LONDON (Reuters) - London Olympic organisers have put out a call for men with rhythm after wrapping up the first auditions for thousands of performers needed for next year’s opening and closing ceremonies. Organisers LOCOG said in a statement on Sunday that more than 10,000 hopefuls had auditioned over the past month for roles in [...]
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron has criticised comments made by “Top Gear” TV motoring presenter Jeremy Clarkson after he said public sector strikers should be “shot in front of their families.” Clarkson was speaking on Wednesday as state workers like nurses, teachers and civil servants were staging a 24-hour strike against government plans [...]
Image 1 of 2 Demonstrators walk on a protest march in central London (REUTERS) Image 1 of 2 By Mark Hughes, Victoria Ward 6:43PM GMT 30 Nov [...]
LONDON (Reuters) - Chancellor George Osborne will face a difficult task defending his austerity programme on Tuesday, when he is expected to unveil forecasts showing much weaker growth and a borrowing overshoot of at least 86 billion pounds over four years. Osborne’s autumn budget statement at 12:30 BT is expected to show independent growth forecasts [...]
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain plans to spend an extra 600 million pounds on so-called “free schools” outside municipal control over the next three years, the country’s Finance Ministry said on Saturday. Free schools are the flagship education policy of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition that came to power in May 2010, and can set their own [...]
LONDON (Reuters) - Companies will be freed from bureaucratic employment rules to try to boost hiring and aid a stagnant economy, the government said on Wednesday, angering unions who fear that protection for workers could be undermined. Employers’ groups welcomed the plans, which include restricting workers’ access to tribunal hearings, but unions said the proposals [...]
LONDON (Reuters) - The parents of a murdered schoolgirl pleaded on Monday for newspapers to curb practices such as phone hacking and covert photography as a public inquiry into media standards turned the spotlight on the celebrity obsessed press. The disclosure in July that a long-simmering row over phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s News of [...]
LONDON (Reuters) - A group of economists is urging British Chancellor George Osborne to defend his pro-growth agenda by modifying immigration curbs that would damage the nation’s competitiveness and growth, the Financial Times said on Monday. In a letter to the newspaper, the economists expressed criticism of forthcoming changes to Home Office policy which are [...]
LONDON (Reuters) - James Murdoch, fighting for his career, held his line that he was innocent of covering up phone-hacking at the News of the World tabloid and blamed other former executives in a parliamentary hearing on Thursday.[Read more...]
LONDON (Reuters) - Prince William and his wife Catherine have chosen to make the former apartment of Princess Margaret their permanent London residence, his office said on Sunday.[Read more...]
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