By Hannah Ellison (Reuters) – A British Muslim social media star who travels around the country in his ice cream van has thanked police officers trying to control racist and anti-immigration riots by handing out free cones. Mr Tee, King of Desserts, posted a TikTok video taken in the English city of Sunderland that amassed …
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(Reuters) -Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) will begin to roll out a gene therapy from Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics to treat rare blood disorder beta thalassemia, Vertex said in a statement on Wednesday. Casgevy, which requires administration through authorized treatment centers with experience in stem cell transplantation, will be made available to eligible patients …
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By Kate Holton, Catarina Demony and Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – Thousands of police and anti-racism protesters gathered on streets across Britain on Wednesday to challenge expected far-right groups that failed to materialise following more than a week of violent racist attacks targeting Muslims and migrants. Britain has been hit by a series of riots …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain saw almost 2,000 antisemitic incidents in the first half of 2024, a record figure for the first six months of any year, a Jewish advisory body said on Thursday. The Community Security Trust (CST), which advises Britain’s estimated 280,000 Jews on security matters, said more than half of the incidents recorded …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s housing market looks set for a sales bounce in the coming months after the Bank of England cut interest rates and the new government turned its focus to the sector, a survey showed on Thursday. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said its measure of expected sales over the next three …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s jobs market showed further signs of cooling last month and employers increased pay more slowly, according to a survey which will form part of the Bank of England’s discussions about when to cut interest rates again. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation said permanent hiring extended a nearly two-year downturn although the …
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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s markets watchdog proposed a traffic light system on Wednesday showing savers how much value for money they get from their pension, with laggards possibly having their assets moved to a better performing plan if a red light flashes. The newly elected Labour government wants plans to perform better …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will gather price data from over 1 billion units of grocery sales each month from supermarket scanners when it introduces a new system for measuring inflation in the sector next year, the country’s statistics agency said on Tuesday. The Office for National Statistics, which is modernising the way it gets information …
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By Pranav Kashyap and Medha Singh (Reuters) -London stocks broadly rose for a second straight session on Wednesday, with gains in financial stocks and upbeat corporate earnings helping the indexes claw back most of the losses from earlier this week. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index ended 1.8% higher in its best showing in more than …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State has been refused permission to appeal the removal of her British citizenship by the UK Supreme Court. Shamima Begum left London in 2015 aged 15 and travelled with two school friends to Syria, where she married an IS …
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