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FTSE closes at near record high

(...) 5.9 per cent after winning a £1.2 billion contract with Telefonica’s UK O2 mobile phone business(...)

The British government’s controversial plans to legalise gay marriage cleared the House of Commons tonight despite efforts by Tory backbenchers to derail the legislation.
UK MPs vote to back gay marriage
  • UK
  • May 21, 2013, 20:09

The British government’s controversial plans to legalise gay marriage cleared the House of Commons tonight despite efforts by Tory backbencher(...)

File image Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria, UK. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
‘Very low’ risk from new UK nuclear plants

Britain’s nuclear power plant building programme poses only a “very low” risk to Ireland. That is the view of the Radiological Protectio(...)

Former British chancellor of the exchequer Nigel Lawson: argues that Britain should quit the single market altogether. Photograph: PA
Caught in shifting sands on Europe

(...) exploited if the UK withdraws from the EU. It is true that Norway and Switzerland are prosperous(...)

Full-year profits at Marks & Spencer fell to £665 million, their lowest level in four years. Photo: PA Wire
Marks & Spencer profits tumble

(...)-old firm, which serves 21 million shoppers a week from over 700 UK stores, said it made a profit before tax(...)

Greencore chief executive Patrick Coveney. The food company has reported a rise in first half profits. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
Greencore profits up 6.3%

(...) very challenging. In the UK, we have completed the Uniq integration with the restructuring of the(...)

Burberry, the UK’s largest luxury-goods maker, reported full-year profit that beat analysts’ estimates.
Burberry profit rises 14%

Burberry, the UK’s largest luxury-goods maker, reported full-year profit that beat analysts(...)

A screen displays a recent Dow Jones Industrial Average. For the last 18 Tuesdays, the average has risen every time
Stocktake: Rising risk of ‘melt-up’ in five-year US bull market

(...) previous record (15) set back in the 1920s. In the UK, Tuesdays have been bullish for some time, says(...)

Monica Huggett drives into music ‘with a sense of edginess, of danger’
An early music duo, and ‘Carmen’ by way of ‘Tallafornia’

(...) , which gets its UK stage première in the Royal Opera’s Linbury Theatre on June 14th, has won the composer(...)

From left: Geoffrey Vero, Dillis Miles, Bob Willard and Ed Costello, part of a group of more than 30 local Conservative Party members and former members who are calling on David Cameron to abandon attempts to redefine marriage, hand in a letter to Number 10 Downing Street. Photograph: PA Wire
Tory efforts to delay gay marriage plans defeated with help of Labour

Efforts by Conservative MPs to delay or change plans to legalise gay marriage in England and Wales were(...)

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