LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William spoke on Tuesday of his “much-missed grandmother” Queen Elizabeth as he called for action to tackle the illegal wildlife trade saying it was destroying lives and endangering too many species. In his first speech since being made Prince of Wales following the queen’s death last month, William told the …
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BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) -Britain’s foreign minister James Cleverly on Tuesday said there were good signs around talks with the European Union to find a solution to the long running post-Brexit trade row over Northern Ireland. The stand-off over the Northern Ireland protocol is the biggest of several issues straining relations between the EU and Britain, …
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(Reuters) – German-owned discount supermarket Lidl GB said on Tuesday it would hire 1,000 hourly paid staff in Britain over the next five months for its new stores and warehouses. The new recruits will earn a minimum of 10.90 pounds ($12.43) an hour outside of London and 11.95 pounds inside the M25 motorway. The company, …
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By Harry Robertson LONDON (Reuters) -The pound rose for the sixth consecutive session on Tuesday as investors welcomed the British government’s U-turn on some tax cuts and the U.S. dollar fell. Sterling was last up 0.75% at $1.1409, off a session high of $1.1428. The euro was up 0.44% against the pound at 87.16 pence. …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Coleen Rooney, wife of ex-England soccer captain Wayne Rooney, will receive up to 1.5 million pounds ($1.7 million) in legal fees from the spouse of one of her husband’s former teammates after winning her high-profile libel case, a judge has ruled. Rebekah Vardy, wife of Leicester City striker Jamie …
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By Carolyn Cohn and Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – Some of Britain’s top open-ended property funds are rolling out new measures to manage investor exit requests, as challenges in meeting redemptions continue to rise amid a sell-off in some UK risk assets. Last week’s spike in UK gilt yields sent many British pension funds scrambling …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British baker and fast food chain Greggs this week introduced a further round of price rises, including for the sausage rolls it is famous for, as it battles rising costs, its boss said on Tuesday. “We have put a small number of rises across products as of yesterday, we’ve worked hard to …
(Reuters) – UK shares rose on Tuesday, lifted by financials and commodity-linked stocks, as markets joined a global rally after a choppy start to the quarter in the previous session when the government reversed tax cuts proposed last month. The export oriented FTSE 100 was up 1.4%, while the more domestically oriented FTSE 250 climbed …
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BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss said on Tuesday it was the right time for Britain to take on some extra borrowing to try to spur economic growth, adding that the country had a low debt to gross domestic product ratio. “This is the right time to take on some extra borrowing …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss said on Tuesday that King Charles’s travel plans were a matter for him, and she would not discuss the content of their meetings. Asked about a report in the Sunday Times newspaper that Truss had told Charles not to attend a world leaders’ climate change summit in …
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