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LONDON (Reuters) -Three Afghan asylum seekers who were taken to London from an overcrowded migrant processing centre in southeast England voluntarily returned to the site on Wednesday after being left with nowhere to stay, according to a Reuters photographer. The British government is under pressure over conditions at the site at Manston in Kent, which …

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BELFAST (Reuters) – Ireland’s foreign minister said it is possible that Britain and the European Union could resolve their long running post-Brexit trade row over Northern Ireland by the end of the year if both sides are willing to compromise. Talks recently resumed for the first time in seven months on the Northern Ireland protocol, …

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By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) -The UK government could change the law to delay elections in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland’s foreign minister said on Wednesday after a meeting with the British minister for the region. The deadline passed last week for forming a power-sharing government following elections in May and Britain’s Minister for …

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By Lawrence White and Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) – British lawmakers called on banks to cut high mortgage prices on Wednesday, after a recent bout of political turmoil wreaked havoc on the market for home loans, sending prices rocketing and seeing hundreds of products withdrawn. Market chaos unleashed by former Prime Minister Liz Truss’s unfulfilled …

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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Britain, rattled by the recent near meltdown of some pension funds, is pressing ahead to tighten oversight of the so-called shadow banking sector, taking the lead ahead of possible co-ordinated international action. UK regulators could preempt recommendations by the G20’s Financial Stability Board (FSB) to require permanently higher liquidity …

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By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) – If England manager Gareth Southgate could wrap one player in cotton wool before his squad board the plane for Qatar it would surely be captain and goal machine Harry Kane. Whatever combination of players Southgate selects elsewhere in his team, the one constant is that the 29-year-old Kane can …

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By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – The cost of fresh food in British shops last month was 13.3% higher than a year earlier, the biggest annual increase in records going back to 2005, the British Retail Consortium said on Wednesday. The BRC, a trade body, said its broader measure of shop price inflation picked up …

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BRISBANE (Reuters) – England captain Jos Buttler praised the team’s attitude in their crucial win over New Zealand at the Twenty20 World Cup on Tuesday, saying the result was a “big relief” for his side who kept their semi-final qualification hopes alive. England defeated New Zealand by 20 runs in their Super 12 contest after …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain should consider changing the Bank of England’s policy of paying interest to banks on the reserves they hold there, former BoE deputy governor Charlie Bean said on Tuesday. Bean’s comments follow a proposal from another ex-BoE deputy governor, Paul Tucker, who said the government could save 30-45 billion pounds ($34-$52 billion) …

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