Topic: London (England)

UK police arrest man in phone hacking probe

LONDON (Reuters) - British police said on Thursday they had arrested another suspect as part of their investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World newspaper, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.The 60-year-old man was held at an address in ...

Police arrest woman in News of the World phone hack probe

LONDON (Reuters) - London police said on Thursday they had arrested a woman as part of their investigation into a phone-hacking scandal at a top-selling newspaper belonging to Rupert Murdoch's New Corp group.The 39-year-old woman was arrested shortly before 7 a.m. (2 ...

London police arrest 20 ahead of royal wedding

Twenty squatters were arrested in raids across London on Thursday ahead of the royal wedding, police said.Officers swooped on thee addresses as part of an intelligence-led operation, taking the suspects into custody at various London police stations.One lawmaker described the raids as ...

Sun and rain forecast for UK's royal wedding

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britain's Met Office has forecast a mix of sunshine and showers in London on Friday, when hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line the streets for the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.Chief Forecaster ...

Royal wedding no tonic for fragile UK recovery

LONDON (Reuters) - Tourist trade may rocket and sales of memorabilia soar but Prince William's wedding to Kate Middleton is unlikely to provide the boost to Britain's economy that the government hopes.The Confederation of British Industry reckons an extra public holiday typically ...

Royal fans from far and wide descend on London

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - For some fans, no distance or discomfort is too great if the prize is a prime view of the wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton.Some 200 people were already camped out Thursday across the street from ...

Royal wedding apathy matches passion in Britain

LONDON (Reuters) - For every Briton who will tune in to watch Friday's royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, one definitely will not.That was the finding of a recent Ipsos MORI poll for Reuters which underlines how, for all the ...

Hordes gather for William and Kate wedding

Hundreds of thousands of spectators gathered in London on the eve of the biggest royal wedding for 30 years after Prince William and Kate Middleton took part in a low-key rehearsal for their big day.Well-wishers camped in front of the Westminster Abbey ...

Rain showers forecast on Britain's royal wedding day

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britain's Met Office has forecast rain showers in London on Friday, when hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line the streets for the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.Although the precise location and timing ...
As the famed Changing of the Guards ceremony takes place behind them at Buckingham Palace, two American girls debate what Kate Middleton will look like at her wedding in five days' time."I am excited about the dress. She will have something big", ...
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