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Tag: United Kingdom

  • Wednesday, February 21st 2018 - 09:19 UTC

    Brexit strategy suggestion to Theresa May from 62 Conservative MPs

    Mrs May and the government have been under pressure to spell out in detail what they want the UK's future partnership with the EU to look like.

    More than 60 Conservative MPs have signed a letter to Theresa May making a series of “suggestions” about the government's Brexit strategy. The letter from the European Research Group says the UK should be free to negotiate and sign trade deals with other countries as soon as it leaves.

  • Tuesday, February 20th 2018 - 09:55 UTC

    Unearthing Corbyn's past and contacts with Czech intelligence: “ridiculous smear”, says Labour

    Asked about claims a Czech intelligence officer met and tried to recruit Mr Corbyn during the Cold War, PM May said MPs must “account” for past actions.

    Labor party leader Jeremy Corbyn should be “open and transparent” about his alleged contacts with a Communist spy during the 1980s, Theresa May has suggested. Asked about claims a Czech intelligence officer met and tried to recruit Mr Corbyn during the Cold War, she said MPs must “account” for past actions.

  • Tuesday, February 20th 2018 - 09:20 UTC

    Chickens didn't turn up and some 450 KFC outlets had to close in UK

    Last week, the fried chicken chain switched its delivery contract to DHL, which blamed “operational issues” for the supply disruption.

    KFC has closed more than half of its 900 UK outlets after delivery problems meant they ran out of chicken. Last week, the fried chicken chain switched its delivery contract to DHL, which blamed “operational issues” for the supply disruption. It was unclear when the delivery problems would be rectified, a KFC spokesperson said.

  • Tuesday, February 20th 2018 - 07:14 UTC

    Falklands' second commercial air link invitation delivered to Uruguay

    Argentine ambassador Mario Barletta, foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa and British Chargé d'affairs Rossa Commane at the letter delivery ceremony

    Representatives from Argentina and the United Kingdom formally delivered on Monday, to the Uruguayan foreign minister a letter jointly issued by the two governments requesting assistance in contacting local airlines and inviting them to communicate their interest in establishing a new weekly scheduled air service to and from the Falkland Islands.

  • Monday, February 19th 2018 - 09:33 UTC

    Falklands conflict: Sir Henry Greald Elliot, an involuntary trigger

    Gerald Elliot was head of Christian Salvesen when it signed a deal with Argentine scrap merchant Constantino Davidoff, to remove machinery from South Georgia.

    Sir Gerald Henry Elliot, businessman and philanthropist died, 28 January 2018 in Edinburgh. Gerald Elliot was managing director, and later chairman, of the Edinburgh shipping company Christian Salvesen when it signed a deal with an Argentine scrap merchant, Constantino Davidoff, to have machinery removed from some disused whaling stations it had on the island of South Georgia.

  • Saturday, February 17th 2018 - 09:22 UTC

    Merkel “curious” about UK lack of clarity with Brexit; PM May speech in Munich

    PM Theresa May said the UK government would set out further details on its Brexit negotiating position in the “coming weeks”

    Angela Merkel has said that she is not “frustrated” by Britain's lack of clarity in Brexit, but is still “curious” about what the UK government actually wants to achieve in negotiations.

  • Saturday, February 17th 2018 - 02:06 UTC

    Falklands' second weekly commercial air link talks take off, and should crystallize by next October

    MLA Dr Barry Elsby said it was a very positive step forward for the Falklands, since “the additional flight will help us to improve our links with the world at large”

    The United Kingdom and Argentina, following on the September 2016 joint communiqué to establish additional air links with the Falkland Islands, jointly announced on Friday that third country airlines interested in such operations will be contacted. It is expected that by the end of February the commercial process will be initiated, led by the Falkland Islands, and sometime next October the new weekly air link, with a monthly call in Argentina, will become operational.

  • Friday, February 16th 2018 - 10:07 UTC

    Theresa May flies to Berlin to meet Merkel, ahead of crucial speech on Saturday

    The UK is under pressure to reveal more detail about the final relationship it wants with the EU

    Theresa May is due to hold talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel as she seeks to make progress on negotiating Brexit. The PM will travel on Friday to Berlin for the meeting at the Chancellery. It comes a day ahead of a speech on Saturday in which she is expected to set out the “security partnership” she wants to maintain with the EU.

  • Friday, February 16th 2018 - 09:53 UTC

    Proposal to give £10,000 per year to every UK citizen under 55

    Scotland is already piloting UBI schemes in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife and North Ayrshire.

    The United Kingdom government should give £10,000 per year to every citizen under 55, a report suggests. The Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactrurers and Commerce (RSA) says it could pave the way to everyone getting a basic state wage. The Labour Party has also said it is looking into similar arguments for a Universal Basic Income (UBI).

  • Wednesday, February 14th 2018 - 09:58 UTC

    British Judge refuses to halt legal proceedings against Assange

    Assange said on Twitter he had three months to appeal the ruling. He said the judge’s ruling contained “significant factual errors” which he did not spell out

    A British judge refused on Tuesday to halt legal proceedings against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for jumping bail and fleeing to the Ecuadorean embassy in London in June 2012. The ruling leaves Assange, 46, in a legal and diplomatic impasse, with no way out of the embassy where he has lived for almost six years, unless he decides to face the prospect of arrest by British police.