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Record high temperatures since early July are threatening the health and lives of workers, especially those forced to work in unsafe conditions. Berran Özen Kırmızıgül (42), a postal worker from the state-owned Turkish Post (PTT), was hospitalized on Monday after she collapsed due to sunstroke while delivering mail in the …

Postboxes in Oxfordshire were boarded up after congestion caused by road closures to create low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) meant postmen could no longer meet collection times. Royal Mail was forced to reduce services in Cowley and East Oxford after traffic was funnelled onto main roads making journey times markedly longer. …

There are a number of important rule changes set to come into force next month. Laws on things such as minimum and living wage will be altered from the end of this week with changes to Scotland’s Covid rules also set to come into force before the end of April. …

The 79-year-old is also the largest shareholder in Liberty Media, which bought Formula One from buy-out fund CVC for £6.4bn four years ago. Drivers and investors may have been forthcoming, but keeping Extreme E on track has still proven a prodigious task. Companies have been shielding their cash to protect …

As the post-mortems for the British Labour Party’s stunning defeat keep arriving, the most frequent explanation for its poor performance is its lack of a clear Brexit policy. Jeremy Corbyn’s personality, incompetence and anti-Semitism all are seen as lesser reasons for his failure to attract more voters. No doubt Brexit …

Extreme E, the new electric off-road racing series using motorsport to raise awareness of global environmental issues, has confirmed a five-round Season 1 calendar set to get underway in January 2021. Extreme E’s inaugural campaign will get underway with its Ocean leg on the shores of Lac Rose on the …

Labour’s plan to renationalise large chunks of the economy risks years of disruption that could delay Britain’s transition to a low-carbon economy, a thinktank has said. The Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that taking water, energy companies, the Royal Mail and railways under state control would be costly, complex and …

Jeremy Corbyn drew the battle lines for a crunch general election tonight as he bids to oust Boris Johnson from No10. The Labour leader rallied activists ahead of an expected autumn poll in a rousing speech to thousands of delegates in Brighton. Outlining the mounting need for a snap poll, …

Prince Harry has ‘not been acting like the Royal we know and love in the past year’ and has been behaving differently towards his brother, his biographer has claimed. Harry and Meghan Markle came under fierce criticism this month after taking four private jet jaunts in 11 days, including trips …