Yahoo! News: World - Britain

BT warns on profits, shares tumble (AFP) Posted: 22 Jan 2009 03:58 AM CST AFP - British telecoms operator BT Group warned Thursday it would take a 340-million-pound (364-million-euro, 472-million- dollar) hit on its badly-performing Global Services division.

Expert: British spies couldn't stop Omagh bomb (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 02:52 PM CST AP - Britain's phone-tapping agency did not hear anything that could have stopped Irish Republican Army dissidents from devastating the Northern Ireland town of Omagh with a 1998 car bomb, an expert ruled Wednesday.

Pound knocked to nearly 25-year low versus dollar (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 12:58 PM CST AP - The British pound fell to a nearly 25-year low against the dollar and a record low against the yen Wednesday amid mounting fears about the British banking sector and expectations the Bank of England will start pumping money into the economy within weeks.

Royal Mail says profits to double (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 12:29 PM CST AFP - Postal operator Royal Mail, set to be part-privatised by the government, said Wednesday it was on track to nearly double its profits.

Ex-KGB agent buys London newspaper (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 12:20 PM CST AFP - Russian tycoon and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev took a majority stake in London's Evening Standard newspaper Wednesday, and vowed to back "free and independent" journalism in the struggling daily.

London newspaper to be sold to Russian tycoon (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 11:58 AM CST AP - When Alexander Lebedev was a KGB spy in London, it was a daily habit to read the capital's Evening Standard newspaper.

British watchdog rejects complaints about 'no God' ads (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 11:58 AM CST AFP - A poster campaign proclaiming "There's probably no God" does not breach advertising rules, a British watchdog ruled Wednesday after more than 300 people complained.

British media to face banking crisis inquiry (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 11:36 AM CST AP - An influential group of British lawmakers said Wednesday that they would hold an inquiry into the role of the media in the banking crisis and whether journalists should be partly gagged in periods of market volatility.

Brown withdraws expenses plan (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 11:02 AM CST AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown backed down on Wednesday on plans to prevent publication of MPs' expenses amid anger over the move.

British nuclear test veterans seek compensation in London (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 09:52 AM CST AFP - Veterans of British nuclear tests in the South Pacific launched a bid for compensation at London's High Court Wednesday, claiming they suffered health problems due to the 1950s tests.

Edmund de Rothschild dies at 93 (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 09:30 AM CST AP - Edmund de Rothschild, former chairman of N.M. Rothschild and Sons merchant bank and a noted horticulturist, has died at age 93.

British economy weakens sharply as recession looms (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 09:22 AM CST AFP - Britain's economy is weakening fast, official data showed on Wednesday, with more figures due this week expected to confirm the country has sunk into recession for the first time since 1991.

British lawmakers urge short-selling investigation (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 09:16 AM CST AP - A group of influential British lawmakers have written a letter to the financial regulator Wednesday expressing concern at last week's lifting of a ban on short selling of financial stocks, which was immediately followed by a sharp sell-off in leading bank shares.

British economy poised for sharp Q4 contraction (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 08:19 AM CST AP - Unemployment in Britain rose to nearly 2 million in November, fuelling speculation Wednesday that statistics later this week will show the economy contracting at its sharpest rate since the early days of Margaret Thatcher's government.

Main star of 'Slumdog' is Mumbai: British director (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 08:18 AM CST AP - The main star of "Slumdog Millionaire" is the sharply contrasting city of Mumbai, said its director Danny Boyle on Wednesday, describing the Indian financial capital wracked by mass poverty as extraordinary in all its extremes.

Court jails animal rights activists (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 07:58 AM CST AFP - Seven animal rights activists who conducted a six-year campaign against companies with links to an animal testing laboratory in Cambridge were on Wednesday sentenced to between four and 11 years in prison.

Quartet will talk to Hamas if it recognises Israel: Blair (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 07:39 AM CST AFP - Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair said on Wednesday the diplomatic Quartet would deal with Hamas if the Islamist movement accepts a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Nuclear test vets challenge Britian in court (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 07:18 AM CST AP - Nearly 1,000 veterans of Christmas Island nuclear tests in the 1950s are asking Britain's High Court to hear their case for compensation.

British animal-rights activists jailed in lab case (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2009 06:36 AM CST AP - Seven animal rights activists in Britain have been jailed for conspiring to blackmail companies linked to an animal testing lab.

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