By JEEVAN RAVINDRAN LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. citizen Donna Werner is no stranger to royal celebrations – for more than three decades she has travelled to Britain to join in the public party at weddings and jubilees. Now she is ecstatic to be in London for her first coronation. “And we’re off! This is such …
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By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – One in five British households intend to buy extra or special groceries for King Charles’ coronation as an extended weekend brings families and friends together, survey data from market researcher NIQ showed on Wednesday. Britain’s new monarch will be crowned at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony full of pomp …
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(Reuters) – British lender OSB Group Plc on Wednesday raised its full-year outlook for underlying net loan book growth to 7% from about 5% earlier, aided by a rise in interest rates and a revival in demand for mortgage loans. Lenders, who weathered the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the Signature Bank in March, …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – The coronation ceremony for King Charles on Saturday will be the most glorious display of pageantry seen in Britain for a generation and will provide an economic boost to the nation, its organiser and Buckingham Palace have said. Charles, along with his wife Camilla, will be crowned at London’s …
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(Reuters) -Wrexham’s Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney ditched the star-studded Met Gala to join the Welsh soccer club’s open-top bus victory parade on Tuesday as they celebrated promotion to the English Football League. Wrexham last month secured a fairytale return to the EFL following a 15-year absence by beating Boreham Wood 3-1 to …
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By Natalie Thomas and JEEVAN RAVINDRAN LONDON (Reuters) – Margaret Tyler’s fascination with the British royal family began as a child, when she would cut out photos of the now-King Charles III and his sister, Princess Anne. The 79-year-old, just four years older than the British monarch, is among the royal super fans who cannot …
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By Shristi Achar A and Johann M Cherian (Reuters) -London’s FTSE 100 reversed early gains to end Tuesday lower as a slump in energy firms outweighed strong earnings from Europe’s biggest lender, HSBC, in the first quarter. HSBC Holdings Plc advanced 3.5%, touching a near two-month high as it also announced its first quarterly dividend …
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By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) -A Barclays banker, one of three men of Cameroonian background to sue the bank in a joint London claim, alleges he has felt pigeonholed as an “aggressive Black man” in a lawsuit seeking almost 15 million pounds ($19 million) in damages. Christian Abanda Bella, 41, is the last to be …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Apple Inc urged a London tribunal on Tuesday to block a $2 billion mass lawsuit accusing it of hiding defective batteries in millions of iPhones by “throttling” them with software updates. The tech giant is facing a lawsuit worth up to 1.6 billion pounds plus interest, brought by consumer …
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By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) -More than one million National Health Service staff in England will receive a pay rise after trade unions representing a majority of workers involved in a long-running dispute voted to accept a deal on Tuesday. The offer, covering nurses, paramedics, midwives and other workers in England, includes a one-off payment …
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