LONDON (Reuters) – London’s Garrick Club voted to allow women to join for the first time since it was founded in 1831, responding to growing public pressure to end its archaic all-male setup. The Garrick, a private club named for an 18th century actor, has been under scrutiny this year since a leak revealed that …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British fibre broadband company CityFibre said on Wednesday it recorded positive core earnings in its first quarter, ahead of its target of reaching the milestone in the first half, after it grew its customer connections by 77% to more than 400,000. The company, which serves more than 40 internet service providers and …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British investors continued piling into stocks in April, helping drive a record annual rush to take advantage of tax incentives on ‘Individual Savings Accounts’ (ISAs), according to data from fund network Calastone published on Wednesday. UK-based investors added a net 1.93 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) to equity funds and 422 million pounds …
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(Reuters) – London-focused flexible office-space provider Workspace Group named Lawrence Hutchings as its new chief executive designate on Wednesday, succeeding Graham Clemett who will step down later this year. Hutchings has held the top role at UK property real estate investment trust (REIT) Capital & Regional since 2017. (Reporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru; Editing …
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LONDON (Reuters) – South by Southwest, the music, technology and film festival (SXSW) held annually in Austin, Texas is coming to London next year in a new European edition. The inaugural SXSW London will take place in June 2025 in the English capital’s trendy eastern area of Shoreditch. “We’ll be calling into every single drop …
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By James Pearson and Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -Britain, the U.S. and Australia have sanctioned and unmasked a senior Russian leader of the notorious cybercrime gang LockBit, the British government said on Tuesday. Dmitry Khoroshev will face asset freezes and travel bans after being identified as one of the leaders of LockBit, the ransomware group which …
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(Reuters) -A “malign actor” has probably compromised the payments system used by the British military, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday after reports that China had hacked into a database holding personal information of the armed forces. The BBC and other media reported that China had been behind the cyber attack on the payroll …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Harry will not be seeing his father King Charles during his current visit to Britain as the monarch will be too busy, Harry’s spokesperson said on Tuesday. Harry, 39, has returned to Britain to attend a number of events to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games, …
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By William James LONDON (Reuters) – English police said soccer fans travelling to the Euro 2024 tournament in Germany later this year should use their common sense about culturally sensitive behaviour to avoid falling foul of German public order laws. Britain will send its largest ever deployment of officers to work with their German counterparts …
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By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s opposition Labour Party accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday of being out of touch by signalling that voters will soon feel the benefit of the end of a recession likely to be confirmed by data this week. With Labour far ahead of Sunak’s Conservatives in opinion polls before …
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