James Cleverly suggested he was interested in buying a bespoke sportscar as he visited a manufacturer in Nottinghamshire. “Mrs Cleverly doesn’t need to know”, the Home Secretary joked when he asked Richard Hall, the managing director of Great British Sports Cars, how much one of the company’s cars would cost. The Nottinghamshire-based sports car company...
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Avanti West Coast says fleet overhaul means ‘much-improved travel experience’
Britain’s biggest train fleet refurbishment will give passengers “a much-improved travel experience”, according to Avanti West Coast. The operator said the 56th and final modernised Pendolino train has returned to service. The £117 million refurbishment project was carried out by manufacturer Alstom at its plant in Widnes, Cheshire. This has involved the installation of 25,000...
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Japan’s Emperor, Empress attend state banquet in UK | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attended a banquet at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday as part of their state visit to the United Kingdom. The state dinner was held by King Charles and Queen Camilla. Emperor Naruhito wore a medal of the Order of the Garter, which is the oldest and most senior order of...
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Minehunting exercise in Scottish waters is of vital importance – Ukrainian navy
The importance of a training operation in Scotland to help Ukraine and its allies find and dispose of mines in the Black Sea “cannot be underestimated”, a senior Ukrainian navy officer has said. Final preparations are underway ahead of the launch of Exercise Sea Breeze 2024, which this year aims to help Ukraine and its...
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Japan’s Emperor Naruhito reconnects with past in UK | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are on a state visit to the United Kingdom. On Monday, the Emperor visited a place he has developed a fondness for: the River Thames. He went to see the Thames Barrier, the flood control gates that have protected London for more than four decades. He studied the history...
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British Army chiefs planning biggest mass mobilisation exercise of reservists in 20 years
Military chiefs are planning the biggest mass mobilisation exercise of Britain’s Army reserve in 20 years in a move to evaluate the ‘deployment readiness’ of more than 10,000 ‘weekend warriors’. The move to prepare the UK’s reserve comes as the head of the British Army General Sir Patrick Sanders says the UK should take steps...
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Japan’s Emperor, Empress arrive in Britain | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako have arrived in Britain. This is their second goodwill trip abroad since Emperor Naruhito was enthroned in 2019. A government plane carrying the Imperial couple landed at an airport near London shortly after 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. The Emperor and Empress last visited Britain for the state funeral of...
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Japan’s Imperial couple visit Britain | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako have embarked on an 8-day state visit to Britain. The Emperor and Empress departed on a government plane from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Saturday. Crown Prince and Princess Akishino were among those seeing the Imperial couple off. The visit was initially scheduled for 2020 at the invitation of Queen...
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Nobody is confronting the great Remainer lie about Brexit
Eight years ago on Sunday, we went to vote in the Brexit referendum. Let’s not forget that most of our rulers never wanted it in the first place. It only happened because of the campaigning of Nigel Farage and Ukip and the determination of a bunch of Tory MPs like Sir Bill Cash. It became...
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ANALYSIS | Nigel Farage looks to Canada — and the 1993 Conservative wipeout — for inspiration in U.K. election campaign | CBC News
Rural Alberta may be a continent away from the faded British seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea, but Nigel Farage believes both places will be remembered for starting political revolutions. Already a familiar face to Britons, Farage has injected some drama into an otherwise staid British general election that the Labour Party under leader Keir Starmer appears well...
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D-Day veteran ‘would not fight for Britain as it is today’ – it’s ‘unrecognisable’
A D-Day veteran who wears nine medals including the rare Atlantic Star has said he “would not fight for the country as it is today”. Les Underwood, a Royal Navy gunner who was one of 160,000 men tasked with launching the liberation of Europe in June 1944, said he was now scared of being “stabbed...
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Labour pledge to ‘relight fire of regions’ with 10-year R&D budgets
Labour has suggested it could put in place long-term budgets for organisations which have helped trace the ancestry of dogs to ancient wolves, developed the DragonFire laser weapon, and started work on a lung cancer vaccine. The party’s deputy leader Angela Rayner promised to “relight the fire of our regions” with 10-year budgets for research...