By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – Sales volumes at UK supermarkets fell 4.1% year-on-year in the four weeks to July 16, with nine out of ten Britons saying they are increasingly watching what they are spending as they battle a cost of living crunch, industry data showed on Tuesday. Market researcher NielsenIQ highlighted a 9.4% …
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LONDON (Reuters) -London’s Heathrow said a decision to cap flight numbers after it struggled to cope with a rebound in travel had delivered a marked improvement in punctuality and baggage handling. The airport capped the number of passenger departures at 100,000 a day earlier this month to limit queues, baggage delays and cancellations, to the …
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(Reuters) – Azeem Rafiq said he was “incredibly proud” of former Scotland cricketers Majid Haq and Qasim Sheikh for speaking out about the racist abuse they had suffered in their careers, which led to a damning review into Cricket Scotland. The review, which was backed by SportScotland, was published on Monday and said the governance …
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(Reuters) – Laura Kenny, Britain’s five-time Olympic gold medallist, said she contemplated walking away from cycling at the start of this year after a miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy left her at “breaking point”. Kenny said in April she had miscarried at nine weeks in November and had had a fallopian tube removed in January due …
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By Jonathan Cable LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England (BoE) will likely shy away from a bigger interest rate rise in August and instead stick to the more modest 25 basis point increases it has been delivering, but it is a very close call, a Reuters poll of economists found. The BoE is grappling …
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By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) -David Trimble, the Northern Irish leader who steered the region’s Protestant majority into an historic peace deal with their Catholic rivals that earned him a Nobel Peace Prize, has died aged 77, his family said on Monday. Trimble, who became Northern Irish first minister in the power-sharing government that emerged …
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By Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) – Britain’s FTSE 100 rose on Monday, supported by banks and commodity stocks in a choppy session, with data showing Britain’s industrial output slowed but tentative signs of price pressures coming off their peak. The benchmark FTSE 100 index climbed 0.4%, reversing early losses, while the domestically focussed mid-cap index …
By Andy Bruce and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) – The final two candidates in the race to succeed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson clashed on Monday in a televised debate, during which they tore into each other’s tax and spending plans. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, the bookmakers’ favourite to win the Conservative Party leadership election, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Foreign secretary Liz Truss will promise on Tuesday to bring in “tough and decisive action” to limit strike action by trade unions if she becomes Britain’s next prime minister, the latest salvo in a divisive fight to lead the Conservative Party. In a week when rail unions are planning to strike over …
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BELFAST (Reuters) – Few Nobel laureates can have endured as much vitriol during their careers as David Trimble, the one-time hardliner who led Northern Ireland’s Protestant majority into a historic peace pact with their Catholic rivals and who died on Monday aged 77. Many Protestants regarded him as a traitor selling out their British identity …
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