(Reuters) – Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has been appointed as the head coach of the second-tier England Lions team for the upcoming year, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Saturday. The 46-year-old will take charge in October, overseeing their tour of South Africa, followed by a red-ball series in Australia in …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A national memorial to the late Queen Elizabeth will be erected in a central London park, the British government announced on Saturday, at a site which it said had historical significance and a close personal connection to the record-breaking monarch. Elizabeth II died at her Scottish castle on Sept. 8, 2022 after …
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LONDON (Reuters) -England captain Ollie Pope returned to form with a classy unbeaten 103 to guide his team to 221-3 on a weather-affected first day of the third and final test against Sri Lanka at The Oval on Friday. Pope, under pressure after a run of low scores, silenced his critics with his seventh test …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Oasis’s debut album “Definitely, Maybe” returned to the top of the UK charts on Friday 30 years after its release, amid fan excitement over the British band’s reunion concerts next year. “Definitely, Maybe” went straight to No.1 when it came out in 1994, and the record went back to the top spot, …
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s consumer watchdog on Friday said it has launched an investigation into Ticketmaster over the sale of Oasis tickets, a day after British regulators announced a similar probe. Thousands of fans waited hours in virtual queues in Britain and Ireland last weekend to get their hands on tickets for the band’s reunion …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A British man was jailed for nine years on Friday for arson at a hotel housing asylum seekers last month, by far the longest sentence imposed over a wave of anti-Muslim riots. Thomas Birley, 27, pleaded guilty to arson with intent to endanger life after stoking a fire in a bin by an …
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By Aby Jose Koilparambil (Reuters) -British high-end homebuilder Berkeley on Friday reiterated its annual profit forecast, saying trading has been stable over the first four months of its current fiscal year. The housing market is expected to benefit from the UK’s first rate cut in more than four years last month, as well as from …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British house prices rose last month at the fastest annual pace since late 2022, data from mortgage lender Halifax showed on Friday, adding to signs of renewed momentum in the property market after a recent fall in interest rates. House prices increased by 4.3% in August, the biggest annual gain since November …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain needs an additional one trillion pounds ($1.3 trillion) in investment in the next decade to grow the economy, a report said on Friday. New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he wanted the economy to achieve annual growth of 2.5% when campaigning in the run-up to July 4’s election – a …
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(Reuters) – The first legally binding international AI treaty will be open for signing on Thursday by the countries that negotiated it, including European Union members, the United States and Britain, the Council of Europe human rights organisation said. The AI Convention, which has been in the works for years and was adopted in May …
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