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Royal Mail has started work on a super-sized parcel hub – with the capacity to one day process more than a million items a day. The 840,000 sq ft Midlands parcel hub will be its biggest yet, covering an area the size of more than 10 football pitches and reflecting …

Bank buildings at Toronto’s financial district on Sept. 3, 2020. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail Canada’s banking regulator will not yet consider lifting restrictions on banks’ dividends and share buybacks introduced at the start of the pandemic, even though the largest lenders continue to amass growing stockpiles of surplus capital. …

Bradford needs to plan for an economic recovery that will leave the district in better shape than it was before the Covid pandemic, according to a body set up to help the city bounce back from the pandemic. Professor Zahir Irani, deputy vice chancellor of Bradford University and chair of …

You don’t become Dawn French’s go-to recording studio by accident but a Plymouth business can boast of being just that after the TV star chose it twice in a year. Since 1998 Fresh Air studios has been recording the voices of the famous and the familiar at its Stonehouse base …

Cineworld, one of the world’s largest cinema chains and owner of the multiscreen on Parnell Street in Dublin, is looking at a company voluntary arrangement, an insolvency process used in the UK to cut costs, as part of its talks with lenders to gain access to capital, the Financial Times has …

UK extends wage support scheme until March amid new lockdown … the likes of British Airways, Royal Mail and Rolls-Royce all laying off thousands. Source link

From parcel delivery drivers to supermarket supervisors – there are several key worker roles to be recruited for in the run up to Christmas. With furlough, redundancies and self-employed businesses forced to close for a second time this year, there are a number of people out of work and looking …

The University of Bristol’s new Temple Quarter campus could be delayed by up to five years without £150million of government help, an MP told Parliament. The warning came as four cross-party local MPs put their case directly to the housing minister for huge amounts of Whitehall cash for the city’s …

Packing up the current Sorting Office and moving it to the former bus depot at Masbrough could give Rotherham Council the chance to lead on the regeneration of the Sheffield Road and Westgate areas of the town centre. The idea is in a new Town Investment Plan (TIP) which focuses …