By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -British online fashion retailer Boohoo slid to a loss after revenue fell 17% in its first-half and said a slower than expected recovery in sales volumes could result in little or no top-line improvement for the full year, hitting its shares. The stock plunged 10% in early deals on the …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British baker and fast food chain Greggs kept its full-year outlook as underlying sales rose in the third quarter and it won market share, showing the resilience of its value offer in a cost of living crisis now into a second year. Greggs also said on Tuesday the rate of cost inflation had …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British police on Monday said they were attending the scene of a fire in Oxfordshire, believed to have been caused by a lightning strike on gas containers owned by Severn Trent Green Power. A spokesperson for Severn Trent Green Power said a digester tank at its Cassington facility near Yarnton, Oxfordshire, was struck …
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By Marie-Louise Gumuchian RICKMANSWORTH, England (Reuters) – From “Star Wars” droid C-3PO’s head to Leonardo DiCaprio’s “Titanic” costume, a trove of costumes and props are headed to auction next month in a sale of film and television memorabilia worth around $14.6 million. More than 1,800 items are being sold by entertainment memorabilia auctioneer Propstore at …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Prices in British store chains rose at the slowest pace in a year in September, according to industry data that adds to signs that the UK’s high inflation rate is set to extend its recent fall. The British Retail Consortium said annual shop price inflation cooled to 6.2% last month from 6.9% …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Bank of England rate-setter Catherine Mann said on Monday that she thought the central bank’s forecasts told a fundamentally different story to her personal view that high inflation was likely to prove to be persistent. Mann, an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee and a long-time advocate of higher interest rates, …
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -Chief executives, business organisations and lawmakers from northern England were scratching their heads on Monday over when Prime Minister Rishi Sunak would announce a decision to scrap or delay the northern leg of Britain’s HS2 high-speed rail project. While most agreed Sunak had most probably decided to delay the stretch running from …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain last month experienced its joint-warmest September on record, facing temperatures that would have been “practically impossible” without human-induced climate change, its national weather forecaster said on Monday. The Met Office, citing provisional statistics, said September’s mean temperature of 15.2 degrees Celsius matched a record figure from 2006, making it the joint-highest …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France is reluctant to delay post-Brexit tariffs that are set to hit electric vehicles traded between Britain and the European Union, French government sources said, in a move that could hit carmakers on both sides of the Channel. Under the EU-UK post-Brexit trade deal, EVs need to have 45% of EU or …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A second British police force said on Monday it had launched an investigation following allegations of harassment and stalking made against actor and comedian Russell Brand. Last month, the Sunday Times newspaper and Channel 4 TV’s documentary show “Dispatches” reported four women had accused Brand, 48, of sex offences, including a rape, …
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