(Reuters) -British recruiter PageGroup forecast on Thursday an annual operating profit of about 22 million pounds ($29.95 million), down from last year but in line with market view, months after withholding it due to U.S. tariff uncertainty. PageGroup’s performance has been decimated in recent years as troubles keep compounding for the company, which has been …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A British man offered personal information about former defence minister Grant Shapps to Russian intelligence for money, prosecutors said on Wednesday at the start of his trial for a National Security Act offence. Howard Phillips is accused of offering Shapps’ home address and phone number to two people he believed were Russian agents, …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Junior doctors in England will go on strike from July 25-30, their trade union said on Wednesday, after the British government said it could not meet their demands for an improved pay deal this year. Junior doctors, also known as resident doctors and who make up a large share of the medical workforce, …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -A Palestinian family of six who are stuck in Gaza despite having permission to join a relative in Britain asked London’s High Court on Wednesday to make officials reconsider their refusal to ask Israel for help to leave the enclave. Lawyers representing a Palestinian couple and their four children said …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Seven housing developers have agreed to pay a total of 100 million pounds ($136 million) to affordable housing programmes in Britain following a competition watchdog investigation into potentially anticompetitive behaviour. Barratt Redrow, Bellway, Berkeley Group, Bloor Homes, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Vistry have agreed to a package of commitments to address the Competition …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain must radically reform its criminal justice system, including by removing the right to trial by jury for certain offences, to help tackle a record-high backlog of cases, a government-commissioned report recommended on Wednesday. The report recommends removing the right to choose a jury trial where a defendant faces a maximum of two …
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By Andrew MacAskill and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday Britain and France must work together to counter the world’s many destabilising threats and protect Europe from “excessive dependencies” on the United States and China. Macron, in a rare address to both houses of the British parliament, celebrated the return …
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LONDON (Reuters) -France will lend Britain the Bayeux Tapestry, allowing the 11th century masterpiece to come back across the Channel for the first time in more than 900 years, in a show of friendship to mark President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit. King Charles welcomed Macron for a three-day trip on Tuesday, aimed at celebrating the …
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MADRID (Reuters) -Liverpool’s Portuguese forward Diogo Jota was probably speeding when the Lamborghini car he was driving crashed in northwestern Spain, killing him and his brother, police said in a preliminary report on Tuesday. The forensics team is analysing the marks left by one of the car’s wheels on the asphalt that suggest a tyre …
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -Thirteen people may have taken their own lives and others were bankrupted or became seriously ill as a result of Britain’s Post Office scandal, a public inquiry found on Tuesday, laying bare the toll of one of the country’s worst miscarriages of justice. Inquiry chair Wyn Williams said on Tuesday …
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