The Royal Mail has broken its silence after being accused of stopping deliveries and post on streets and roads where dogs bark. The Royal Mail is stopping delivering to a street in Shropshire “because of barking dogs” say furious locals. Royal Mail has stopped delivering mail to a street of …
Read More »Army veteran Richard Lee protests at Downing Street seeking justice for daughter missing since 1981
An army veteran whose daughter went missing more than 40 years ago has attempted to hand back his military medals at Downing Street in a protest against failings in the police investigation. Richard Lee’s daughter Katrice disappeared near a British Army base in Paderborn, Germany, on November 28 1981 – …
Read More »Meet the Liberal Democrat candidate battling for the Devon South West seat
The historically safe Conservative seat of Devon South West will, for the first time since being won by Gary Streeter in 1997, be up for grabs – and Julian Brazil intends to secure it for the Lib Dems. He resides in the village of East Prawle in the constituency South …
Read More »Anonymous creator of Beeston postbox topper accused of intimidating trans people
A postbox topper in a Nottinghamshire town has been deemed an “unacceptable act of intimidation” by local councillors. The knitted topper, which was placed on a Royal Mail box in Beeston on Saturday, June 1, was swiftly removed by locals who saw its “woman adult female” stitching as a pointed …
Read More »The beautiful corner of Gloucestershire where poets who found fame gathered
If you see the words “daffodil” and “poetry” in the same sentence you might well think of William Wordsworth wandering about the Like District with his sister Dorothy and being confronted by a trumpeting host of golden blossoms. But if you’ve been to a daffodil weekend in Dymock, or its …
Read More »Royal Mail ‘could not go on as it did’ says former boss backing takeover
Former Royal Mail boss Rico Back has thrown his weight behind Daniel Křetínský’s bid to take over the business, claiming the troubled postal giant “cannot go on like it did”. Mr Back, who was chief executive of Royal Mail from 2018 to 2020, told The Telegraph that the deal would …
Read More »Czech Sphinx Daniel Kretinsky warns of Royal Mail ‘death spiral’ over six-days-a-week post… as results show the company is losing £1million a day
By Leah Montebello, Business Reporter Published: 19:37 EDT, 31 May 2024 | Updated: 19:53 EDT, 31 May 2024 Royal Mail is facing a ‘death spiral’ over its obligation to deliver post six days a week, according to would-be owner Daniel Kretinsky. The billionaire – nicknamed the Czech Sphinx – described …
Read More »Who is Daniel Kretinsky, the Czech billionaire trying to buy Royal Mail? | Evening Standard
The board of Royal Mail's parent company has accepted a £3.57 billion offer to buy the group from Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky. If the deal goes … Source link
Read More »Linklaters advises on £2.85bn financing for recommended offer for IDS plc (Royal Mail) | Deal | About Us
Linklaters has advised BNP Paribas, Citibank, Societe Generale and UniCredit as mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners on the £2.85bn financing for the recommended cash offer by strategic investor EP Corporate Group, a.s. for International Distributions Services plc (IDS), valuing IDS’s share capital at c.£3.5bn and implying an enterprise value of …
Read More »Hunt vows to ‘protect what people want from Royal Mail’ in £3.6bn takeover
Mr Kretinsky, who is already the largest shareholder in Royal Mail through his company EP Group, has pledged not to split the group’s lucrative parcels business, GLS, from its struggling letters business. Under terms set out in his offer, this undertaking would be valid for three years after the deal …
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