By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) -Emma Raducanu’s Wimbledon hopes were ruthlessly crushed on Centre Court by France’s Caroline Garcia as the golden girl of British sport suffered a 6-3 6-3 second-round loss on Wednesday. The 19-year-old, who rocketed to fame with her spellbinding U.S. Open triumph last year, did not play badly but had no …
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By James Davey and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. food giant Kraft Heinz has stopped supplying some products to Britain’s biggest supermarket group Tesco, which resisted charging its customers higher prices for them at a time of surging inflation. Tesco, which has an over 27% share of Britain’s grocery market, apologised for the absence …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that now was not the time for another vote on Scottish independence, and the United Kingdom was stronger as a single economic unit. Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced plans to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence in October next year, vowing …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Charles would not now accept large sums of cash handed over to him for his charities, a senior royal source said, after a newspaper reported an ex-Qatari prime minister had given him 3 million euros ($3.2 million), some of it in shopping bags. The Sunday Times said the heir to the …
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By Danilo Masoni (Reuters) – Sterling fell against it major peers on Wednesday with dovish comments by a new policymaker keeping the currency firmly on course for its biggest six-month drop against the dollar since 2016, the year of the Brexit referendum. Swati Dhingra, who is due to join the BoE in August, said the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A British parliamentary committee set out the details on Wednesday of how it will investigate whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson misled parliament over COVID-19 lockdown breaking events at his Downing Street offices and residence. The Privileges Committee will look into whether Johnson, who earlier this month just survived a confidence vote brought …
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By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Wednesday extended a package of tariffs and quotas on five steel products by two years to shield local steelmakers, acknowledging it would breach international trade rules but saying it was needed for the national interest. Trade minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan told parliament the safeguards would help defend a strategic …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said it would bolster Georgia’s resistance to cyber attacks from Russia on Wednesday, and announced additional security support for the country at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit. “The people of Georgia live every day on the frontline of Russian aggression. Putin cannot be allowed to use Georgia’s sovereign institutions to …
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(Reuters) – Britain’s Lookers Plc said on Wednesday it expects annual profit ahead of a prior outlook as margins get a boost from vehicle shortages, although it warned that supply snags are seen continuing for the remainder of 2022 and beyond. Shares of the London-listed smallcap company rose 4% in early trade. The company, which …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Wednesday that there was a stronger mandate for a Scottish independence referendum than there ever was for Britain’s 2016 vote on whether to leave the EU. “There is a stronger mandate for an independence referendum in the Scottish parliament than there ever was for a …
