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SIR – Royal Mail's plan in the face of dwindling business involves charging more and providing less. That should surely fix the problem. Simon Watson Source link

NEW LOCKDOWN RULES FOR ENGLAND FROM MONDAY  Max social gatherings SIX PEOPLE Applies indoors and outdoors Applies in private homes Applies in pubs and restaurants Does NOT apply to schools or workplaces Does NOT apply to weddings, funerals, team sport Does NOT apply if household bubbles are bigger than six …

Royal Mail could stop delivering Saturday letters as it reveals it has delivered 1.1 billion fewer letters year-on-year The UK delivery service has faced resistance over plans to deliver fewer letters Royal Mail saw a drop of 1.1 billion letters year-on-year in five months to August  It could scrap its …

A calendar filled with lockdown artwork has been launched to help raise funds for a little boy living with an incurable muscle wasting illness. Five-year-old Digby Donnelly from Deal was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) in 2017, aged two. Artist Bryony Sadler, Digby Donnelly and mum Lisa Donnelly celebrate …

Three Royal Mail staff have tested positive for coronavirus at Medway Mail Centre. The state-of-the-art mail sorting centre in Rochester has since been subject to an ‘enhanced clean’, according to bosses. Colleagues have been notified if they were exposed to the Covid-19-positive staff members in the Knight Road depot, and …

Royal Mail has carried out enhanced cleaning at the Medway Mail Centre in Strood, after three staff members tested positive for coronavirus. Yesterday KentOnline received information from an anonymous source stating three people at the site had been confirmed as having the virus “within the last three days”, and that …

Patients at Britain’s best-known children’s hospital can expect faster treatment thanks to a major donation by Mail Force – one which comes with a royal seal of approval. Great Ormond Street will receive £300,000 of a pioneering new Covid-19 testing equipment. This will provide rapid diagnosis for children, families and medical …

Virgin Atlantic has confirmed it could axe a further 1,150 jobs from across the company taking the total number of job losses to 4,700 during the coronavirus crisis. The company has said they are ‘working closely with unions Unite and BALPA’ and that a company-wide consultation period of 45 days …

At least seven schools in England have sent pupils home to self-isolate due to students catching coronavirus within days of the start of term.  Primary and secondary schools in Greater Manchester, Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Lancashire and Buckinghamshire have all been stricken by the virus – seven sending pupils home and another …

An NHS worker who admitted she did ‘f*** all’ during the pandemic and claimed coronavirus was a ‘load of b******s’ is now being investigated.  Care UK employee Louise Hampton, who yesterday rallied in London with 10,000 other anti-lockdown protesters, said that ‘our service was dead’ in a Facebook video post. ‘This …