LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has delayed implementing post-Brexit physical checks on so-called “medium risk” fruit and vegetables imported from the European Union for a further six months, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said on Friday. Britain voted to leave the EU in 2016 but, such was the scale of the task …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -The funeral of Sven-Goran Eriksson, the first foreigner to manage England’s national soccer team, was held on Friday in the small Swedish town where he grew up before embarking on a career that would span many decades, countries and trophies. A soft-spoken but determined coach, Eriksson guided teams in Sweden, Portugal and Italy …
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By Linda Pasquini LONDON (Reuters) – The British pound gained slightly on Friday, adding to Thursday’s rise off a three-week low against the dollar, as the focus shifted to next week’s UK inflation data and central bank meeting. Sterling edged up on the day at $1.3146, just above the $1.3127 it reached on Thursday, when …
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By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – Vodafone’s $19 billion merger with Three UK could push up bills for millions of mobile customers and impact providers like Sky Mobile by reducing the number of networks from four to three, Britain’s competition regulator said on Friday. However, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also said the deal …
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(Reuters) -Britain’s National Grid said on Friday it had agreed to sell its Electricity System Operator (ESO) to the UK government for 630 million pounds ($827.95 million), including debt. The energy infrastructure operator said it expected to complete the deal by Oct. 1, when the Labour government and energy regulator Ofgem aim to establish an …
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By Khushi Singh (Reuters) -London’s FTSE 100 hit its highest level in over a week on Thursday, amid broader gains after some clarity around the U.S. Federal Reserve’s expected interest rate cut improved risk appetite. The blue-chip FTSE 100 ended 0.6% higher, while the mid-cap FTSE 250 was up 0.8%, also registering a one-week high. …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s data centres will be classified “critical national infrastructure”, the government said on Thursday, giving the servers and I.T. systems that underpin the country’s communications extra protection from cyber attacks. Britain said the move would reassure companies building data centres, such as DC01UK, which it said had submitted proposals for a 3.75 …
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(Reuters) – A low pressure system was located a few hundred miles to the east of the Leeward Islands and has a 30% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Thursday. “Environmental conditions are expected to become even less conducive over the weekend while the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A teenager has been arrested following a cyberattack on London’s public transport body last week in which some personal customer data was accessed, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Thursday. Transport for London (TfL), which operates the capital’s tube and bus networks with millions of journeys each day, said it was …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Lloyd’s of London said on Thursday it plans to overhaul its rules on dealing with poor conduct in the commercial insurance market as its current processes for dealing with bad behaviour could be “unclear”. The Lloyd’s of London market, which employs nearly 50,000 people across insurance underwriting and broking, has come under …
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