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Capita, the outsourcing specialist and government contractor, has revealed that customer, supplier or colleague data may have been accessed during a cyber attack in March. The company, which announced earlier this month that it had been targeted, said its investigations had identified that the attack on its systems first took …

Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have reached an agreement in principle following a long-running dispute over pay and employment terms. In a joint statement with Royal Mail, CWU confirmed the agreement will now be considered by the executive of the union before it goes before the membership. …

Do you shop at Sainsbury’s? Impacted by the cost of living crisis? Then you are in luck. The supermarket is yassifying its Nectar card scheme meaning there will soon be lower prices on more than 300 items in store. In a move that will rival Tesco’s Clubcard scheme, the supermarket …

Postal workers have picked up on the undeniable stench of a sellout hanging over the closed-door talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and are up in arms. CWU General Secretary Dave Ward on Thursday March 2 stated at an online meeting with postal workers that a …

The Royal Mail issued the final set of stamps featuring the late British Queen Elizabeth II’s silhouette. They were released on Tuesday (February 28) to commemorate 100 years of the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive. This comes as the future commemorative stamps will soon appear with a silhouette of King Charles …

Today, Sky Media announces that the Sky Zero Footprint Fund finalist, Royal Mail, will unveil its ‘Footprints’ advertising campaign – encouraging UK consumers to send their parcels greener.  Using the £250,000 media value that Royal Mail won from the Sky Zero Footprint Fund in 2022, its TV campaign will run from …

Official figures indicated that between the months of June and December last year, the number of lost days was recorded at 2,471,000, the highest since 1989. Royal Mail workers protest as members strike over pay and conditions, in London. Credit: Reuters British media reported on Tuesday that the UK registered …

Emma Corrin has described their West End production of Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando as a “celebration of queer joy”. The actor, who played Diana, Princess of Wales in The Crown, is currently starring as the titular character at the Garrick Theatre, directed by Michael Grandage. Corrin, who identifies as non-binary …

Significant outages in critical infrastructure services caused by cyberattacks are thankfully very rare. That’s why incidents such as Colonial Pipeline achieve significant press and media attention and top-level political engagement: they have rarity value. Computer code on a screen with a skull representing a computer virus / malware attack. getty …

A cyber attack against the UK postal service Royal Mail which saw the company request that customers stop sending mail abroad via its services has been linked to Russian hackers. Royal Mail informed the public of the cyber attack on January 11, saying it had caused “severe disruption” to the …