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1 week ago | 
marketscreener.com | Sarah Young |Alistair Smout
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain will pass emergency laws on Saturday to keep British Steel's blast furnaces open, aiming to save the country's steel-making capability and thousands of jobs, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said. British Steel, owned by China's Jingye Group, employs 3,500 people at its Scunthorpe plant and supports more in the supply chain. It intended to immediately close the blast furnaces, which are losing 700,000 pounds ($914,760) a day, the government said.
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Sarah Young |Janaki Venugopalan
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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2 weeks ago | 
marketscreener.com | Sarah Young |Janaki Venugopalan
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain softened demands on automakers to switch to production of electric vehicles on Monday, seeking to alleviate pressure on an industry left reeling from U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. The sector welcomed the move, but said the government needed to go further to protect it from the fallout of the 25% U.S. tariff on car imports imposed on April 3, as markets plunged on worries of a global trade war and economic slowdown.
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3 weeks ago | 
au.news.yahoo.com | Sarah Young
The boss of Heathrow came under fire for an 18-hour shutdown at the airport after an airline representative said he had raised concerns about the hub's resilience days earlier, as MPs scrutinised the nationally embarrassing incident. A blaze at a substation near the airport caused the closure on March 21, raising questions about the resilience of national infrastructure. The incident left about 300,000 people stranded and cost airlines millions of pounds.
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3 weeks ago | 
thewest.com.au | Sarah Young
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3 weeks ago | 
denvergazette.com | Sachin Ravikumar |Sarah Young
By Sachin Ravikumar and Sarah YoungLONDON (Reuters) - Britain is still hopeful that any tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump will be reversed shortly, if the two sides can agree the outline of a new economic partnership, its business minister said on Tuesday. Britain had sought to avoid Trump's global tariff plan by offering to more closely align with Washington on areas such as technology and artificial intelligence.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Sarah Young
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Sarah Young
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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3 weeks ago | 
srnnews.com | Sarah Young
Virgin Atlantic flags slowdown in US to UK travel in recent weeks By Sarah YoungLONDON (Reuters) – Virgin Atlantic, majority owned by Richard Branson, said demand for travel from the U.S. to Britain had slowed, echoing a warning from its part-owner Delta Air Lines over the impact of U.S. economic uncertainty. Delta slashed its first-quarter profit estimates on March 10, citing weakening lower U.S. consumer and business confidence as worries about tariffs and rising prices take hold.
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3 weeks ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Sarah Young |Sam Tobin
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's biggest mobile network providers including Vodafone and BT's EE on Monday urged a London tribunal to throw out a mass lawsuit valued at over 3.2 billion pounds ($4.3 billion) for allegedly overcharging customers.
