Category: Couriers/delivery industry

Resurrect HS2 northern leg to boost rail freight capacity, say UK manufacturers

Reviving line to Manchester and Leeds would help get lorries off roads and cut emissions, according to lobby groupManufacturers will press ministers today to resurrect plans for a high-speed rail line reaching Leeds and...

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On-demand UK grocery firms plan to switch riders back to gig contracts

Couriers will be moved to cheaper insecure deals after government fails on promise to bring in new employment billRapid grocery delivery firms are preparing to move hundreds of couriers paid by the hour on to insecure...

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‘Economically illiterate’: business leaders blast PM’s Tory conference speech

Next boss, thinktanks and unions criticise Boris Johnson, saying ‘shortages cannot be blustered away’Boris Johnson’s vision for the UK has had a frosty reception with business and union leaders, with one...

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‘Economically illiterate’: PM’s Tory conference speech gets frosty reception

Next boss, thinktanks and unions criticise Boris Johnson, saying ‘shortages cannot be blustered away’Boris Johnson’s vision for the UK has had a frosty reception with business and union leaders, with one...

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Boris Johnson: petrol crisis and pig cull part of necessary post-Brexit transition

Prime minister says UK cannot go back to ‘failed old model’ of immigration and low wagesQueues for petrol and mass culls of pigs at farms because of a lack of abattoir workers are part of a necessary transition for...

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