UK firms plan to hedge more currency risk as sterling swings
Nearly half of UK businesses surveyed by FX and cash management solutions provider MillTech say that they have lost money due to a volatile pound and plan to hedge more ...
Hundreds of ‘high-value’ artefacts stolen from UK museum
More than 600 high-value artefacts were stolen from a building in the English city of Bristol where items from a museum collection were being stored, police said on Thursday.
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UK’s Starmer says Europe is strong and united behind Ukraine
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that Europe was strong and he would stand up for its values of freedom and democracy after US President Donald Trump said ...
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UK stadiums swap cows for deer in bid to tackle carbon footprint
The humble beef burger is disappearing from menus at stadiums across Britain, as venues such as Brentford’s Gtech Stadium switch to wild venison in a bid to slash carbon ...
UK house price growth slows to weakest rate since March
Britain’s housing market slowed in November in both annual and monthly terms in the run-up to the government’s budget, according to figures from mortgage lender Halifax.
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British MP given honorary doctorate by university in north
A British member of parliament from the country’s ruling Labour Party has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Girne American University in Kyrenia, the university announced on Sunday.
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Four arrested after Tower of London display case containing State Crown defaced
Four people were arrested at London’s Tower of London after they threw food at a display case containing the Imperial State Crown, police said on Saturday, leading to a ...
Putin authorised 2018 Novichok poisoning of ex-Russian spy Skripal, UK inquiry says
Russian President Vladimir Putin must have ordered the Novichok nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in 2018, in a “reckless” display of power that led to the death ...
Farage’s Reform lands one of Britain’s biggest ever political donations
Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party secured 9 million pounds ($12 million) from businessman Christopher Harborne in the third quarter of this year, the Electoral Commission said on Thursday, one of ...
UK nursery worker pleads guilty to sexually assaulting children and filming abuse
A British nursery worker on Wednesday pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting young children in his care and filming the abuse in what London police described as one of its most ...
UK budget watchdog head quits over early release of Reeves’ budget
The head of Britain’s fiscal watchdog resigned on Monday after the agency last week inadvertently released key details of the government’s annual tax and spending budget before finance ...
UK MP Tulip Siddiq handed jail sentence in absentia in Bangladesh graft case
A Bangladesh court sentenced British lawmaker and former minister Tulip Siddiq in absentia to two years in jail on Monday in a corruption case involving the alleged illegal allocation of ...
Starmer says he is proud of budget and public was not misled
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he was proud of last week’s budget, defending not only what he described as the “fair choices” in it but also ...
Runaway Buddy the reindeer sparks massive UK search operation
A reindeer named Buddy sparked a huge search operation in northern England involving police, the coastguard and Royal Marines after he went on the run from a nearby Christmas event.
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UK’s Reeves says she did not mislead public on the budget
British finance minister Rachel Reeves on Sunday denied she misled the public over official forecasts ahead of this month’s budget, saying she had been honest about the need to ...
UK to hold fresh pork, other affected Spanish products at border amid African swine fever outbreak
Britain said on Friday it would temporarily stop imports of pork meat from parts of Spain after the country confirmed its first cases of African swine fever in just over ...
Britain says talks to join EU defence fund have broken down
Britain said on Friday that talks to join the European Union’s defence fund SAFE had broken down, in a major setback to a much-vaunted post-Brexit reset of relations aimed ...
UK net migration drops by two-thirds as government rolls out tougher policies
Long-term net migration to Britain fell by more than two-thirds in the year to June, official data showed on Thursday, extending a downward trend fuelled by tougher government policies to ...
Man who drove into crowd at Liverpool football parade pleads guilty to 31 charges
A British man who injured more than 130 people by ploughing his car into a crowd of Liverpool football fans during May’s Premier League victory parade pleaded guilty on Wednesday ...
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UK Chancellor takes tax burden to post-war high to bolster finances
British Chancellor British finance minister Rachel Reevesannounced a big tax-raising budget on Wednesday that will take more money from workers, people saving for a pension and from investors to give ...
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Reeves to test faith of investors and party with tax-heavy budget
British finance minister Rachel Reeves is likely to announce tens of billions of pounds of new tax increases on Wednesday in a budget that puts her credibility on the line ...
Farage says he ‘never directly racially abused anybody’ after school charges
Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s anti-immigration Reform UK party, has said he has “never directly racially abused anybody”, after a report alleging he made antisemitic remarks at school.
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UK house price growth hits smallest annual rise since May
British house prices in September were 2.6 per cent higher than a year earlier, the smallest annual rise since May and down from an upwardly revised increase of 3.1 per cent in ...
Daily Mail owner strikes $650 million deal to buy the Telegraph
Daily Mail owner DMGT said on Saturday it had struck a 500 million pound ($650 million) deal to buy rival newspaper The Telegraph in a tie-up that would create one of the ...