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Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com  By AYAAT YASSIN-KASSAB Published: 11:42 EDT, 15 September 2025 | Updated: 11:44 EDT, 15 September 2025 Jason Manford has been confirmed as the host of the Royal Variety Performance – as Amanda Holden and Alan Carr stand down from the role. The 44-year-old …

Britain’s iconic red postboxes still have some life in them yet, as Royal Mail begins to rollout new ‘postboxes of the future’. Around 3,500 of the new solar-powered postboxes are set to be rolled out across the UK. The new designs feature a digitally activated drop-down drawer which will enable …

Royal Mail failed to deliver one in four first-class letters on time in the months after it was taken over by the Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, it has been reported.  The postal service, which is already under scrutiny after it increased the cost of a first-class stamp to £1.70 in April, is …

Ofcom opened an investigation into BT after receiving information it may have failed to provide required documents to customers (BT Group/PA) (PA Media) BT has refunded £18 million to customers after Ofcom ruled it did not give them enough information about their contracts. The regulator fined BT £2.8 million last …

British media giant Sky is trying to appeal a regulatory ruling obliged it to notify customers their contract with the telecoms giant was coming to an end. Ofcom, the communications regulator, opened a probe into Sky in 2020 and found in 2022 that the media giant breached obligations to provide …

Major changes to Royal Mail’s delivery times and targets have come into effect as regulator Ofcom looks to cut costs and modernise the service. From today, Royal Mail can start delivering second-class letters on alternate weekdays, instead of six days a week. The target to deliver these letters will remain …

Major changes to Royal Mail’s delivery times and targets have come into effect as regulator Ofcom looks to cut costs and modernise the service. From today, Royal Mail can start delivering second-class letters on alternate weekdays, instead of six days a week. The target to deliver these letters will remain …

Royal Mail will not post second-class letters on Saturdays from today (July 28), meaning this week will be the first Saturday that homeowners won’t receive this type of post. Instead, second-class letters will be posted every other weekday going forward. Regulator Ofcom said it had given the green light to …

Regulator Ofcom has confirmed that UK’s Royal Mail can scrap Saturday delivery of Second Class letters, reducing this service to alternate weekdays. The changes will take effect from July 28. Under the guise of “USO reform”, Ofcom’s measures will downgrade the Universal Service Obligation, which mandates six-day-a-week letter deliveries to …

Sarah Lee, director of policy at the Countryside Alliance, said postal service changes could leave rural communities at a disadvantage 13 July 2025 • 4 min read Source link