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Media playback is unsupported on your device Any transitional arrangement with the EU after Brexit must end by the time of the next election, Liam Fox has said.The international trade secretary told the BBC he had no ideological objection to interim arrangements to

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Boots has said it is “truly sorry” for its response to calls to cut the cost of one of its morning-after pills.The pharmaceutical company was criticised after telling the British Pregnancy Advisory Service

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Train firms could be forced to reduce first class seats on busy commuter lines to ease overcrowding, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has said. He said people will see “less first class in the future” with busy suburban trains having “one

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San Diego’s Comic-Con International, happening this weekend, is an annual fiesta of costumes, comic books and celebrities that sits at the centre of a multi-billion dollar industry. From a gathering of less than 300 people in 1970, the event has morphed into an

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“When people ask me what I’d have been if I’d not been a cricket player, I say… a millionaire,” laughs Lynne Thomas, who 44 years ago helped England to victory in the first ever cricket World Cup. The women’s game beat the men onto

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Media playback is unsupported on your device The UK government has announced plans to introduce drone registration and safety awareness courses for owners of the small unmanned aircraft. It will affect anyone who owns a drone which weighs more than 250 grams

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Price comparison website MoneySuperMarket has been fined £80,000 ($103,000) by the Information Commissioner’s Office for sending more than seven million emails to people who had opted out of receiving its communications. The firm said it apologised

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Shares in UK payments company Paysafe jumped 6.8% after it received a £2.9bn takeover approach from a group of private equity firms.Paysafe said a consortium containing Blackstone and CVC Capital Partners had made a 590p-a-share offer.The approach comes amid a wave of

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Bank of America has chosen Dublin as its new base to service EU clients as part of its Brexit contingency plans.It is the first US bank to confirm the Irish capital as its preferred site.Citigroup has picked Frankfurt as the base for its EU trading operations, and

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More than 20% of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mining revenue is being lost due to corruption and mismanagement, a campaign group says.According to a Global Witness report, the money is being distributed through corrupt networks linked to President Joseph

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