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From a standing start roughly three years ago, Openreach’s full fibre network now reaches 9m homes and businesses across the UK, while the pace of engineering is expected to ramp up from 2.6m premises last year to more than 3m this year, and again in 2023. But here’s the bit …

In this dawn of the reign of King Charles III, while the country waits excitedly for new postage stamps with the King’s head on them, the Royal Mail appears to have other priorities. In its obsession with tracking and de-romanticising everything, it is imposing new stamps on us which manage …

At times, the impression is that the recent wave of damaging strikes, not just at the Royal Mail, but also BT, the railways, the country’s ports, and other vital parts of the economy has been driven more by a desire among hard-left union barons to score points against a Tory …

Whatever the other glories of the second Elizabethan age, it included a period in the 1960s and 1970s when British art entered a black hole and stayed there. There were exceptions: Lucian Freud, Henry Moore and David Gentleman, in the visual arts; the odd good feature film, mostly by Lindsay …

First, we need to rip up the rules that were put in place when it was privatised that protect the unions. The Royal Mail is ridiculously over-manned, and riddled with restrictive practices.  Of course, we all sympathise with the posties who want a pay rise that matches inflation, and the …

This is a significant escalation in the company’s efforts to push through reform. It is the equivalent of holding the feet of workers to the flames, a message of defiance that says: “If you insist on standing in the way of change then we will set the best part of …

Summer nights are for sweltering in in the Royal Albert Hall, at what the … Royal Mail union offered £28.50 a week for staff to push one button. Source link

Has a company treated you unfairly? Our Consumer Champion is available to help. For how to contact her click here.   In 2019 I secured a Glastonbury ticket, which has been carried over to this year because of the pandemic. I paid £280 and waited for it to arrive, but it never …

It was World Radio Day on Sunday. Not that there was much fanfare. A fleeting mention on Broadcasting House and a documentary, about tiny community radio stations in far flung places, on the World Service. That was about it. This year’s theme was “Radio and Trust”, in recognition of a …

ALEX BRUMMER: LV turning its back on Royal London is one of the most farcical boardroom U-turns in living memory By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00, 9 February 2022 | Updated: 22:00, 9 February 2022 The reasoning behind the decision of Liverpool Victoria to pull out of …