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December 16, 2021 at 1:37 am

UK raises interest rates as central banks focus on inflation

The United Kingdom’s central bank has become the first in a major advanced economy to raise interest rates since the coronavirus pandemic began.

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December 15, 2021 at 12:44 am

UK inflation hits decade high, pressuring Bank of England

Consumer prices in the United Kingdom are rising at their highest rate in over a decade as a result of soaring energy costs and blockages...

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December 14, 2021 at 1:06 am

Omicron stalks UK jobs market after previous fears allayed VIEW

Britain’s jobs market appears to have brushed aside the ending of a salary support program that supported millions of jobs during the coronavirus pandemic.

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December 6, 2021 at 8:00 am

All in the name: UK school to end 311-year slave trader link

A 311-year-old school in southwest England named after the slave trader Edward Colston is to change its name following a wide-ranging consultation.

November 30, 2021 at 2:04 am

Inflation in 19 nations using euro hits record high of 4.9%

Official figures show that consumer prices across the 19 countries that use the euro currency are rising at a record rate.

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FILE – People line up to get on an overseas flight at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov. 26, 2021. As the world grapples with the emergence of the new highly transmissible variant of COVID-19, worried scientists in South Africa â€” where omicron was first identified â€” are scrambling to combat its lightning spread across the country. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File) LBJ119 LBJ119

November 27, 2021 at 1:36 am

COVID variant spreads to more countries as world on alert

U.K. Health Secretary Sajid Javid confirmed that two people have tested positive with the omicron variant and that the cases are linked and related to...

November 24, 2021 at 7:54 am

UK aims to put latest energy firm casualty in administration

Britain’s energy regulator is looking to appoint an administrator to oversee the latest business casualty in the country’s domestic energy market following the demand-led spike...

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November 22, 2021 at 7:48 am

Locals gather to pay respects to longtime British lawmaker VIEW

Hundreds of residents in the southeast English coastal resort of Southend have paid their respects to their longtime member of Parliament.

November 18, 2021 at 5:17 am

UK government faces criticism over high-speed rail revisions

The British government has came under fire for scrapping a long-planned high-speed rail line to the northern English city of Leeds as part of a...

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November 17, 2021 at 2:34 am

Christmas stretch: UK inflation highest in nearly a decade

Consumer prices in the United Kingdom surged at the fastest rate in nearly a decade in October amid soaring energy costs.

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