LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will spend 10.5 million pounds ($13.9 million) to help ports prepare for the European Union’s post-Brexit security checks for UK nationals entering the bloc and reduce the risk of queuing and disruption, the government said on Tuesday. More than four years after the UK formally left the EU, the 27-nation bloc …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Sterling reached a two-year high against the dollar on Tuesday, and also gained on the euro, supported by bets the Bank of England will cut rates less dramatically than the Federal Reserve while the British economy outperforms the euro zone. The pound rose as high as $1.3246, its highest since March 2022, …
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(Reuters) – Fast bowler Olly Stone will replace the injured Mark Wood in the England team to play Sri Lanka in the second test at Lord’s, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Tuesday. Wood injured his thigh during the first test and has been ruled out for the rest of the series. …
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By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday he would have to take unpopular decisions, raising the possibility of “painful” taxes on the wealthy and spending cuts to try to fix Britain’s myriad of problems he blamed on Conservative misrule. In a speech in the rose garden of his Downing Street …
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(Reuters) – British shop prices fell in annual terms this month for the first time since October 2021, pushed down by summer sales of clothes and household goods, a survey showed on Tuesday. The British Retail Consortium said shop prices fell by 0.3% in August compared with the same month in 2023, after a 0.2% …
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By Wladimiro Pantaleone PALERMO (Reuters) -Italian prosecutors have placed under investigation the captain of the superyacht that sank off Sicily last week in a storm, killing British tech magnate Mike Lynch and six other people, one of the captain’s lawyers said on Monday. James Cutfield, a 51-year old New Zealand national, is being investigated for …
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By Suban Abdulla and Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) -In 1959, Trinidadian activist Claudia Jones organised a Caribbean carnival in St Pancras Town Hall in London in response to race riots, planting the seeds for Notting Hill Carnival, one of the world’s largest street parties. Revellers on Monday, the second day of this year’s carnival, said …
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By Johan Ahlander and Stine Jacobsen STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, who became the first foreigner to lead the England national team, died on Monday at the age of 76. Eriksson, a charismatic coach who guided Swedish, Portuguese and Italian clubs to major trophies in the 1980s and 1990s before taking on the …
By Philip O’Connor STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Few who saw him play the game would ever imagine that Sven-Goran Eriksson would go on to put Swedish football on the map, but as a coach he did just that, winning major titles and managing England in a glittering, but complex career. Eriksson, who died on Monday at …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italian prosecutors have placed Captain James Cutfield under investigation over the deaths of Mike Lynch and six others after the British tech tycoon’s superyacht sank off Sicily last week, a judicial source told Reuters. The official, who asked not to be named, confirmed earlier reports in Italian media that New Zealander Cutfield …
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