Your three-minute digest – The Times

Evening Standard Great Portland's Royal Mail deal fuels row over sell-offEvening StandardGreat Portland Estates today won planning permission for what the City is calling its most profitable project to date: a £500 million redevelopment of a Royal Mail sorting office that fuelled criticism over the privatised postal group's property … More: continued here

[ad_1] John Lewis is understood to be considering a fresh round of store closures, underscoring the toll that the pandemic is taking on Britain’s deserted high streets. The 156-year-old retailer is understood to be reconsidering the scale of its national network of branches, less than eight months after it announced the closure of eight stores…

The Sun Postman's Facebook jibe at pet owner after Royal Mail CANCELLED her letters because her 'angry' cat 'cut his finger …The SunA POSTMAN has hit out at a cat owner on Facebook after she laughed about the Royal Mail not delivering to her house because of her “angry” moggy. Cat lover Becky Taylor was…