By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s cost of living crisis is showing signs of easing, an FCA survey showed on Wednesday, with a year-on-year fall in the number of people struggling to pay bills and credit repayments in January and a rise in those coping well or very well. The Financial Conduct Authority’s latest …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A senior lawmaker from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party on Tuesday left the party after he admitted handing over the personal phone numbers of his colleagues to someone he had met on a dating app. William Wragg, who has been a lawmaker in Britain’s governing party since 2015, is no longer …
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By Robert Evans LONDON (Reuters) – Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science and was vindicated by a Nobel prize-winning discovery half a century later, has died aged 94, the University of Edinburgh said on Tuesday. The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at the CERN research …
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By Simon Lewis and William James WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Britain will not halt arms sales to Israel by British companies having reviewed the latest legal advice on the matter, Foreign Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday. Six months into the Israeli air and ground campaign in Gaza, triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, …
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By Simon Lewis and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron had dinner on Monday at the Republican presidential candidate’s Florida home where they discussed the Ukraine war and “the need for NATO countries to meet their defense spending requirements,” Trump’s campaign said on Tuesday. The meeting kicked off a …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The Swiss National Bank’s foreign exchange interventions are a vital tool in the central bank’s campaign against both inflationary and deflationary pressures, Vice Chairman Martin Schlegel said on Tuesday. The SNB sold foreign currencies worth 133 billion Swiss francs ($147.04 billion) in 2023, equivalent to 17% of Swiss GDP, Schlegel told an …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British police will have a “robust policing plan” in place for a soccer match between Arsenal and Bayern Munich in London on Tuesday evening, a police statement said. “We’re aware of online and media reports in relation to calls to target matches across Europe and here in London,” London’s Metropolitan Police said. …
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By Stefano Rebaudo (Reuters) – Sterling was within striking distance of its 2-week low against the euro and slightly higher versus the dollar on Tuesday as investors were on hold ahead of U.S. data while trying to assess the UK economic outlook. Markets await British gross domestic product figures due on Friday after data from …
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(Reuters) -Imperial Brands said on Tuesday its profit for the first half of the year will be higher on the back of strong tobacco pricing and increased sales of its products such as disposable vapes. The maker of Winston cigarettes and Backwoods cigars expects to meet its full-year expectations of growing net revenue and delivering …
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By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) – Amy Winehouse’s lyrics and music were the “guiding star” for director Sam Taylor-Johnson in bringing the late singer’s story to the screen in “Back to Black”. The biographical feature film follows Winehouse’s rise to fame and portrays her relationships with her family and former husband Blake Fielder-Civil. It comes …
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