns

As of 3 June, the online fashion retailer began charging customers for returns. The amount will be subtracted from a customer’s refund or is to be paid directly if customers opt for alternative couriers such as Evri, Royal Mail and Inpost. It follows retailers such as Zara, which started charging …

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Spellbinding concert at the Royal Albert Hall for the 80th anniversary of D-Day featured celebrities including Katherine Jenkins and Davina McCall but six former serviceman guests were the real stars

‘Let’s just hope we don’t get another war like that again.’  Those were the words of 104-year-old Percy Chafer, who served as a Gunner with the 7th Armoured Division and landed on Sword Beach 80 years ago on D-Day.  ‘Because, I tell you what,’ he continued with a smirk, ‘I …

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Queen Máxima of the Netherlands looks graceful in royal blue as she pays her respects in Normandy on the 80th anniversary of D-Day

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands has joined veterans in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the Second World War D-Day landings. The Dutch royal, 53, joined international leaders and other royals at the D-Day Anniversary International Ceremony at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France. Accompanied by her husband King Willem-Alexander, 57, she …

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Mystery Post Office software developer revealed in 1995 Horizon project document

As former subpostmasters await answers from a government-backed investigation into the Post Office Capture software system, a 27-year-old Horizon project document answers a critical question. Since the airing of ITV’s drama about the long-running Post Office Horizon scandal, former subpostmasters who had suffered similar problems with the Capture software that pre-dated …

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Royal Mail bidders, paradise islands and Prague properties: questions asked over Daniel Křetínský’s business links | Royal Mail

On Prague’s exclusive Pařížská Street sits a nondescript brown door. Lodged between a designer clothing shop and a luxury luggage store, it is the gateway into a discreet sixth-floor office from where one of the Czech Republic’s richest people runs his empire. There is nothing overly ostentatious about the entrance, …

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New stamps issued featuring images of popular dog breeds

Royal Mail’s new Corgi stamp Royal Mail is issuing a new set of stamps featuring images of some of the nation’s favourite dog breeds including a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. The stamps show a Dalmatian, Jack Russell-type terrier, Labrador Retriever, Border Collie, whippet, Siberian Husky, Chihuahua, cocker spaniel, Pembroke Welsh Corgi …

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