Tag: England

• Thursday, January 31st 2019 - 09:28 UTC

  Barclays is transferring €190bn of assets from London to Dublin

  

  Barclays is moving €190bn (£166bn) of assets to Dublin because it “cannot wait any longer” to implement its Brexit contingency plan. The High Court, which has approved the move, says the move involves 5,000 clients. However, few jobs in London are expected to be affected.

• Saturday, November 10th 2018 - 06:05 UTC

  UK's economy best third quarter in two years: warm weather and the World Cup

  

  A spike in consumer spending driven by warm weather and England's surprise run to the semifinals of the soccer World Cup helped the British economy post its best growth in nearly two years during the third quarter, official figures showed on Friday.

• Saturday, September 29th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  British government ready to support a joint bid for the 2030 FIFA World Cup

  

  The British government says it would back a joint bid to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup in the UK and Ireland. The football associations of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland are considering putting forward a proposal to stage the tournament.

• Thursday, September 27th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

  Life expectancy growth in UK has halted: baby girls can reach 82.9 years and baby boys, 79.2

  

  Growth in life expectancy in the UK has come to a halt, new figures show. A girl born between 2015 and 2017 is expected to live until 82.9 years old – no change on the previous figure for 2014-16, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figure for baby boys born in 2015-17 is also unchanged, at 79.2 years.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Welsh voters now want to remain in the EU; 44% want a say in outcome of Brexit talks

  

  Some 44% of Welsh voters want a say on the outcome of the talks, polling for the People's Vote campaign found. Welsh voters backed quitting the European Union by 53% to 47%, but now 51% would vote to remain compared to 49%, the YouGov study for the group found. The usual margin of error for polling is three per cent.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 08:07 UTC

  UK and Chile agree to mutual cooperation in cyber defense

  

  The 16th Defense Staff Talks between United Kingdom and Chile took place on 13-14 September 2018 in Santiago at the Ministry of Defense. The Talks were led by the Undersecretary of Defense, Cristian de la Maza Riquelme, representing Chile and the Minister for the Armed Forces, Mark Lancaster, representing the United Kingdom.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 08:00 UTC

  Chile's latest export to England: burglars targeting wealthy homes

  

  A criminal gang which was flying burglars from Chile into the UK to target wealthy homes in the South East has been dismantled, police have said. Luxury items worth more than £1m were stolen by the thieves, who targeted hundreds of homes, then shipped some of the goods out of the country.

• Monday, August 27th 2018 - 07:50 UTC

  Falklands promoted the Islands and eco-tourism at Birdfair in England

  

  Falkland Islands Holidays, along with Falklands Conservation and the Falkland Islands Tourist Board were in attendance at the British Bird Watching Fair (Birdfair) August 17-19 held at Rutland Water in England.

• Thursday, July 5th 2018 - 08:10 UTC

  FIFA strongly rebukes Maradona's comments on the England/Colombia match

  

  FIFA says it “strongly rebukes” comments made by its ambassador Diego Maradona criticising American referee Mark Geiger's handling of England's win against Colombia in the World Cup round of 16 on Tuesday. It's the third controversy involving the Argentina great at the World Cup, which he has mostly attended as a VIP guest of FIFA.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  Volgograd invaded by flies and mosquitoes from nearby Volga river

  

  A plague of small flying insects have caused chaos for fans, locals and the media in the city of Volgograd where England and Tunisia played on Monday.