By Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s agency that determines if medicines should be used in the National Health Service (NHS) said on Thursday it is speeding up how it decides if COVID-19 therapies are still effective against circulating variants. The new review process will enable the agency to update its recommendations on the cost-effectiveness …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s opposition Labour Party has made sufficient changes over the last two years to rid its ranks of anti-Semitism, the equalities watchdog said on Wednesday, as leader Keir Starmer pledged zero tolerance of discrimination. Labour, which polls indicate has a strong chance of forming Britain’s next government after an election expected in 2024, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Wednesday it was issuing two new licences to make it easier for aid agencies helping earthquake relief efforts to operate in Syria without breaching sanctions aimed at the government of President Bashar al-Assad and its backers. The combined death toll in Turkey and Syria from last week’s earthquake has …
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By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – With the cause of Scottish independence stalled by a Westminster government veto on a new referendum, nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon on Wednesday offered a new approach to break the deadlock – her resignation as first minister of Scotland. But Sturgeon’s departure also poses a huge risk to the cause. …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Barclays on Wednesday said it was tightening lending criteria for coal power and would stop financing oil sands exploration and production, but did not announce new restrictions on oil and gas lending as some rivals have. The British bank extended a previously announced plan to phase out financing for clients involved in coal-fired …
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(Reuters) – British regional airline Flybe will wind up its business after rescue talks fell through, its joint administrators said on Wednesday, a month after the company cancelled all flights and entered insolvency proceedings for a second time in three years. The company has struggled since its relaunch in April last year, despite other low …
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By Alistair Smout and Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -Nicola Sturgeon resigned as Scottish first minister on Wednesday, saying her dominance over her party and the country was no longer the asset it once was in the fight for an independent Scotland. In power since 2014, she said she had become too divisive – and too …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – A security guard at the British embassy in Berlin who collected highly sensitive information and passed some of it to the Russian state told a London court on Tuesday that he is “disgusted with myself and ashamed of what I’ve done”. David Ballantyne Smith, 58, said he started collecting …
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(Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and finance minister Jeremy Hunt are considering a deal to end a wave of strikes among Britain’s public sector workers that would backdate next year’s pay rise, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Sunak and Hunt are mulling giving NHS staff and other key workers a lump-sum payment …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Upmarket British supermarket group Waitrose said it will spend 100 million pounds ($122 million) to cut prices on over 300 own-brand products as it fights to retain customers amid record industry inflation. After a tough 2022, British consumers are facing an even tighter squeeze on their finances this year. Inflation is running …
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