LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government has said it will investigate how prices for concert tickets sold on official websites are hiked when demand surges, after fans seeking their spot at next year’s Oasis reunion shows faced soaring costs over the weekend. Culture minister Lisa Nandy said it was “depressing to see vastly inflated prices” on …
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By Selena Li HONG KONG (Reuters) – HSBC’s new chief executive Georges Elhedery, who took the helm at the Europe’s largest lender on Monday, said he was committed to build on the bank’s current strategy, according to an internal staff memo. Elhedery, who joined HSBC in 2005, takes over the reins at the bank from …
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(Reuters) – Sterling dropped against the euro but was still within striking distance of a one-month high, while rising versus a weakening dollar. The greenback eased but remained close to its highest level in almost two weeks as investors focused on a U.S. jobs report due at the end of this week. British factories had …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British actor Ian McKellen said on Monday he feared he would die when he lost his footing and fell off a London stage mid-performance in June. McKellen, 85, was starring in “Player Kings”, combining William Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Parts One and Two”, in the capital’s West End theatre district, when he tripped …
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By Lawrence White LONDON (Reuters) – It is rare a player scores a century in both innings but fails to win the man-of-the-match award, but that is the fate that befell Joe Root as he ceded the honour to all rounder Gus Atkinson as England swept aside Sri Lanka on Sunday. Atkinson became only the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Labour Party announced plans on Saturday to deliver the most “packed legislative agenda” for a new government in decades, including the introduction in the autumn of laws to improve employees’ rights and greater protection for renters. With parliament due to return from its summer recess on Monday, the Leader of the …
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By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -Tickets for next year’s Oasis reunion tour sold out by Saturday evening though fans eager to see the band play live for the first time in 16 years complained of technical issues and long online waits that often ended in disappointment. Fans trying to access the three websites selling the …
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By Hugh Lawson LONDON (Reuters) – England’s Joe Root said he had lost none of his desire to score runs for his country and get better as a player after compiling his 34th test century on Saturday at Lord’s in the second test against Sri Lanka. Root’s second hundred of the match put his team …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -Sri Lanka slumped to 196 all out on day two to concede a huge lead in the second test at Lord’s on Friday after Gus Atkinson’s superb maiden century put England in control of the match. Kamindu Mendis (74) provided the only real resistance and was the last man out …
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(Reuters) – News of British rock band Oasis’ long-awaited reunion tour next summer has led to a surge in searches for travel to Britain and Ireland, Spanish online travel booking company eDreams said on Friday. Searches for flights overall rose nearly 30-fold on Tuesday, the day the band announced its return to the stage, eDreams …
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