By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – Chelsea’s season to date has been described as stop-start and a work in progress but one thing it can no longer be called is dull – Sunday’s 3-2, 10-man home win over Brighton & Hove Albion took the goals total in their last four league games to 23. When …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Keir Starmer, leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party, has praised former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a deeply unpopular figure among many Labour supporters, as he seeks to woo Conservative voters before an election expected next year. Starmer, whose left-wing party is ahead of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives by some 20 …
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NOTTINGHAM, England (Reuters) -Dwight McNeil scored his first goal of the season to give Everton a precious three points with a 1-0 away win at Nottingham Forest on Saturday that moved them off the bottom of the Premier League table. Everton created the better chances and finally converted one of them when the ball fell …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British police said on Saturday 46 men have been charged after “serious disorder outside” Villa Park on Thursday in the build up to a Europa Conference League soccer game in which authorities said five officers were injured. “Of those, 43 have been charged with a public order offence, while two have been …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Glasgow Airport on Saturday said its runway was now fully operational and it would resume flights after planes were grounded earlier due to heavy snowfall. “Our runway is now fully operational again and we are working with our airline partners and their handlers to resume flight schedules,” Glasgow Airport said. The Scottish …
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DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) -Germany’s RWE has signed an agreement with the UAE’s clean energy developer, known as Masdar, to develop a 3 gigawatt (GW) wind project off the coast of Britain, capable of powering around 3 million homes, the companies said on Friday. The announcement came after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said at the COP …
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By Andres Gonzalez, Emma-Victoria Farr and Elisa Anzolin LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a rebound in travel and rising interest rates is leading some airport owners and operators to sell up after a dearth of dealmaking in the sector. After Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial revealed a near $3 billion deal to …
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By Elizabeth Piper DUBAI (Reuters) – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged 1.6 billion pounds ($2 billion) in funding at the U.N. climate summit on Friday and faced down critics who accuse him of undermining Britain’s standing after watering down measures to reach net zero. Sunak, in Dubai for COP28 leaders’ day, tried to restore Britain’s …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A British trade union representing train drivers said on Friday that its members had voted to continue strike action for the next six months in a long-running dispute over pay, signalling more disruption ahead for travellers. ASLEF said its members had “voted overwhelmingly to continue strike action”. The announcement came a day …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -James Dyson, the billionaire inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, lost a libel lawsuit on Friday against a British newspaper publisher over a column that branded him a hypocrite who had “screwed” Britain. Dyson sued Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), publisher of the Daily Mirror, at London’s High Court over articles …
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