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R oyal Mail’s parent firm has said it faces no further action months after ministers said they would launch a national security probe into the company. International Distributions Services (IDS), which was renamed from Royal Mail Group earlier this year, had faced the potential intervention after the firm’s largest shareholder, …

Marketreach is the direct mail research arm of Royal Mail. Liam Kay investigates how it is using insight for the benefit of the mail industry. How do you feel when an envelope drops through your letterbox? Joy? Fear? Frustration? Annoyance? Excitement? Is it a case of reaching for the bin …

H undreds of people braved the rain in Edinburgh on Saturday morning to show their support for rail and postal workers taking strike action. Aslef and the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) voted “resoundingly” to take industrial action against the companies they say have failed to give workers a …

R oyal Mail workers will mount picket lines outside Royal Mail delivery and sorting offices again on Saturday in a continuing dispute over pay and conditions. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) walked out on a 48-hour strike on Friday, hitting deliveries of post across the country. Talks between …

The Red Ensign at the stern of Scillonian III hangs limply at half-mast as she chugs out past Land’s End into the Atlantic. It is a hot, windless, sun-kissed September morning. We are heading for the Scillies. The United Kingdom is burying its Queen today. At Westminster Abbey, 290 miles …

B usinesses can now provide skilled agency workers to plug staffing gaps caused by strike action under changes to the law coming into force on Thursday, the Government has announced. Ministers said they have worked at speed to repeal trade union laws that restrict employment businesses from providing temporary agency …

Britain’s greatest long distance runner has said he was trafficked into the UK when he was around eight or nine (top image) and spent his early years as a domestic slave for a woman he had never met before. In a BBC documentary (left), The Real Mo Farah, which will …

An exhibit from the third floor of the Royal BC Museum in Victoria on Dec. 29, 2021.JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press Premier John Horgan has halted an ambitious but costly and controversial plan to shut down the Royal BC Museum and rebuild a new facility over the next eight years, acknowledging …

An exhibit from the third floor of the Royal BC Museum.JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press The B.C. government has presented a business case for a new Royal BC Museum, which shows the $789.5-million cost of building a new museum on the current site in Victoria would be lower than repairing or …

That will take total government borrowing to £2.3 trillion. The interest payments on the stock of government debt will be about £7.5 billion, which takes the total for the year to April to £71.5 billion. It is rising due to increases in RPI inflation, to which index-linked gilts are pegged. …