LONDON (Reuters) – BBC Chairman Richard Sharp resigned on Friday after an independent report found that he breached rules prior to his selection relating to a loan for then Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Sharp said he had been asked to stay on until the end of June giving the government time to find a successor. …
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By Tom Wilson LONDON (Reuters) – Sterling on Friday climbed against the yen to its highest in almost six months after the Bank of Japan left its ultra-easy monetary policy unchanged, sparking a broad-based drop in the Japanese currency. The yen fell against major currencies from the dollar to the euro after the BOJ decision, …
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By Alistair Smout SWINDON, England (Reuters) – Rishi Sunak faces his first big electoral test as British prime minister next week in local polls where the opposition Labour Party hopes to capitalise on a year of chaos for the governing Conservatives, ahead of a national election expected next year. Sunak has tried to restore the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British education group Pearson said it was on track to meet annual guidance after a strong start to the year, and said it would also deliver 120 million pounds ($150 million) of cost efficiencies this year. ($1 = 0.8019 pounds) (Reporting by Sarah Young, Editing by Paul Sandle)
By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – When King Charles III is crowned in a lavish ceremony next week, Britain’s main anti-monarchist movement will gather along the procession route next to a statue of Charles I, who was beheaded in 1649, leading to a short-lived republic. Supporters of Republic, a group founded in 1983 that campaigns …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -Britain’s Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency has received reports of a vessel under attack south of Yemen’s coastal town of Nishtun, it said on Friday. Shots were fired at the vessel, the agency said in a statement, adding that three boats, each with three or four people aboard, were also sighted. The agency …
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LONDON (Reuters) – London’s police force has failed to learn enough from its failures in a 2016 serial killer case to stop similar crimes happening again, a police watchdog said on Thursday in a damning report. The review of the case of serial killer Stephen Port, who was jailed for life for the murder of …
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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – London Stock Exchange Group on Thursday reaffirmed financial targets for the year and secured shareholder approval for a previously announced buyback of shares from the Blackstone/Thomson Reuters consortium. LSEG bought data and analytics company Refinitiv for $27 billion from the consortium in January 2021. The group’s traditional exchange activities …
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GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights chief called on the British government on Thursday to reverse legislation that would clamp down on protests by giving police in England and Wales more powers to act to prevent serious disruption. Britain’s Conservative government said the new powers are needed to prevent a small minority, who have been …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The British government succeeded on Thursday in limiting the length of an upcoming strike by nurses, after the health department took legal action against a trade union. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) had called a 48-hour strike from the evening of April 30, which for the first time would involve staff …
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