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LONDON (Reuters) – British arms and military vehicles could be manufactured in Ukraine under licence, easing the country’s dependence on supplies of arms from Western allies, the Telegraph newspaper reported on Sunday. The Telegraph said British defence industry executives had travelled to Kyiv to discuss plans to set up joint ventures to manufacture weapons and …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s pop music honours, the BRIT Awards, were held in London on Saturday. Below is a list of the winners at the ceremony. ALBUM OF THE YEAR: “Harry’s House”, Harry Styles SONG OF THE YEAR: “As It Was”, Harry Styles ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Harry Styles GROUP OF THE YEAR: Wet Leg …

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By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -British police said on Saturday 15 people, including a 13-year-old child, had been arrested after a protest by crowds outside a hotel housing asylum seekers turned violent, causing injuries and a police van being set on fire. Offenders threw missiles including lit fireworks at police officers following an initially peaceful …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The official emblem which will be used for the celebrations to accompany the coronation of Britain’s King Charles in May was unveiled on Friday, with the design giving a nod to the monarch’s many years of environmental campaigning. The emblem features flora from all the four nations that make up the United …

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By Vin Shahrestani LONDON (Reuters) – When Katie Mulligan baked a beetroot cake for her colleagues at a London advertising agency, she was focused on getting the recipe right rather than whether it was acceptable to bring treats into the office.     But office cake culture has recently been challenged by the head of Britain’s food …

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By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest railway workers’ union rejected the latest pay offers from train companies on Friday, signalling more pain for commuters who have been disrupted by sporadic strikes since last summer. Amid a wave of industrial action by health workers and teachers among others, the National Union of Rail, Maritime …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British transport workers belonging to the TSSA union will vote on the latest pay offers in a long-running dispute, the union said on Friday. Separately, RMT, the largest rail workers’ union in the UK, said it had rejected the last pay offers it had received from employers. (Reporting by Muvija M; Editing …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The Premier League said on Friday it will be donating one million pounds in response to the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. “The Premier League is deeply saddened by the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, which have killed thousands of people,” a statement from England’s top soccer league read. “The League …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Friday the British economy was not yet clear of difficulty, reacting to data which showed zero growth in the final quarter of 2022, but that Britain had avoided entering a recession. “The fact the UK was the fastest growing economy in the G7 last year, as …

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(Reuters) – Britain’s Treasury is in discussions to speed up a post-Brexit reform that will unlock 100 billion pounds ($120.88 billion) of investment from UK’s insurance sector, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. British officials are discussing whether to pursue a two-stage implementation of the European Union’s Solvency II …

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