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By Ankita Bora (Reuters) -Workspace Group said on Wednesday that uncertainty ahead of the UK budget led to delays in leasing decisions by small- and medium-sized businesses, as the London-focused flexible office space provider reported a half-yearly loss amid falling valuations.      Shares of the company, which have fallen about 18% so far this year, tumbled …

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(Reuters) -England have included pace bowler Mark Wood in a 12-player squad announced on Wednesday for the first Ashes test against Australia. Wood, cleared of a hamstring injury last week, returns to test action after more than a year, having last played in August 2024. The 35-year-old, who was one of England’s standout bowlers in …

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LONDON (Reuters) -British house prices in September were 2.6% higher than a year earlier, the smallest annual rise since May and down from an upwardly revised increase of 3.1% in August, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed on Wednesday. Private-sector rents for homes in October were 5.0% higher than a year earlier, down …

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GLASGOW, Scotland (Reuters) -Scotland reached the World Cup finals for the first time since 1998 in hair-raising fashion as stoppage-time goals by Kieran Tierney and Kenny McLean secured a memorable 4-2 victory over Denmark at a rocking Hampden Park on Tuesday. When Patrick Dorgu equalised for the second time in the 81st minute, it seemed …

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By Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) -A delegation from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) reparations commission visiting London for the first time urged Britain on Tuesday to help Caribbean nations “clean up the mess” left behind by slavery, colonialism and their enduring impacts. “You have to help us clean up this mess that you have created so …

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By David Milliken and Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill said on Tuesday that he did not expect his view on interest rates to shift much in the near term, saying wage growth was still substantially above what he viewed as consistent with the BoE’s inflation target. “I think when …

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