Category: UK
FTSE group Ashtead to shift primary listing to New York in blow to UK
Ashtead Group, the £27bn construction rental company, plans to shift its primary listing to New York in the latest blow to the London stock market. [more…]
Six charged with being members of banned PKK group in London
Six people have been charged with being part of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) after an investigation by counter-terrorism police. Turkan Ozcan, 59, Mazlum [more…]
Thames Water will run out of cash by March without £3bn emergency funding
Thames Water will run out of cash by March next year if it fails to secure court approval for a £3bn financial lifeline, the troubled [more…]
Hundreds of trials derailed by failure to get defendants to court on time
Hundreds of trials are being derailed because prison vans fail to transport the defendant to court on time, figures show. A Guardian analysis found 207 [more…]
Abandon some jury trials or fund crisis-hit system, former chief justice says
Ministers should consider abandoning jury trials for some crown court cases unless they properly fund a justice system “in serious crisis”, the former lord chief [more…]
Government seeks Whitehall ‘startup’ culture with tech worker secondments
Tech employees will be seconded to work in Whitehall for year-long stints to help the UK government function “more like a startup” under plans to [more…]
Cleanup begins after damage brought by Storm Darragh, which left two men dead
A cleanup operation is under way across the UK as communities survey the damage brought by Storm Darragh, which killed two people over the weekend. [more…]
Police offer £50k reward to find killer of Greater Manchester schoolgirl in 1984
Police have offered a £50,000 reward as a new appeal for information is launched over the murder of a schoolgirl in Greater Manchester 40 years [more…]
Keir Starmer welcomes collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s ‘barbaric regime’
Keir Starmer has welcomed the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s “barbaric regime” in Syria and called for civilians to be protected after rebel forces took control [more…]
Undercover officer denies role in arson attack on Debenhams in 1987
An undercover police officer has denied that he set fire to a high street department store while masquerading as an animal rights campaigner, a public [more…]
