LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Sky News, one of the country’s major television news channels, was off air on Friday. “Sky News have not been able to broadcast live TV this morning, currently telling viewers that we apologise for the interruption,” the broadcaster’s executive chairman David Rhodes said on X. A global tech outage was affecting …
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(Reuters) -British investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown said on Friday its new customers and net new business rose in the fourth quarter, after more investors made tax-saving investments at the end of the fiscal year. Hargreaves, which is also set to agree to a takeover deal with a CVC-backed consortium, said net new clients jumped 85% …
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NOTTINGHAM, England (Reuters) -England’s Ollie Pope rode his luck to make 121 and lead the hosts to a rapid 416 all out on the first day of the second test against West Indies at Trent Bridge on Thursday. Dropped on 46 and 54, Pope compiled his sixth test century as the hosts built on Ben …
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By Alistair Smout and Andreas Rinke BLENHEIM PALACE, England (Reuters) -Britain’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer, hailed European unity on Thursday, saying deeper defence and security cooperation would better support Ukraine while shared intelligence could help tackle illegal migration. Closing a meeting of the European Political Community (EPC) of more than 40 nations at Blenheim …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said he was hopeful he would be able to work towards solutions for improving the situation linked to migration from France towards Britain in talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday. Speaking ahead of a meeting with the British prime minister, Macron said Starmer’s arrival in …
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By Purvi Agarwal and Roshan Abraham (Reuters) -British stocks rose on Thursday after a slew of positive corporate updates, while data showed UK wage growth slowed but not enough to seal expectations of an interest rate cut early next month. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index closed 0.2% higher. Frasers Group jumped 9% to the top …
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By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) -The new Labour government will have to act fast to get Britain back on track to meet its 2030 climate target, with just a third of the required emission reductions covered by a credible plan, the country’s climate advisers said on Thursday. As part of efforts to reach net zero …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Five climate activists from the Just Stop Oil protest group were each jailed for at least four years on Thursday over a conspiracy to block London’s M25 motorway, marking the longest sentences ever imposed for a non-violent protest in Britain. The five – including Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new government said on Thursday that its planned requirement for the country’s official budget watchdog to assess big changes to tax and spending policy would only apply to fiscal changes equivalent to at least 1% of economic output. “A measure or combination of measures is ‘fiscally significant’ if the measure or …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Britain let down its citizens by leaving the nation ill-prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic because of significantly flawed planning and failures by ministers and scientific experts, a public inquiry concluded in a scathing report on Thursday. Britain recorded more than 230,000 deaths by December 2023, a similar death rate to …
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