By Sachin Ravikumar GLASTONBURY, England (Reuters) -Elton John enthralled a massive Glastonbury crowd on Sunday night in possibly his last show in Britain, delighting loyal fans but disappointing others who had hoped for star guest appearances. The flamboyant British singer’s performance followed two sun-drenched days at the famous music festival in southwest England, where tens …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Sterling gave back early small gains against the dollar and euro on Monday as traders continued to grapple with the implications of the previous week’s outsized rate hike by the Bank of England. The pound was last flat against the dollar at $1.2712, having earlier been up as much as 0.25%. That was …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Serious Fraud Office aims to decide whether to charge any ex-Glencore employees with bribery offences by the end of 2023, the agency’s lawyers told a London court on Monday. The SFO is investigating former employees of Glencore’s UK subsidiary Glencore Energy UK Limited over potential criminal offences in relation to its …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Prince William launched a five-year project on Monday seeking to end homelessness in Britain, saying he was following in the footsteps of his late mother Princess Diana who had alerted him to the crisis when he was a child. William, 41, the eldest son of King Charles and the heir to the throne, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is prepared for a range of scenarios in Russia, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday, noting the potentially destabilising impact of the tensions between the Wagner Group and President Vladimir Putin. Putin faced an unprecedented challenge to his authority over the weekend from an abortive mutiny by heavily armed mercenary …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The British arm of Celsa Steel has fully repaid an emergency COVID loan it received 3 years ago, generating a further 300 jobs in the process, the government said on Monday, as questions remain over the future of the industry in Britain. The government gave Cardiff-based Celsa Steel UK an emergency loan …
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(Reuters) – Britain’s medicines regulator on Monday lifted a ban on using blood plasma from UK-based donors for deriving albumin, which is used in critically ill patients to replace blood loss from severe injuries and treat diseases like sepsis. The ban on plasma-derived medicinal products in the UK was imposed in 1999 as a safety …
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By Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) -HSBC has decided to leave its longstanding headquarters in Canary Wharf in east London in favour of a move to a much smaller office in the centre of the city, according to a memo seen by Reuters. Europe’s largest bank told staff its preferred option was to move to the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, has urged people to make sure they have checks for cancer after disclosing she has undergone surgery herself for the disease. Ferguson, 63, the ex-wife of King Charles’ brother Prince Andrew, had successful surgery after breast cancer showed up in a routine mammogram screening, her …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British supermarket Sainsbury’s said on Monday it would invest 15 million pounds ($19.1 million) in cutting prices on basic items, to stay competitive and keep cost-conscious shoppers onside during the country’s cost-of-living crisis. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to halve inflation this year but his efforts are being hampered by persistently …
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