By Sarah Mills Back in 1999, the all female team behind musical “Mamma Mia!”, based on songs by Swedish pop group ABBA, had no idea how successful their ‘kitchen sink’ show would be. “When you’re a producer, you just hope everything will work. So to be here 25 years (on) is a big milestone,” …
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(Reuters) -Thames Water owner Kemble said on Friday it has defaulted on its debt after missing an interest payment that was due on Tuesday, a move that could kick off a restructuring of the UK’s biggest water group. Thames Water has been engulfed in crisis and could face nationalisation after its shareholders last week said …
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(Reuters) – UBS Chief Executive Officer Sergio Ermotti on Friday said it was important that Europe allow stronger banks to be created to make them more competitive on a global level. “We can’t just rely on a crisis to create or facilitate the merger of banks,” Ermotti said. Ermotti was speaking at a conference in …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A senior member of Britain’s governing Conservative Party has admitted supplying the personal details of fellow lawmakers to someone he met online, saying he had felt compromised after he sent them intimate photos of himself. William Wragg told the Times newspaper he had handed over the phone numbers of colleagues to a man …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Staff at Britain’s official statistics agency, which publishes economic data such as inflation and economic growth figures, have voted for strike action in a dispute over requirements for working from the office, a union said on Friday. The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) said management at the Office for National Statistics …
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By Riham Alkousaa and Markus Wacket BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s ruling coalition on Friday agreed a financing mechanism for the country’s future hydrogen network, extending a deadline for it to be built by five years to 2037 and offering protection for investors in case of bankruptcy. Many countries are betting on hydrogen, which can be …
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CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) – The European Commission is likely to stick to its current forecast of roughly 0.7% growth for the Italian economy in 2024 when it publishes a new set of economic projections in June, EU Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni said on Friday. “The Commission’s forecasts indicate a growth of 0.6-0.7% for Italy …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s oldest living man, 111-year-old Briton John Tinniswood, said his longevity was “just luck” and there was no special secret to his diet – although his favourite food was fish and chips every Friday. Tinniswood, who has been retired for more than half a century, inherited the Guinness World Records title …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Foreign Secretary David Cameron will travel to the United States next week where he will urge politicians to approve a package of military aid for Ukraine. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has held up a bill for months that would supply $60 billion in military and financial aid for Ukraine. Cameron …
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By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – British house prices fell 1.0% in March, their first drop since September 2023, figures from mortgage lender Halifax showed on Friday, contrasting with the more upbeat picture from other housing data earlier in the week. Halifax, part of Lloyds Banking Group, Britain’s largest mortgage lender, said the drop was …
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