LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Port of Dover has paused the planned roll-out of the European Union’s new biometric border checks to car passengers as it has not yet been given the go-ahead by French authorities, it said on Saturday. Last month, the EU started to phase in its much-delayed Entry/Exit System (EES) for all non-EU citizens, …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A union representing British Border Force workers said on Friday that more than 120 staff who patrol Britain’s waters, in “sometimes harrowing roles”, plan to strike on November 14 to protest over pay and working conditions. The majority of the UK’s around 10,000 Border Force staff work in airports and ports across the …
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By Michael Holden and Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s King Charles has stripped his younger brother Andrew of his title of prince and forced him out of his Windsor home, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday, seeking to distance the royals from him over his links to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Andrew, 65, the younger brother …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s King Charles stripped younger brother Andrew of his title of prince and ordered him out of his royal home over renewed scrutiny after the release of a posthumous memoir by one of the most prominent accusers of late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The book by Virginia Giuffre detailed new allegations about …
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By Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) -For lifelong monarchist Anita Atkinson, who owns one of the world’s largest collections of British royal memorabilia, King Charles’s decision to strip his younger brother Andrew of all his titles was nothing more than a monarch’s duty. “When you are born into the royal family, duty must come first,” the …
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By Kate Holton and Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) -King Charles’ ruthless move to banish his younger brother Andrew from public life was born of a desire to insulate a weakened monarchy before he passes on the crown, but it remains to be seen if the profound damage can be contained. Charles stripped Andrew of his …
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By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) -British politicians, press and the public welcomed King Charles’ banishment of Andrew from public life on Friday after the monarch acted to shield the institution from his younger brother’s ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Charles stripped Andrew of his title of prince and evicted him from his mansion in …
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By Michael Holden and Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) -Once widely reputed to be Queen Elizabeth’s favourite son and feted as a dashing young military officer, Andrew will now be etched into the public memory as the royal who was accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl and lost his title of prince. Britain’s King Charles …
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By Sarah Young and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves released more information on Thursday to show she had not been responsible for a failure to secure a rental licence for her home, seeking to defuse what could have been another damaging crisis for the government. After a late-night apology on Wednesday …
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LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) -Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate won a privacy case against French magazine Paris Match for publishing paparazzi photographs of them and their children on a private holiday, a notice published in the magazine said on Thursday. William, the older son of King Charles and the heir to the throne, is known …
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