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(Reuters) -Premier League chief executive Richard Masters defended the league’s judicial process on Wednesday amid criticism over the slow pace of Manchester City’s disciplinary case involving 115 charges of alleged financial rule breaches. Speaking at a Premier League season launch event in Liverpool, Masters said that once charges are brought forward, the matter is handed …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s foreign minister David Lammy could be on the hook for a 2,500 pounds ($3,394) fine following his fishing trip last week with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, after admitting he didn’t have the required licence. Vance and Lammy were pictured by invited media as they fished in the lake at the foreign …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain is seeing more violent threats to kill or harm young women and girls aged 16-25, with incidents of strangulation and suffocation also increasing, leading domestic abuse charity Refuge said on Wednesday. Refuge, one of the largest specialist domestic abuse organisations in Britain, said 525 young women and girls receiving long-term support from …

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By Catarina Demony and Sam Tabahriti LONDON (Reuters) -A month before she was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend, Bethany Fields walked into a police station in northern England to report his abusive and controlling behaviour. He had threatened to kill her, but she was not assessed as high risk. Fields is among many domestic …

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LONDON (Reuters) -British foreign minister David Lammy and U.S. Vice President JD Vance will meet Ukrainian and European allies in Britain on Saturday to discuss President Donald Trump’s push for peace in Ukraine, a spokesperson for Downing Street said. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ahead of the security meeting, …

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LONDON (Reuters) -British authorities arrested almost one in five people they checked in a week-long crackdown on migrants working illegally as delivery riders last month, the government’s interior ministry said on Saturday. Immigration enforcement officers stopped and questioned 1,780 individuals between July 20 and 27 and 280 people were arrested, the interior ministry said, adding …

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By Lori Ewing MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -Manchester United’s renovated training base features smart urinals that measure a player’s level of hydration, dry flotation tanks, an underwater treadmill, a padel court, a Formula 1 simulator, and even a barber shop. United opened the doors on Friday to their 50 million pound ($67.22 million) redevelopment of their men’s …

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