LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Princess Beatrice, King Charles’ niece, has given birth to a baby girl, her second daughter and child with husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Buckingham Palace said on Wednesday. The baby, Athena Elizabeth Rose Mapelli Mozzi, was born at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Wednesday. She weighed 4 pounds and 5 ounces. …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – More than a dozen British climate activists challenged their sentences on Wednesday, arguing their jail terms of up to five years failed to reflect their conscientious motivation for direct action protests. The appeals of 16 Just Stop Oil activists, who were jailed for between 15 months and five years, …
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By Andrew MacAskill EYNSHAM, England (Reuters) -Britain’s Labour government will back the construction of a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport to boost trade and economic growth, finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday. Successive governments have dithered over whether to expand the site to the west of London, with politicians and the legal system …
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By Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) – John Perumbalath, bishop of the English city of Liverpool, has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman and harassing another, Channel 4 reported on Tuesday, in the latest scandal to hit the Church of England in recent months. In a statement sent to Reuters, Perumbalath denied the allegations, saying …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Rachel Reeves is expected to back the expansion of Heathrow Airport on Wednesday, turning to the country’s most controversial infrastructure project in her hunt for economic growth. But even with her support, the plan for a third runway at Heathrow, one of the world’s busiest airports, has numerous hurdles …
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By Lori Ewing MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Manchester United’s plan to build a 100,000-seat stadium has taken a big step toward becoming reality, with the vision receiving the green light from the Trafford Council executive. The approval on Monday evening came after the British government backed the regeneration project. The decision to either renovate Old …
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By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) – The UK population is projected to rise to 72.5 million by mid-2032 from 67.6 million in mid-2022, driven almost entirely by net migration, the Office for National Statistics said on Tuesday. Britain has seen record levels of immigration in recent years, and the ONS projections may fuel a debate …
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(Reuters) -British home improvement retailer Wickes on Tuesday forecast 2024 profit would be at the higher end of market expectations on strong demand for garden project-related equipment and for interior paint, sending shares 12% higher. Home improvement retailers have had a tough year on slowing demand for big projects, but Wickes said that sales at …
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(Reuters) – Former Premier League referee David Coote has apologised for the actions that led to his sacking last month by English soccer’s referees’ body PGMOL, saying that the pressure of the job and fear of abuse due to his sexuality triggered his behaviour. Coote was fired after being suspended in November following a video …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British health authorities said on Monday they had detected a case of the H5N1 bird flu in a person in central England but added that the risk to the wider public remained “very low”. The person acquired the infection on a farm, where they had close and prolonged contact with a large number …
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