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Delegates at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s (PLSA) annual conference in Liverpool heard experts discuss the role of trustees across the industry. Harus Rai, managing director at Capital Cranfield and chair of the Association of Professional Pension Trustees, said the landscape for trustees had improved vastly since the Maxwell …

Thursday, 26 September 2024 09:55 Isle of Man Post Office says ferry cancellations will mean delays to off-Island mail. The Steam Packet company cancelled a series of Manxman crossings today and yesterday because of bad weather. The post office says no mail left the Island this morning, and parcels and …

Heritage Open Days (HODs) returns this September with thousands of free events and experiences in places that are usually closed to the public. From historic houses to factories, museums to music halls, formal gardens to graveyards, places and spaces will again open for free this autumn. Across the country, thousands …

Katie Price has explained why she failed to appear in court for a bankruptcy hearing – resulting in a warrant for her arrest. The former glamour model insisted she was “not running from matters” and posted a statement on Instagram saying she could not attend because she was filming abroad. On Tuesday, …

Taylor Swift is getting her own exhibition at the V&A Museum in London this summer. The show – titled Taylor Swift: Songbook Trail – will feature costumes, awards and items from her childhood – with many on display for the first time. The temporary exhibition will be made up of …

Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, will next week meet the Czech tycoon who is on the verge of becoming the first foreign owner of Royal Mail in its 500-year history. Sky News has learnt that Ms Badenoch will hold talks with Daniel Kretinsky after his investment company, EP Group, struck …

A former senior executive at the Post Office was told by auditors the Horizon IT system was “a real risk”, four years before sub-postmaster prosecutions stopped. Post Office’s auditors Ernst and Young (now called EY) warned Alice Perkins, the company chair in 2011, that the accountancy software “is a real …

The commitments offered by the Czech tycoon seeking to buy Royal Mail’s parent firm do not go far enough, according to the union leader representing its 112,000 UK frontline workers. Communication Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Dave Ward made his remarks following talks with representatives of Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group. …

A disabled young mother fears that she is stuck in emergency housing months after she hoped to have been moved on to a more suitable longer-term property. Zoe McBride, 28, who suffers from chronic back problems and has a 10-month-old baby, said that families had come and gone from the …

At least 18 people have been killed and hundreds are injured after powerful storms left a trail of destruction as they swept across parts of the central United States. The storms, which began on Saturday evening local time and continued into Sunday, inflicted their worst damage in a region spanning …