April 4 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

The Times

- Representatives of small businesses and workers have expressed concern at 'drastic' plans to reduce the frequency of second-class post deliveries, warning it could have damaging knock-on effects for the economy.

The Guardian - Major European airlines have started to resume flights to and from Israel. Wizz Air, easyJet and British Airways are now all flying to Tel Aviv, and Virgin Atlantic is planning a resumption this year.

- Network Rail is to spend nearly 3 billion pounds ($3.79 billion) to protect the railway from the effects of the climate crisis and extreme weather, as it warned that the country's network was having to contend with hotter summers and more winter floods.

The Telegraph

- Billionaire activist investor Nelson Peltz has failed in his attempt to secure a seat on Disney's board after shareholders backed the Hollywood giant instead.

Sky News

- The Post Office's IT helpdesk was instructing Fujitsu , the maker of faulty accounting software, to change sub-postmaster accounts more than a decade ago, according to leaked recordings.

- Virgin's Richard Branson urged businesses to ditch Russia after he was introduced as a character in popular computer game Minecraft as part of a fundraising effort for Ukraine. ($1 = 0.7906 pounds) (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)