LISBON (Reuters) -Three Britons were among the 16 killed in a funicular railway crash in Lisbon, Portuguese police said on Friday, as the mangled wreckage was removed for further analysis to establish the cause of the accident. Portugal is reeling from a tragedy that Prime Minister Luis Montenegro described as one of the greatest in …
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By Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) -British populist leader Nigel Farage vowed on Friday to start preparing for government, saying the nation’s two main parties were in meltdown and only his Reform UK could ease the anger and despair plaguing the country to “make Britain great again”. To a prolonged standing ovation …
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(This story has been corrected to remove a picture, with no changes to text) LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Duchess of Kent, the wife of a cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth and best known for her long association with the Wimbledon tennis tournament, has died aged 92, Buckingham Palace said on Friday. Born Katharine Worsley, she …
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(Reuters) -A 54-year-old Dorking Wanderers fan will make his debut in goal for the English sixth-tier side on Saturday after the club’s first-choice goalkeeper suffered a spleen injury, leaving them without cover for the weekend game. Terry Dunn, a “multiple promotion winner with several local clubs” according to Wanderers, hung up his gloves 28 years …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Lucy Powell, the leader of Britain’s House of Commons, was sacked by Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday as part of a wider government reshuffle triggered by Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s resignation over a tax error. Powell said Starmer had told her he intended to replace her with a new Commons leader. …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s investment minister Poppy Gustafsson is set to resign, Sky News reported on Friday, less than a year after the former chief executive of cybersecurity firm Darktrace was appointed to the role. Gustafsson was appointed to the position, which sits jointly under the finance ministry and business department, in October last year by …
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By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) -Tottenham Hotspur’s long-serving executive chairman Daniel Levy is stepping down from his role after nearly 25 years, the Premier League club announced on Thursday. “This is all part of the club’s ambition to ensure that it is set up to deliver long-term sporting success,” the London club said in a …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -An Ethiopian asylum seeker, whose arrest in July sparked angry protests outside the hotel near London where he and other migrants were being housed, was found guilty on Thursday of sexually assaulting a teenage girl and another woman. The protests outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, about 20 miles (30 …
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(Reuters) -The Independent Football Regulator has unveiled proposals to raise the bar on a new Owners, Directors and Senior Executives test to shut out “rogue owners” in English football, the body said on Thursday. The new rules will significantly tighten the criteria for determining whether individuals are fit and proper by expanding checks to include …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was expecting the results of an investigation which could decide the political future of his deputy Angela Rayner to come “pretty quickly”. Rayner, who is also housing minister, is fighting for her job after she acknowledged on Wednesday she had underpaid property tax owed when she …
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