Good morning. Unemployment in the UK has fallen to its lowest level in almost 50 years as more Britons left the workforce. The latest ONS figures showed 3.6% of adults were out of work and looking for work in the three months to the end of July, down from 3.8% in the previous quarter. It …
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Wall Street stocks and bond prices fell on Tuesday and the dollar rose after U.S. inflation data for August came in higher than expected. The broad gauge of S&P 500 shares fell 2 percent at the opening bell, while the Nasdaq Composite, which is loaded with technology companies more sensitive to changes in interest rate …
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King Charles and the Queen consort have shaken hands and spoken to the public during a historic visit to Northern Ireland. Her Majesty took a short walk in Hillsborough before a meeting with the country’s political leaders. His arrival in Northern Ireland marks the first visit to the country by a British king in almost …
Queen Elizabeth II’s cortege arrives at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh Tens of thousands lined the streets and queued for hours to pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II. Mourners lined up throughout the night to view the Queen’s coffin at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh before the coffin arrives in London …
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, head of the Royal Air Force, said the plane that will carry the Queen’s coffin to London has been used for aid missions in Ukraine and was also use last year to help evacuate people from Afghanistan. “It’s a C-17 Globemaster, which is our strategic transport aircraft, but on …
Queen Elizabeth’s state funeral will take place at 11am on Monday, September 19, following her death at Balmoral on Thursday. The late Queen’s son and heir, Charles, is now the King. Details of his final journey from Balmoral to Windsor, and when members of the public can pay their respects, were released by the Earl …
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Hearse to Buckingham Palace The hearse will drive to Buckingham Palace, where it will be greeted at the grand entrance by a guard of honor, made up of three officers and 96 soldiers of the King’s Guard. A group of pallbearers met by The Queen’s Company, 1st Bn Grenadier Guards, will carry the coffin into …
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his country’s forces had retaken 6,000 km² (2,400 square miles) of Russian-held territory in the south and east of the country. Ukrainian forces have continued to press their counterattack in Kharkiv, seeking to take control of almost the entire province. Ukrainian troops moved north, reportedly retaking towns as far as …
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The gay rights organization LGB Alliance was created to “promote transphobic activity rather than pro-LGB activities”, the head of the Consortium, an umbrella group of LGBT organisations, told a court on Monday. In the first full day of hearings in transgender rights charity Mermaids’ appeal against the Charity Commission’s decision to grant charity status to …
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Key events Show only key events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature Civil liberties campaigners and others have expressed alarm at the police response to anti-monarchy protesters amid a series of incidents in recent days, the latest of which included the arrest of a man in Edinburgh for apparently question Prince Andreu. The Metropolitan …