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London stocks had maintained gains by midday on Tuesday, having taken their opening cue from a positive close on Wall Street, with Royal Mail pacing the advance after a well-received update. The FTSE 100 was up 0.8% at 7,357.44, having slumped 2.6% on Monday amid growing tensions between Russia and …

Maybe it’s from our English forebears, whose Royal Mail Service was started in 1516, that our nation’s founders were inspired to establish the U.S. Post Office, which they did definitively by making sure it was part of our federal Constitution (Article II, Sec. 8, #7). Since then, the U.S. Postal …

A staff sickness crisis at the Royal Mail has hit deliveries for more than 250,000 homes across the country.  During one week in January it was reported that up to 15,000 employees – nine per cent of the workforce – were off sick, severely impacting on the postal service. There …

L ondon has been struck down by the Royal Mail delivery crisis – with one in three of the worst affected postcodes in the UK lying in the capital. Of the 56 worst-hit areas, 18 of them were in London due to 38 delivery offices struggling to cope with what …

Prince William declined to comment today as he was asked by a TV reporter whether he supported his disgraced uncle Prince Andrew while on his first joint engagement of the year with wife Kate. The Duke of Cambridge was leaving the Foundling Museum at Brunswick Square Gardens in London when …

Prince Andrew has finally been stripped of his honorary military titles, and of his royal patronages. He has also agreed to no longer to use the honorific HRH. The Queen has been extremely reluctant to wield the axe but, as her predecessor Henry VIII knew, monarchs sometimes need to use …

A special set of stamps is being issued to celebrate The Rolling Stones, Royal Mail has announced. The 12 stamps will be a tribute to the band, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, having been formed in London in 1962. Eight of the stamps will feature images from some …

All Kate Middleton ever wanted was ‘a house in the countryside, loads of kids, dogs and an AGA’ and had ‘no interest in being famous’, friend claims Kate Middleton had no interest in fame, a family  friend has claimed to the Sun Comes as the Duchess will turn 40 next …

‘Make way!’ Moment Queen’s Guardsman flattens child who stepped into his path at the Tower of London Young child is knocked to the ground by a member of the Queen’s Guard  The Guardsmen had been doing patrol when child stepped into their path  The incident took place during patrol at …

A royal Christmas proposal! London-based Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, 33, is set to wed British investment banker William Isvy after he popped the question with a diamond and sapphire ring Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, the granddaughter of King Albert II, has announced her engagement to William Isvy, a …