(Reuters) – Manchester United defender Luke Shaw’s injury is more complicated than previously thought, manager Erik ten Hag said ahead of their final game of the Premier League season against Brighton & Hove Albion. Shaw has played 15 games for United across all competitions this term. The 28-year-old was expected to return from muscle injury …
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LONDON (Reuters) – From Andy Warhol’s colourful depiction of Queen Elizabeth II to Cecil Beaton’s pictures of her sister Princess Margaret, a new exhibition looks at portrait photography of Britain’s royal family over the last 100 years. “Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography”, which opens at The King’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace on Friday, features …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Reality television stars are among nine people charged in Britain with promoting unauthorised trading schemes on Instagram in the first crackdown on “finfluencers”, the UK Financial Conduct Authority said on Thursday. Emmanuel Nwanze, 30, and Holly Thompson, 33, offered advice on trading high-risk foreign currency derivatives over the social media platform between May …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday it was expelling the British defence attache and promised further, unspecified retaliation after Britain threw out his Russian counterpart last week. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said it had summoned a British embassy representative to inform them of the move. On May 8, Britain announced it was ordering out the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Every major sporting body in England must have robust sustainability plans in place before 2027 or face funding cuts, Sport England said on Thursday as part of a 45 million pounds ($56.98 million) investment to help deal with climate change. “It’s time we moved from informing and encouraging to enabling and requiring, …
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By Shaloo Shrivastava BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Bank of England will start bringing down interest rates in August, according to a slim majority of economists polled by Reuters, while only slightly fewer of them predicted a rate cut next month. BoE Governor Andrew Bailey said after last week’s monetary policy meeting that policymakers needed to …
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By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has fined over 400 overseas entities for failing to sign up to a new register designed to shed light on illicit wealth hidden in UK property, although less than 3% of the penalties have been paid so far, new data shows. Companies House, Britain’s public corporate registry, told …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain plans to introduce a range of liberalising measures for venues like casinos, bingo halls and arcades as part of a plan to boost land-based gambling as it seeks to keep pace with the fast-growing online betting and gaming sector. The move was aimed at modernising “the outdated and overly restrictive regulations” that …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England should wait for more conclusive evidence that strong inflation pressures in Britain are becoming less stubborn before it moves to cut interest rates, BoE policymaker Megan Greene said on Thursday. Greene said in a speech that there was more uncertainty about the degree to which the persistence of …
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By Andrew MacAskill, Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer pledged on Thursday to “rebuild Britain”, setting out what he called the first steps in government if his party wins a national election later this year. Starmer, who has pulled his party towards the political centre ground after it had veered to …
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