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Home for hedgehogs: UK to restore swathes of wildlife habitat

31 Jan 2023

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will announce a plan on Tuesday to improve the environment, including a commitment to restore at least 500,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) of wildlife habitat to protect the country’s rarest species from hedgehogs to red squirrels. The proposals comprise 70 new projects including 25 new or expanded National Nature Reserves, according …

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Australia’s Flight Centre raising A$180 million to buy Britain’s Scott Dunn

31 Jan 2023

By Scott Murdoch and Navya Mittal SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd is raising A$180 million ($126.94 million) in one of the country’s first major capital raisings of 2023 to buy British travel business Scott Dunn for A$211 million. The company said on Tuesday it had agreed a deal to buy the business …

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Britain unlawfully issued surveillance warrants for nearly five years – tribunal

30 Jan 2023

(Reuters) – British spies unlawfully retained people’s intercepted data over almost five years, a tribunal said on Monday in a ruling that blamed “widespread corporate failure” at the domestic intelligence agency MI5 and the interior ministry. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which did not mention specific cases or intelligence targets in its written judgment, said there …

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FTSE 100 gains ahead of central bank meetings, Unilever up on new CEO

30 Jan 2023

By Sruthi Shankar and Shristi Achar A (Reuters) – The FTSE 100 gained on Monday as investors awaited a slew of central bank decisions this week, with Unilever supporting the index after the consumer goods giant announced a new chief executive officer. The blue-chip FTSE 100 ticked 0.3% higher, while the midcap FTSE 250 dropped …

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British beer-maker stockpiling malt to try to beat price squeeze

30 Jan 2023

By Sarah Young and Ben Makori WATERBEACH, England (Reuters) – At the Milton Brewery in eastern England, Richard Naisby’s warehouse is jammed full of pallets stacked high with sacks of malt, a key ingredient for his traditional cask beers. Whereas he mostly used to order the grain when he needed it, Naisby is now stockpiling, …

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British EV startup Arrival to lay off half its staff, names insider as CEO

30 Jan 2023

(Reuters) -Britain’s Arrival SA said it was laying off 50% of its employees in a move that will help halve its cash operating expenses, as the electric-vehicle startup tries to ride out a cash crunch threatening its survival in the competitive market. The move announced on Monday underscores the pressure on EV startups that had …

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Britain’s Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike

30 Jan 2023

LONDON (Reuters) -Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike during a phone call in the run up to the invasion of Ukraine, a charge denied by Moscow. Johnson, speaking to the BBC for a documentary, said the Russian leader had asked him about the …

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‘I acted pretty decisively’, says UK’s Sunak after sacking party chair

30 Jan 2023

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday he had acted “pretty decisively” by sacking Conservative Party chair Nadhim Zahawi over his personal tax affairs, moving to quell criticism that he had acted too slowly. In the latest scandal to involve one of his ministers and just months after he entered Downing Street …

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