LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s civil servants have announced a new date for strike action with 100,000 members across England, Scotland and Wales planning to walk out on March 15, coinciding with the government’s Spring Budget, the PCS union said on Tuesday. “(Prime Minister) Rishi Sunak can end this dispute tomorrow if he puts more money …
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(Reuters) – Two men were jailed on Tuesday for the knifepoint robbery of British cyclist Mark Cavendish at his family home in November 2021. Romario Henry, 31, from south-east London, who denied committing the robbery but was found guilty at trial last month, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Ali Sesay, 28, from Kent, …
By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) – Britain must set out a new strategy to boost military production and overhaul wasteful procurement to better support Ukraine and signal to Russia that things can only get worse, opposition Labour’s defence policy chief said on Tuesday. With Labour commanding a healthy lead over the governing Conservatives, its top …
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By William James LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will accelerate reforming its underperforming railways, transport minister Mark Harper said on Tuesday, banking on a fresh injection of private sector competition to improve service standards and make ticket pricing fairer. Britain privatised its railways in the 1990s, splitting infrastructure management from service provision, which complicated long-term investment …
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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) -Britons would be limited to 20,000 digital pounds ($24,000) each if the country goes ahead with a digital currency, Bank of England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe said on Tuesday. Britain’s government said on Monday that it and the BoE were pressing on with work on a possible digital pound that …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Tesco and its German discount rival Lidl traded allegations of copying brands and deceiving customers at London’s High Court on Tuesday in a dispute over Britain’s biggest retailer using a yellow circle on a square blue background. Lidl sued Tesco in 2020, shortly after Britain’s market leader, with a …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -A former London police officer was jailed on Tuesday for more than 30 years for an “unrestrained campaign of rape and abuse of women” over nearly two decades in the latest scandal to hit Britain’s biggest police force. David Carrick, who worked in the Metropolitan Police’s parliamentary and diplomatic protection …
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By Elizabeth Piper, Andrew MacAskill and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reshuffled his cabinet on Tuesday, breaking up two departments to better suit his pledges to spur the economy, reduce energy prices and turn around his party’s fortunes before an election expected next year. Sunak created a new energy security and …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Supreme Court is to rule on Wednesday on a challenge to the validity of the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol which governs post-Brexit trade between the region and the rest of the United Kingdom. The challenge, taken by Brexit activists and the leaders of Northern Ireland’s largest pro-British parties, was rejected by …
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(Reuters) – About 30-plus truckers with fuel haulage contractor JW Suckling Transport engaged in a Phillips 66 contract to supply fuel to UK’s Jet garages are being balloted for a strike over a pay dispute, the Unite Union said on Tuesday. The drivers are based at depots in Essex, West London and Grangemouth, Unite said …
