By Peter Hall LEEDS, England (Reuters) – Harry Kane closed in on Jimmy Greaves’ all-time Tottenham Hotspur goalscoring record as he helped Spurs thrash Crystal Palace 4-0 in the Premier League on Wednesday, while Nottingham Forest beat Southampton to move out of the relegation zone. West Ham United and Leeds United remain embroiled in a …
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(Reuters) – British new car registrations rose for the fifth consecutive month in December, with an 18% increase to about 128,000, according to preliminary industry data released on Thursday. However, overall registrations for 2022 fell 2% to 1.61 million units as compared with 2021, amid pandemic-related global parts shortages, according to the Society of Motor …
By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) – British new car sales fell to their lowest level since 1992 last year as manufacturers struggled against pandemic-related parts shortages, but could grow 15% in 2023 as those supply-chain issues ease, an industry body said on Thursday. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said that according to …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Shopper numbers across Britain in December rose 5.8% from November and were up 9.9% compared to 2021 despite the impact of the cost-of-living crisis and national rail strikes, research company Springboard said on Thursday. It said the gap to pre-pandemic levels also narrowed, with December shopper numbers, or footfall, 10.9% below 2019 …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia has signaled to U.N. Security Council counterparts that it will likely allow humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey to about 4 million people in northwestern Syria for six more months, diplomats said. Authorization by the 15-member council is needed because Syrian authorities did not agree to the humanitarian …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia was planning to call up more troops for a major new offensive, even as Moscow was facing some of its biggest internal criticism of the war over a strike that killed scores of fresh conscripts. Kyiv has been saying for weeks that Russian …
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By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – British businesses are gloomy about prospects for 2023 as they face the likelihood of a surge energy bills and ongoing post-Brexit trade difficulties, the British Chambers of Commerce said late on Wednesday. The BCC’s quarterly economic survey – the largest private-sector survey of business sentiment – showed that 36% …
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By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – British grocery sales rose 9.4% to a record 12.8 billion pounds ($15.3 billion) in the four weeks to Dec. 25, though growth was driven by price inflation rather than increased purchasing, market researcher Kantar said on Wednesday. It said sales measured by volume, or the amount people bought, fell …
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By Shashwat Chauhan and Johann M Cherian (Reuters) -Britain’s main stock indexes closed higher on Wednesday with the FTSE 250 hovering near one month highs, while investors awaited minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy meeting to gauge the path forward for interest rates. The exporter-heavy FTSE 100 rose 0.4% by 1645 GMT, lagging its …
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By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s government will set out next week how it intends to scale back subsidies for businesses’ soaring energy costs, after finance minister Jeremy Hunt described the current programme as “unsustainably expensive”. The current six-month programme, which runs until the end of March, was predicted to cost 18.4 billion pounds ($22.2 …
