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(Reuters) -WH Smith on Thursday reinstated dividends after its annual profit slightly beat market expectations due to a rebound in travel demand from COVID-19 pandemic lows, even as labour strife disrupted business at its shops at train stations. The company, which sells everything from books and sandwiches to Bluetooth headphones, said it would pay a …

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(Reuters) -Britain’s National Grid reported a jump in half-yearly profit on Thursday and said it expects to invest up to 40 billion pounds ($45.55 billion) between 2022 and 2026, with a strong focus on decarbonisation of energy networks. The company said underlying operating profit from continuing operations rose 50% to 2.1 billion pounds in the …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said on Thursday there would be an election in the province in the first three months of next year after Britain pushed back a deadline to call a new vote. “I’ve given myself two periods of six weeks … that simply means the first three months of …

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By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – British employers cut their hiring of permanent staff via recruitment firms for the first time in nearly two years in October as the country’s political upheaval added to concerns about the economy, a survey showed on Thursday. With the Bank of England now warning of the risk of the …

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By Sachin Ravikumar and Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of British nurses will go on strike for the first time over demands for better pay, their trade union said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during an economic crisis. Nurses at the majority of state-run National Health Service (NHS) …

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By Alistair Smout LYDD, England (Reuters) -Britain is stepping up its support for Ukrainian soldiers through the winter, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told Reuters on Wednesday, following weeks of Ukrainian advances towards the southern city of Kherson. Wallace joined NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to observe the training of Ukrainian troops in the southeast English …

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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday he would keep pressing Egypt over imprisoned Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who has had no contact with his family since he said he would stop drinking water this week. Sunak, who raised the case with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at …

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