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Oct 24, 2011

London anti-capitalist protesters pitch tents at new camp

LONDON (Reuters) – Anti-capitalist protesters set up a second campsite in London’s financial district on Saturday, after a first encampment they established a week ago forced St Paul’s Cathedral to close.

“We want to be good neighbours,” said protester Kai Wargalla. “We had reached the limit of our capacity at St Paul’s and the new camp takes the pressure off that site.”

Oct 23, 2011

UK’s Cameron faces party rebellion over Europe

LONDON, Oct 24 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David
Cameron faces the biggest rebellion of his premiership on Monday
when parliament debates calls for a referendum on Britain’s
membership of the European Union.

Although the vote in parliament carries no legal weight, it
is being seen as a test of the Conservative Party leader’s
authority and risks raising tensions within his ruling coalition
with the pro-Europe Liberal Democrats.

Oct 23, 2011

Cameron to face down Europe rebels

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron will refuse to back down in a showdown next week with rebel lawmakers who want a public vote on whether Britain should leave the European Union, ministers said on Sunday.

Cameron, who opposes a referendum on Britain’s EU membership, faces the biggest rebellion of his premiership on Monday when parliament votes on an issue that has caused deep divisions in his centre-right party for decades.

Oct 23, 2011

Britain’s Cameron to face down Europe rebels

LONDON, Oct 23 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David
Cameron will refuse to back down in a showdown next week with
rebel lawmakers who want a public vote on whether Britain should
leave the European Union, ministers said on Sunday.

The Conservative leader, who opposes a referendum on
Britain’s EU membership, faces the biggest rebellion of his
premiership on Monday when parliament votes on an issue that has
caused deep divisions in his centre-right party for decades.

Oct 22, 2011

London anti-capitalist protesters pitch tents at new camp

LONDON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Anti-capitalist protesters set up
a second campsite in London’s financial district on Saturday,
after a first encampment they established a week ago forced St
Paul’s Cathedral to close.

“We want to be good neighbours,” said protester Kai
Wargalla. “We had reached the limit of our capacity at St Paul’s
and the new camp takes the pressure off that site.”

Oct 17, 2011

UK 2011 growth forecast cut to 0.9 percent – ITEM Club

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s economy has stalled and will grow less than expected this year, despite the Bank of England’s latest injection of 75 billion pounds to try to stimulate a faltering recovery, forecasters said on Monday.

The Ernst & Young ITEM Club, which bases its quarterly report on finance ministry models, downgraded its 2011 GDP forecasts to 0.9 percent from the 1.4 percent it predicted three months ago.

Oct 16, 2011

2011 growth forecast cut to 0.9 percent

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s economy has stalled and will grow less than expected this year, despite the Bank of England’s latest injection of 75 billion pounds to try to stimulate a faltering recovery, forecasters said on Monday.

The Ernst & Young ITEM Club, which bases its quarterly report on finance ministry models, downgraded its 2011 GDP forecasts to 0.9 percent from the 1.4 percent it predicted three months ago.

Oct 14, 2011

Oliver Letwin’s rubbish gaffe fuels Cameron’s woes

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron’s government faced new embarrassment on Friday after a senior policy adviser was found to have thrown dozens of official papers into public rubbish bins.

Oliver Letwin, a Cabinet Office minister and policy chief in the Conservative Party, was photographed by a newspaper tossing more than 100 documents into bins during morning walks around a park close to parliament.

Oct 13, 2011

Slough – where BlackBerry problems started

SLOUGH, England (Reuters) – The closest most people can get to where millions of BlackBerrys stopped working is a grey office block, over the road from a discount golf superstore and a mobile hamburger van, in the town of Slough, an hour’s drive from London.

Inside the three-storey building, engineers have been racing against the clock to fix an outage that left customers on five continents without email or instant messaging for days. This is the European headquarters of Research in Motion, the Canadian company that makes the smartphones.

Oct 13, 2011

Slough: UK town where BlackBerry problems started

SLOUGH, England (Reuters) – The closest most people can get to where millions of BlackBerrys stopped working is a grey office block, over the road from a discount golf superstore and a mobile hamburger van, in the town of Slough, an hour’s drive from London.

Inside the three-storey building, engineers have been racing against the clock to fix an outage that left customers on five continents without email or instant messaging for days. This is the European headquarters of Research in Motion, the Canadian company that makes the smartphones.