LONDON (Reuters) – A former British intelligence worker on Monday admitted endangering national security by taking top secret data home, on the day his trial was due to begin. Hasaan Arshad, 25, pleaded guilty to one charge of under the Computer Misuse Act, committed between August and September 2022 when working at British signals intelligence …
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(Reuters) -British oilfield services and engineering firm Wood Group said on Monday it had identified “material weaknesses and failures” in its financial culture within its projects business unit, following an independent review conducted by Deloitte. Shares in the company, which have slumped about 68% since the review announcement in November, fell about 25% in early …
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LONDON (Reuters) -The chair of a charity Prince Harry set up to help young people with HIV and AIDS in Lesotho and Botswana has accused him of “harassment and bullying at scale” after he quit this week over a dispute he described as “devastating”. Harry, the younger son of King Charles, co-founded Sentebale in 2006 …
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NEWCASTLE, England (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Newcastle United fans gathered in the city on Saturday to celebrate the club’s first domestic trophy in 70 years, with the streets turning a sea of black and white for the open-top bus parade. About 150,000 people were expected to catch a glimpse of the League Cup …
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By Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) -Justin Welby, the former spiritual leader of Anglicans worldwide, reiterated he had failed to ensure proper investigations into allegations of abuse within the Church of England, saying the scale of the issue was “overwhelming”. Welby stepped down as Archbishop of Canterbury in November 2024, after calls for him to resign …
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(Reuters) -Manchester City have rejected allegations that striker Erling Haaland hit the club’s mascot Moonbeam on the back of the head causing injuries requiring hospital treatment, British media reported. The incident occurred before the home Premier League match against Southampton in October. The woman playing the role of the mascot told newspapers she was in …
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By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) – A 17th-century painting looted by the Nazis in 1940 from a Jewish art collector in Belgium will be returned to his descendants after spending three decades in a London gallery, the British government said on Saturday. Samuel Hartveld and his wife were among those escaping Nazi persecution when they …
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By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) – British band Bastille say they want to take fans on a joyous celebration of their 15 years together when they head off on their first UK arena tour in three years in November. The foursome, made up of Dan Smith, Kyle Simmons, Will Farquarson and Chris “Woody” Wood, will …
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(This March 27 story has been corrected to make clear that the data relates to Britain, not England, in the headline and paragraph 1) LONDON (Reuters) – English water companies released untreated sewage into the country’s waterways for more than 3.6 million hours in 2024, a slight increase on the year before and a record …
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By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) – The sole British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 ‘Bloody Sunday’ killings of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland will face trial in September, a court heard on Friday. Bloody Sunday became one of the defining moments of the Troubles, three decades of sectarian violence …
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