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By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s National Grid said on Tuesday it has launched a 50 million pound ($58 million) fund to provide financial relief for consumers struggling with rising energy costs for over the next two winters. The fund will target charities which provide immediate, emergency financial support to households using pre-payment energy …

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By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Britain still faces a 40 billion pound ($46 billion) budget hole that will need to be filled by tax rises as well as spending cuts, despite recent U-turns on measures proposed during Liz Truss’s short-lived premiership, a think tank said on Tuesday. The Resolution Foundation, which focuses on issues …

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By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -British Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the country faces an “invasion” from people travelling in small boats crossing the English Channel as she fought back against mounting pressure over her repeated security breaches. Braverman was reappointed interior minister by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last week, six days after she resigned …

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By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -British billionaire James Dyson failed in a libel claim over a Channel 4 News story about alleged abuse at a former supplier’s factory on Monday after a judge ruled the broadcast was “simply not about him.” Dyson and two subsidiaries of his eponymous company sued Channel Four Television and Independent …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Monday warned Russian President Vladimir Putin of severe consequences if Moscow uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine, saying such a step would change the nature of the conflict. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly also urged Russia not to impede grain exports, and said that “increasingly desperate statements” from the Kremlin were designed …

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By Aby Jose Koilparambil (Reuters) – The dispute between Britain’s Royal Mail and its largest labour union flared up again on Monday after the workers’ body rejected a new conditional pay hike from the postal and parcel services company, citing “unacceptable changes”. Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) last week agreed to engage …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British police said the suspect who threw petrol bombs at an immigration centre in Dover on Sunday was a 66 year-old man from High Wycombe, southern England, who was later found dead at a nearby service station. On Sunday, a man threw petrol bombs attached to fireworks at a centre for processing …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The British government said on Monday all poultry and captive birds in England will legally be required to be kept indoors from Nov. 7 as part of measures to tackle the country’s largest-ever outbreak of avian flu. The mandatory housing order will extend measures already in force in parts of eastern England …

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By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) – The British government came under increasing pressure on Monday to tackle deteriorating conditions at a migrant processing centre in southeast England a lawmaker said was “overwhelmed” by the numbers of people arriving across the English Channel. Nearly 1,000 migrants arrived in Britain in small boats on Saturday alone, according …

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(Reuters) – Consultancy Next Fifteen Communications has terminated its takeover offer of M&C Saatchi after the required majority of the British advertising group’s shareholders did not vote in favour of the proposal at a court meeting on Monday. Amid a bidding war that also previously involved its biggest shareholder, M&C withdrew support for Next Fifteen’s …

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