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LONDON (Reuters) -Ministers from Britain, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands on Thursday agreed plans to step up co-operation to tackle irregular immigration across Europe and try to stop people smugglers working in the English Channel. Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman met her counterparts from the group of northern European countries, called the Calais Group, …

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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -A lawyer for Anne Sacoolas, a U.S. government employee who fled Britain after admitting causing the death of a teenager in a car crash in England three years ago, blamed her departure on pressure from Washington as she was handed an eight month suspended sentence on Thursday. Harry Dunn, 19, …

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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s foreign minister on Thursday urged British and European Union negotiators to seize the current window of opportunity to settle their post-Brexit trade row over Northern Ireland. “This is the message I will take to London tomorrow,” Annalena Baerbock told a news conference in Dublin ahead of a visit to London on …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Love them, hate them or just don’t rate them, Prince Harry and Meghan’s Netflix documentary split public opinion after its launch on Thursday. Nick Bullen, editor in chief of True Royalty TV, said it was the most “self-serving piece of television” he had seen in quite a while, describing it as more like …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Netflix released the first three episodes in a six-part documentary series on Prince Harry and his wife Meghan on Thursday, showing how the couple met and the problems they say they faced as part of Britain’s royal family. Below are some quotes from the series: HARRY ON HIS CHILDHOOD AND THE MEDIA …

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By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -British consumer spending picked up in early December, in line with usual seasonal trends as people spent more in the run-up to Christmas, despite a surging cost of living, the Office for National Statistics said on Thursday. Credit and debit card spending in the week to Dec. 1 – which …

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(Reuters) – The ATP on Wednesday fined Britain’s Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) 820,000 pounds ($1 million) for banning male players from Russia and Belarus from this year’s summer grasscourt events ahead of the Championships over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Players were banned from the UK grass-court tournaments held in the build-up to Wimbledon, which became …

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(Reuters) – Hargreaves Lansdown named director Dan Olley as its chief executive officer on Thursday, saying the industry veteran will take charge of the British investment platform and digital wealth manager next year. The appointment comes about two months after the company said current boss Chris Hill would step down after more than five years …

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(Reuters) – DS Smith on Thursday raised its interim dividend by 25% and forecast a stronger-than-expected annual performance, after the British cardboard maker posted an increase in its first-half profit due to higher box prices and tight cost controls. The packaging giant, which supplies packaging to clients including the likes of Amazon and Unilever, reported …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British American Tobacco said on Thursday it expects full-year revenue growth of between 2% and 4% at constant currency rates, as more people are using its e-cigarettes and oral nicotine products. BAT forecast mid-single digit adjusted diluted earnings per share growth on a constant currency basis for the year ending Dec. 31. …

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