[ad_1] Security outsourcing firm G4S looks set to be taken over by Allied Universal Security Services, after rival Canadian suitor GardaWorld said it would not be increasing its existing bid to trump the US firm’s £3.8bn offer. G4S, which operates services including running four British prisons and managing 21 UK Covid-19 test centres, saw its…
[ad_1] Royal Mail complaints have more than doubled in the past three months according to a consumer service, as the problems with delivery blackspots persist. Scores of people have complained that their post has taken too long to arrive, with a spike over Christmas. Resolver, the independent consumer service, received 2,653 complaints about Royal Mail…
[ad_1] Rishi Sunak’s March budget will be a fresh Covid rescue package that will defer plans for significant tax increases as the chancellor throws his weight behind a cautious approach to reopening the economy, government sources have confirmed. Boris Johnson signalled on Wednesday that the government would take a slow path towards reopening hospitality, which…
[ad_1] Teachers, schoolchildren and their families could be tested for coronavirus twice a week under a plan for mass rapid testing that has been touted as key to safely easing England’s lockdown, reports claim. As many as 400,000 rapid lateral flow tests will be sent to homes every day, supported by a public information campaign…
[ad_1] Sir Philip Green’s fashion empire Arcadia is no more, with its famous brands, including Topshop, carved up by online retailers leaving behind a ghost chain of 500 shops. The sale to Boohoo of its last three high street names – Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton – was confirmed this week. It completed the dismantling…
[ad_1] Loved up couples have gone all sentimental this year sending rude Valentine’s Day cards down in popularity, a leading card seller said. Moonpig, the online seller, said it has sold the highest proportion of sentimental cards since 2015 and there has been a 10 per cent swing toward the genre from the cheekier end…
[ad_1] The Royal Mail has apologised after a postman left a pensioner lying in the snow because he was too “knackered” to help. Patricia Stewart, who suffers from osteoporosis, slipped and banged her head on Wednesday as she bent over to pick up two parcels left on the doorstep of her home in Bainsford, near…
[ad_1] Postal workers could be paid to check up on elderly people during their rounds under new plans proposed by union members. Delivering prescriptions could also become the responsibility of Royal Mail staff under measures designed to widen their duties and create additional revenues. The idea has been put forward by the Communication Workers Union (CWU),…
[ad_1] Postal workers could be utilised to check on the wellbeing of the elderly and to deliver essential items, such as prescriptions, a trades union has suggested. The Communication Workers Union is understood to have proposed the idea to the loss-making Royal Mail to build on its claim “we own trust on the doorstep,” according…
[ad_1] Town halls have been ordered to consult more with local people after an outcry in The Telegraph over the way some roads have been shut and replaced with cycle lanes. Grant Shapps admitted some local authorities had “got it wrong” and “had not thought through” plans before shutting roads to motorists. The Transport Secretary…