By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) – London’s famous Tube travel map will feature new names including “Lioness”, “Windrush” and “Suffragette” in a multi-million pound rebranding of the Overground train network intended to make it easier for passengers to get around. The map was originally designed for London’s Underground rail network, known as the Tube, but …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Thursday it would supply thousands of more drones to Ukraine as part of its 200 million pound ($251 million) drone package, in an international effort it is co-leading with Latvia. “Together, (the UK and Latvia) will give Ukraine the capabilities it needs to defend itself and win this war, …
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will push ahead with faster completion of share transactions to catch up with Wall Street, but market participants will be given enough time to adapt their systems, the chair of a government-commissioned review said on Thursday. From the end of May, shares traded in the United States, Canada …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Train drivers in Britain at five rail operators have voted to continue taking strike action for six months, PA Media reported on Wednesday, citing the ASLEF trade union. (Reporting by William James, Writing by Sachin Ravikumar)
By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) – Britain recorded thousands of antisemitic incidents after the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas in October, making 2023 the worst year for UK antisemitism since 1984, when Jewish advisory body CST began recording such data, it said on Thursday. The number of antisemitic incidents across the country reached …
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By Lori Ewing ASHBOURNE, England (Reuters) – For two days every year, residents of the English market town of Ashbourne set aside friendships in favour of geographical rivalries and family ties to play Shrovetide football, a ferocious and chaotic game that’s centuries old. “For a lot of the people, it is the highlight of the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party are on course for a landslide victory at a national election later this year that would surpass Tony Blair’s win in 1997, according to a projection published on Wednesday. Pollster Find Out Now and political consultancy Electoral Calculus used modelling known as multilevel regression and post-stratification (MRP) to …
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SOFIA (Reuters) – Britain wants an “absolute guarantee” that the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) will not employ staff who are willing to attack Israel, Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Wednesday, after allegations that some were involved in the Oct. 7 violence. Britain last month joined the United States in “temporarily pausing” funding for …
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By David Milliken and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said he was encouraged by Britain’s latest inflation data which left price growth broadly as the central bank expected, and he pointed to early signs of a pick-up in the economy. Official figures released on Wednesday showed consumer prices rose 4.0% …
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By Kirstin Ridley and Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s markets watchdog has ordered more than 1,000 banks, insurers and brokerages to report how many sexual harassment, discrimination and other non-financial misconduct cases they have recorded since 2021 and how they have dealt with them. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) promised lawmakers in January it …
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