The owner of Royal Mail has asked the industry regulator to let it reduce deliveries of second-class letters to just two or three days a…
View More Royal Mail owner proposes second-class post deliveries every other weekdayCategory: personal finance & money management
Nationwide TV ads starring Dominic West banned as misleading
Adverts featuring the actor Dominic West as a sneering bank manager will be pulled from TV in their current form after the advertising watchdog ruled…
View More Nationwide TV ads starring Dominic West banned as misleading‘It was built for 80 vehicles. We’re expecting six’: the big Brexit border posts that may never be fully used
“It’s a monumental white elephant, just painted black,” says Gerald Vernon-Jackson, Portsmouth city council’s cabinet member for transport, standing outside the £23m warehouse, which was…
View More ‘It was built for 80 vehicles. We’re expecting six’: the big Brexit border posts that may never be fully used‘From another galaxy’: Hunt makes few friends in Surrey town with £100k remarks
“I felt like I must be from another galaxy when I heard it,” Merve Topaloğlu says of the chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s suggestion that collecting £100,000…
View More ‘From another galaxy’: Hunt makes few friends in Surrey town with £100k remarksSellafield’s head of information security to step down
A former Royal Air Force officer who has led Sellafield’s information security for more than a decade is to leave the vast nuclear waste site…
View More Sellafield’s head of information security to step down‘You’ve got to be joking’: Mandelson dismisses prospect of UK rejoining EU
Peter Mandelson has dismissed the prospect of an incoming Labour government taking Britain back into the EU, saying “you’ve got to be joking” that Brussels…
View More ‘You’ve got to be joking’: Mandelson dismisses prospect of UK rejoining EUAI ‘apocalypse’ could take away almost 8m jobs in UK, says report
Almost 8 million UK jobs could be lost to artificial intelligence in a “jobs apocalypse”, according to a report warning that women, younger workers and…
View More AI ‘apocalypse’ could take away almost 8m jobs in UK, says reportShallow roots: can UK vertical farms keep growing as foreign rivals shrivel?
Fifteen layers of trays, brimming with lettuces, salad leaves, basil and other herbs are growing underneath rows of multicoloured LED lights, stacked one above the…
View More Shallow roots: can UK vertical farms keep growing as foreign rivals shrivel?Longest sustained rise in people too sick to work since 1990s, says thinktank
Britain is going through the longest sustained rise in the number of working-age adults who are too sick to work since the 1990s, according to…
View More Longest sustained rise in people too sick to work since 1990s, says thinktankUS accuses Apple of monopolizing smartphone market in sweeping lawsuit
The US government on Thursday filed a sprawling antitrust case against Apple, alleging that the tech giant has illegally prevented competition by restricting access to…
View More US accuses Apple of monopolizing smartphone market in sweeping lawsuit