Law360, London (January 1, 2020, 12:03 PM GMT) — The City is bracing for change over the next year as Britain edges closer to leaving the European Union, with upcoming regulatory shifts like new regimes for digital currencies, a new benchmark interest rate and stricter accounting rules after a string …
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This year will see the Olympics head to Tokyo and with it, a new coin from the Royal Mint. It has unveiled several new coin designs which will appear throughout 2020, with the most notable one commemorating Team GB. However, in order to get access to obtain the coin – which …
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Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott’s privately-educated son, 28, is charged with 11 offences including exposing himself and attacks on police and NHS staff James Abbott-Thompson appeared at Thames Magistrates Court on Tuesday Charged with 11 new offences including 9 assaults – most on police and medics He also faces count …
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The Princess Royal has expressed her ‘profound admiration’ for midwives in a letter to mark the start of a year-long celebration of the profession. Princess Anne, 69, wrote to the Royal College of Midwives in London on the eve of 2020, a year which has been designated by the World …
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Humanity risks irreparably damaging the Earth with climate change, Prince William warned last night. His dramatic intervention came as Britain recorded its hottest December day and unprecedented wildfires tore across drought-stricken Australia. William said the Earth was at a ‘tipping point’ and humans had just ten years to save the …
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Britain’s Princess Anne talks to guests during a reception at Buckingham Palace, as NATO leaders gather to mark 70 years of the alliance, in London Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019. (Yui Mok/Pool Photo via AP, File) LONDON (AP) — Being a member of the British royal family isn’t the easiest job …
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Video Included The United States deposited with the United Kingdom its acceptance of the Agreement Concerning the Shipwrecked Vessel Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic, thus bringing into force this agreement. The British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 14, 1912, after hitting an iceberg. Of the estimated …
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And so ends another quiet year in politics… 🙃 I ended 2018 by describing it as a year that ‘delivered some of the strangest, most bizarre, comical and concerning political moments of recent history.’ I think that maybe, just maybe, 2019 might have topped that. Ok, fair, we didn’t see the UK …
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have experienced a busy year after clocking up almost 180 days in total carrying out official royal engagements. Highlights of 2019 for the couple included a successful tour of Pakistan in October, Kate spending time shadowing midwives from Kingston Hospital’s maternity unit and William …
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The royal family’s decade has been one of major milestones with Elizabeth II becoming the longest reigning monarch in history and the Duke of Edinburgh retiring after decades of royal service. Philip turned 90 in 2011 and then came the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee – marking her 60 years on the …
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