By Edward Baran LONDON (Reuters) – The unusual world of Hawkins, Indiana, came alive in London on Thursday as Netflix debuted a stage play based on its hit sci-fi series “Stranger Things.” Called “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” the play takes place in 1959, two decades before the period explored in the TV show. It …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Harry was the subject of phone-hacking and other unlawful information gathering by British publisher Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) over several years, a judge at London’s High Court ruled on Friday. Here are details of the case: WHAT IS THE CASE ABOUT? Harry and 100 others sued MGN, publisher …
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By Michael Holden and Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -Prince Harry scored the biggest win yet in his legal war against British tabloids on Friday when London’s High Court ruled he had been a victim of phone-hacking and other unlawful acts by Mirror Group journalists with the knowledge of their editors. King Charles’ younger son, who …
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LONDON/TOULOUSE (Reuters) -A teenager from Britain who resurfaced in southern France after disappearing six years ago is expected to return to England over the weekend, French authorities said on Friday, after the boy left a spiritualist community in the Pyrenees mountains. Alex Batty disappeared at the age of 11 during a holiday with his mother …
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By Shashwat Chauhan and Shubham Batra (Reuters) – The UK’s FTSE 100 fell on Friday led by a drop in pharma and biotech stocks, but both the major equity averages managed to eke out some gains for the week that was dominated by interest rate decisions from major central banks. The blue-chip FTSE 100 slid …
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By Sam Tobin and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -High-profile British broadcaster Piers Morgan, the former editor of British tabloid the Daily Mirror, knew about phone hacking at the newspaper, a judge at London’s High Court ruled on Friday in a lawsuit brought by Prince Harry and others. Morgan has often publicly criticised Harry and his …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The publisher of Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper apologised after a ruling in Prince Harry’s favour over phone-hacking but said the judgment would limit future compensation claims, helping to draw a line under the long-running scandal. While Daily Mirror parent company Reach apologised “unreservedly” on Friday, it also said it would benefit from …
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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – The collapse of Credit Suisse and Silicon Valley Bank showed that Britain’s banks should keep testing their failure procedures and never assume they are ‘too big to fail’, Bank of England Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden said on Friday. After taxpayers had to bail out lenders during the global financial …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry will on Friday find out the result of his phone-hacking lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People. The case – which saw Harry become the first senior British royal for 130 years to appear as a witness in court at …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British consumer confidence inched higher in December as households became less pessimistic about their future financial situation after the squeeze from high inflation, a survey showed on Friday. The GfK Consumer Confidence Index rose to -22 from -24 in November, in line with the consensus forecast in a Reuters poll of economists. …
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