By Sarah Mills (Reuters) – Rock duo Royal Blood began its life in the southern English coastal resort of Worthing, but says it feels at home in the United States, where it will tour its fourth full length album to be released on Friday. Formed in 2011, the band initially struggled to get a gig …
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By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) -The air traffic control glitch which caused thousands of flight cancellations and delays into and out of Britain has been fixed and will not be repeated, the head of NATS, the country’s air traffic control provider, said on Wednesday. Thousands of Britons remain stranded abroad after 1,500 flights were cancelled …
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(Reuters) -Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has temporarily suspended the listing of Superdry Plc’s ordinary shares of 5 pence each on request, the fashion retailer said on Wednesday. The company said its annual results would be delayed and that it had requested the suspension of trading in its shares as it works with its auditor …
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By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – The number of house purchases in Britain this year is on course to drop by 21% to its lowest since 2012 as a result of rising borrowing costs, property website Zoopla forecast on Wednesday. Zoopla forecast there would be 1.0 million residential housing sales this year, down from 1.26 …
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(Reuters) – Britain’s state-run national health service will be the first in the world to offer an injection that treats cancer to hundreds of patients in England which could cut treatment times by up to three quarters. Following approval from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), NHS England said on Tuesday hundreds of …
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By Lucy Marks LONDON (Reuters) – Lying on his side on the surface of London’s iconic Millennium Bridge, artist Ben Wilson paints a piece of dried chewing gum trodden into the ground. “The important thing is the gum is below the metal tread,” said 60-year-old Wilson, dressed in a paint-daubed orange jumpsuit. “The beauty of …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Tuesday it would remove some European Union rules it had retained post-Brexit that were meant to curb water pollution, to enable thousands of new homes to be built, a move environmentalists said would further spoil dirty rivers. The EU’s “nutrient neutrality” laws were put in place to ensure that …
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By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -A London scheme to cut traffic emissions by imposing a daily charge on the most polluting vehicles expanded to the whole of the British capital on Tuesday, despite fierce opposition from those who say it will exacerbate a cost of living crisis. The Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) was introduced …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The British government will delay imposing full post-Brexit import controls on goods from the European Union by a further three months, it said on Tuesday, pushing the start date back to January 2024. Britain left the EU’s single market in January 2021 and has delayed full implementation of border controls several times …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Prices in British store chains rose in August at the slowest pace in nearly a year, according to industry data that offers further relief for consumers hit by high inflation and for the Bank of England which is trying to quash it. The British Retail Consortium said annual shop price inflation cooled …
