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LONDON (Reuters) – Train drivers on London’s Underground network and ambulance workers around England will take strike action next month, their trade unions said on Wednesday, as Britain faces a fresh wave of disruption from industrial action. Britain has experienced increasingly widespread strikes since last summer in sectors ranging from transport and education to border …

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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -A British-born woman, who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State, lost her latest appeal against the removal of her British citizenship, but her lawyers vowed to keep fighting and said the case was “nowhere near over”. The British government took away Shamima Begum’s citizenship on national …

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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s police force is under unprecedented pressure to reform after the conviction of officers for murder and rape, alongside evidence of widespread sexism and misogyny in its ranks. London’s Metropolitan Police has been hardest hit: After years of saying serious misconduct cases were isolated incidents, it now says it …

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By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s big supermarkets say they have never been more competitive on price, yet their customers are still flocking to German-owned discount stores Aldi and Lidl. And the discounters’ supermarket sweep still has a long way to run, industry executives say, with Aldi UK CEO Giles Hurley pledging Britain’s lowest …

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By Mark John (Reuters) – British companies involved in the world’s largest trial of a four-day working week have mostly decided to retain it in what campaigners hailed on Tuesday as a breakthrough for a better work-life balance. That may still be far from the leisurely 15-hour working week British economist John Maynard Keynes in …

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By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – British employers offered the biggest annual pay rises in 32 years during the three months to the end of January, but these increases are still a long way behind double-digit inflation, industry data showed on Wednesday. Human resources data company XpertHR said the median basic pay settlement in the …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Tuesday the United States’ Inflation Reduction Act, that promises hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies to green industries, was a “very real competitive threat”. There are concerns in Europe that the $369 billion of subsidies for electric vehicles and other clean technologies could put …

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(Reuters) – England smashed the highest-ever score at a Women’s Twenty20 World Cup before demolishing Pakistan by a record 114 runs in a group stage match on Tuesday in Cape Town, South Africa. The previous highest winning margin in the tournament was 113 runs, recorded by South Africa against Thailand in 2020. England, who claimed …

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