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LONDON, July 24 (UPI) -- An unexpectedly steep fall in Britain's gross domestic product and a pickup in German business confidence: These contrasting end-of-week headlines for Europe's two largest economies highlight the head-scratching problems faced by government and independent forecasters in assessing the real state of Europe's economy in mid-2009.
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LONDON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A Cabinet minister in Britain told his staff when they should serve him coffee and soup, among other personal expectations, his memo to them reveals.
LONDON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a reshuffle of his Cabinet Friday with the biggest change the return of Peter Mandelson as secretary for business.
LONDON, June 25 (UPI) -- The British Home Office is adopting a series of visa reforms that include punishing residents whose overseas relatives stay too long.
LONDON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- An illegal immigrant had access to the British Houses of Parliament for nearly two months prior to finally being apprehended this month.
LONDON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A motion in the British parliament to force families to pay $2,000 bonds to sponsor foreign relatives into England faces criticism for alleged discrimination.
LONDON, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- British authorities have begun a pilot project at London's Gatwick airport to use fingerprints to check the identity of some foreigners arriving in the country.
LONDON, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- The almost 6 million British patients who fail to keep hospital appointments each year are costing the government about $1 billion.
