(Reuters) – British oilfield services firm Hunting plc said on Wednesday its first quarter core profit jumped more than threefold to beat management expectations, owing to robust activity in North America. Shares rose 4.8% to 253p at around 0726 GMT. The company, whose clients include Exxon Mobil and Chevron, saw increased client enquiries after COVID-19 …
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(Reuters) – A Scottish runner has been stripped of third place in an ultra-marathon after data showed she had used a vehicle for part of the route, the race director said. Data from the tracking system at the GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool 80km race on April 7 showed that Joasia Zakrzewski, who represented Scotland …
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By James Pearson BELFAST (Reuters) – The UK government’s cyber defence agency warned on Wednesday of an emerging threat to Western critical national infrastructure posed by hackers sympathetic to Russia and its war on Ukraine. Russia-aligned “hacktivists” have carried out largely harmless online campaigns that have defaced prominent public websites or knocked them offline. However, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Police in Scotland said a 71-year-old man who was arrested on Tuesday in connection with an investigation into the Scottish National Party’s funding was released without charge. Police had arrested the suspect in its ongoing inquiry. The party’s leader said the arrested man was the SNP treasurer Colin Beattie. Police said the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – King Charles will be crowned next month at London’s Westminster Abbey, following in a tradition that dates back some 1,000 years. Here are some little known facts about the monarch: FIRST REGAL SCHOOLBOY Charles is the first monarch to have gone to school, as all his predecessors were educated by private tutors. …
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By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Britain on Tuesday played down the impact from the leaks of highly classified U.S. intelligence documents online, saying some of the information being circulated from them was untrue and manipulated, without offering specific examples. A 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air National Guard accused of leaking top secret military …
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(Reuters) -Britain’s competition regulator said on Tuesday it has launched a “Phase 1” probe into Amazon.com Inc’s planned $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot Corp, which makes the Roomba vacuum cleaner. The probe launch by the UK watchdog comes at a time antitrust regulators, including those in the U.S. and the European Union, have become increasingly …
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By Andrew MacAskill and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – The Scottish National Party’s treasurer was arrested by police on Tuesday as part of an investigation into the finances of the governing pro-independence party that has damaged its image and undermined its new leader. Police Scotland said a 71-year-old man had been arrested as a suspect …
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By Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) – Only one thing stood between Britain and a widely expected downturn over the winter: a strong performance by its construction industry which is unlikely to spark a broader revival of the economy. Britain’s gross domestic product regained its pre-pandemic size in February, but the composition of growth by industry …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s information regulator said on Tuesday it had formally reprimanded two police forces for recording more than 200,000 phone calls, likely with victims, witnesses and perpetrators of suspected crimes, without people’s knowledge. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the reprimand was issued to Surrey Police and Sussex Police, following the rollout of an …
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