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(Reuters) – Marston’s said on Wednesday people were eating less and drinking more at its pubs in the last four weeks due to the recent spell of very hot weather, and the British pub group warned that electricity costs would be higher than expected. A surging inflation environment globally has spiked prices of everything from …

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By Richa Naidu LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Reckitt Benckiser, maker of Dettol and Lysol cleaning products, on Wednesday raised its full-year revenue forecast after steep price hikes helped it beat second-quarter sales expectations. The company said quarterly like-for-like revenue rose 11.9% on a constant currency basis, far ahead of the 6.8% growth analysts had expected …

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By Aby Jose Koilparambil (Reuters) -Britain’s De La Rue has terminated its supply agreement with paper-making firm Portals Paper Ltd as the banknote printer cuts costs during a worldwide transition to polymer banknotes, the printer said on Tuesday. De La Rue said the 16.7 million-pound ($20.1 million) settlement with Portals will help the company save …

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LONDON (Reuters) -London underground rail staff plan to strike on Aug. 19 over jobs and pensions, the RMT union said on Tuesday, in the latest industrial dispute that could disrupt Britain’s transport services. “Unless there can be assurances made about jobs, pensions and detrimental changes to working conditions, then our strike on August 19 will …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is enacting the early stages of drought plans which involve using water carefully to protect supplies, the government said on Tuesday, following record-breaking temperatures. There are so far no plans for curbs on water use but regulators and water companies are working to manage water levels, including by operating water transfer …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Shoppers at a supermarket chain in southern England are being tracked by facial recognition cameras, prompting a legal complaint by a privacy rights group. Big Brother Watch said Southern Co-operative’s use of biometric scans in 35 stores across Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Bristol, Brighton and Hove, Chichester, Southampton, and London was “Orwellian in the …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Climate activists at Greenpeace plan to mount a legal challenge against the British authorities allowing Shell to develop the Jackdaw North Sea gas field, after a similar case against a BP field was initially rejected by a court. The future of oil and gas fields such as Jackdaw has become a lightning rod …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Tuesday it had sanctioned Kremlin-imposed officials in the Luhansk and Donetsk provinces in eastern Ukraine as well as 29 regional governors across Russia in response to Moscow’s invasion of the former Soviet republic. The 42 new designations added to Britain’s Russia sanctions also included Russia’s minister and deputy minister of …

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LONDON (Reuters) -British health agencies have secured funding to develop a standardised approach to test the performance of vaccines being used or in development against monkeypox, days after the World Health Organization (WHO) labelled the growing outbreak a global health emergency. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) said it would give up to $375,000 …

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