Buoyant FTSE 100 at five-month high | Business

London’s leading shares rose for the eighth session in a row yesterday as a wave of vaccine optimism continued to wash over the Square Mile. Energy was the top-performing sector as oil prices rose again after producers backed Opec’s curb on output The FTSE 100 rose 85.25 points, or 1.35 …

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Royal Navy warship monitors Russian ships in UK waters

A Royal Navy warship has been monitoring two Russian ships in UK waters off Scotland. Patrol ship HMS Tyne has kept close watch on Viktor Leonov, an intelligence-gathering ship, and her supporting tanker Sergey Osipov. They have been sailing around the Moray Firth, where they sheltered from Storm Aiden when …

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