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(Reuters) – Corporate and private investors have turned from funding autonomous trucks and passenger cars to companies and applications in a variety of non-automotive settings, from construction and mining to airports and agriculture. Among them: Company: Aurrigo Headquarters: Coventry, UK Status: public Founded: 1993 Focus: urban & airport shuttles Market capitalization: $40 million Company: Oxbotica …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is unlawfully allowing arms sales to Saudi Arabia for possible use in the war in Yemen despite evidence of repeated violations of international humanitarian law, campaigners told London’s High Court on Tuesday. The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) says the British government wrongly decided to resume issuing new licences to export …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s biggest supermarket group Tesco said on Tuesday it had purchased the Paperchase brand and related intellectual property after the stationery and gifts retailer fell into administration. Tesco will not, however, be taking on Paperchase’s more than 100 stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland, putting about 820 jobs at risk. Paperchase entered …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Two British trade unions challenging changes to public sector pensions told a London court on Tuesday that the government was unlawfully passing the 19-billion-pound ($23 billion) cost of discriminatory pension reforms onto workers. The Fire Brigades Union and the British Medical Association (BMA), which represents 160,000 doctors and medical students, say Britain’s …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Thousands of staff at Britain’s Environment Agency represented by the UNISON and Prospect trade unions will go on strike on Feb. 8 in a dispute over pay, UNISON said on Tuesday. Staff working in river inspection, flood forecasting, coastal risk management and pollution control will stage a 12-hour strike on starting at …

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(Reuters) – Britain’s National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and College of Policing have apologised to survivors and the families of the victims of the 1989 Hillsborough soccer stadium disaster in which 97 Liverpool supporters lost their lives in a crush. The 1989 FA Cup semi-final was the scene of Britain’s worst sporting disaster when 96 …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is facing its biggest day of coordinated industrial action for decades on Feb. 1 as staff from sectors across the economy walk out in an effort to win pay rises that better reflect double-digit inflation. Healthcare workers are also taking coordinated action on Feb. 6 for the first time, in what …

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By Sachin Ravikumar and Will Russell LONDON (Reuters) – London school teacher Lucy Preston will miss her son’s fourth birthday on Thursday because she has to work a second job in the evening as a private tutor to make sure she can pay for her childcare and mortgage. A day earlier, in the hope of …

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(Reuters) -Britain’s four-times Olympic champion Mo Farah said on Tuesday he expects 2023 to be the final year of his career, after confirming he will give his home London Marathon “one more shot” in April. Farah, who withdrew from last year’s event due to injury, has run the London Marathon three times with a best …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is the only Group of Seven nation to have suffered a cut to its 2023 economic growth outlook in International Monetary Fund forecasts published on Tuesday, adding to pressure on finance minister Jeremy Hunt to come up with a growth plan. Britain’s flagging economy now looks set to shrink by 0.6% …

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