Tag: UK

• Wednesday, March 21st 2018 - 10:07 UTC

  Facebook shareholder suing the company, which has lost US$ 50bn in value

  

  A Facebook shareholder is suing the social media giant for allegedly misleading investors in the Cambridge Analytica affair that's currently rocking the social network. Fan Yuan, who owns Facebook stock, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the District Court of Northern California, located in San Francisco, on behalf of Facebook shareholders. Gizmodo first reported the lawsuit, which is seeking class action status. You can read the full complaint here.

• Tuesday, January 9th 2018 - 09:24 UTC

  Holidays' scam: Britons encouraged to say they were sick to collect claims on return home

  

  Millions of Britons are being encouraged to say they were sick while on holiday, according to the Association of British Travel Agents. A poll carried out for ABTA suggests that 19% of all holidaymakers may have been approached by a claims management company on their return home.

• Sunday, December 31st 2017 - 10:18 UTC

  Margaret Thatcher's panda-phobia: “the history of pandas...is unlucky”

  

  Ex prime minister Margaret Thatcher spurned the photo opportunity of sharing a transatlantic, Concorde flight to Washington with a giant panda, newly released files from the National Archives have revealed, according to an article from The Guardian..

• Thursday, December 28th 2017 - 10:07 UTC

  Thousands of government papers “vanished” from UK's National Archives

  

  Thousands of government papers detailing some of the most controversial episodes in 20th-century British history have vanished after civil servants removed them from the country’s National Archives and then reported them as lost. Documents concerning the Falklands war, Northern Ireland’s Troubles and the infamous Zinoviev letter – in which MI6 officers plotted to bring about the downfall of the first Labour government - are all said to have been misplaced.

• Thursday, December 28th 2017 - 09:59 UTC

  Parliament demands release of studies on potential impact of Brexit on the economy

  

  The United Kingdom government is facing new calls to release confidential studies drawn up by officials looking at the potential impact of Brexit on the economy. Twenty-five Labour MPs have written to Chancellor Philip Hammond calling on him to release the material after he disclosed the work was being carried out during a recent session of the Commons Treasury Committee.

• Thursday, December 21st 2017 - 10:59 UTC

  Mrs. May reaffirms Gibraltar will be part of UK Brexit negotiations

  

  Gibraltar will not be excluded from any aspect of the UK’s Brexit negotiations, Prime Minister Theresa May insisted again, after the European Commission appeared to indicate that Spain would have a veto on any transitional arrangements covering the Rock.

• Thursday, December 21st 2017 - 10:48 UTC

  “Unprecedented” absence of Royal Navy vessels on the world stage

  

  Britain has no major warships deployed on operations beyond home waters in what has been described as an “unprecedented” absence of the vessels on the world stage. All six of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers are docked in Portsmouth, while 12 of 13 Type 23 frigates are either at Portsmouth or Devonport.

• Thursday, December 14th 2017 - 17:39 UTC

  EU warns UK there is no “backtracking” on the divorce deal reached by PM May in Brussels

  

  Britain and the EU face a “furious race against time” to agree a transition deal and future trade relations within the next 10 months, European Council president Donald Tusk has said. In a letter to the leaders of the 27 remaining EU states ahead of a crucial summit on December 14-15, Mr Tusk urged them to show continued “unity” as Brexit negotiations enter their second phase.

• Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 06:38 UTC

  UK team to survey wreck of RFA tanker sunk by WWII German U-boat in St Helena

  

  UK Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) team is heading to the South Atlantic island of St Helena to survey the wreck of a tanker sunk by a German U-boat in World War Two.

• Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 06:21 UTC

  Falklands veteran Royal Marine and yomper, feels Falklands are well defended

  

  Retired Royal Marine Brigadier Ian Gardiner, who commanded a Marine company in the 1982 Falklands war, thinks a new Argentine attack on the Islands is unlikely.