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Amazon cut a large part of its UK team working on drones in 2021, while mass redundancies at the company earlier this year also hit its Prime Air team. The project has faced delays and regulatory hurdles, while a number of its drones have crashed during field testing. However, Amazon …

“With an extensive and valuable property portfolio, we have an important role to play in ensuring it continues delivering value for the long term benefit of customers and Partners for generations to come.” John Lewis wants to build 10,000 rental homes by 2030 and wants 40pc of profits to come …

Royal Mail is a national disgrace. Margaret Wilson Ferndown, Dorset. Letters to the Editor. We accept letters by email and … Source link

SIR – You report (September 15) that the northern leg of HS2 “may be axed to save £35 billion”. It is time our politicians woke up and cancelled the whole sorry enterprise. Vast amounts of money have been spent, without any accountability – and for what? Charles PenfoldUlverston, Cumbria  SIR – …

SIR – I do wonder about the people running Royal Mail, and what business acumen they demonstrated to secure their roles (“Royal Mail adds Christmas and net zero surcharge to deliveries”, report, September 15). The company is clearly struggling amid the headwinds created by electronic communications and inflation. Sadly, however, …

Royal Mail is increasing the cost of posting letters and parcels for businesses over Christmas and imposing a net zero “green surcharge”.  In a move that risks increasing costs for shoppers, business account customers will be asked for an additional 5p or 10p “peak surcharge” for deliveries between November and …

However, superior returns may only arise in very old age, according to research commissioned by the Association for British Insurers, an industry trade body. Its model found that if a worker starts saving into a CDC scheme at the age of 30, by their 75th birthday they would have an …

Trade unions have reported the Government to the UN over “dreadful” new anti-strike laws. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has submitted a case to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the UN’s workers’ rights watchdog, protesting against the legislation to ensure minimum service levels during mass walkouts. Paul Nowak, the general …

SIR – Isabel Oakeshott is lucky that she has only been waiting a year for a local road to be fixed (“Feckless councils are ripping taxpayers off”, Comment, September 4).  In August 2020 we asked the authorities in Suffolk to install about 35 yards of double-yellow lines in a stretch of …

In a letter to the Business Select Committee in June, he wrote: “The ability to send and receive letters and parcels is important both socially and economically. This is particularly true for consumers who might be more vulnerable.” Ofcom will publish evidence later in the year on how demand is …