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...worst flooding in 60 years unfurled across Britain in July, blackening medieval towns with power cuts, turning streets into gutters and paradoxically leaving some 350,000 people without running water. In Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, water spilled into the Norman abbey for the first time since 1760, as the town was transformed into an island...
...SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT In our story about the changing face of terrorism in Britain [July 16], we wrongly described Charles Shoebridge as a former counterterrorism officer in the British army. Although Shoebridge is a former army officer, his later work as a counterterrorism detective was in fact for Scotland Yard...
...Harry Potter” series in a class of its own. More than one journalist has compared the series to Charles Dickens’ “The Old Curiosity Shop,” published in serial form from 1840 to 1841. The last chapter arrived from Britain in November 1841, and New Yorkers crowded the docks to greet the ship, calling, “Is Little Nell dead...
...decide when inflation has been tamed by changes to the cost of borrowing; certain taxation levels for the next couple of years were set last March, and growth in government spending until 2011 has already been capped. The good news for Darling: Rising interest rates seem to be cooling Britain's housing market, where low-cost credit and a limited supply of homes have sent house prices skyward in recent years. The value of the average home reached $401,000 in May according to Halifax, a mortgage provider. That's almost three times the average in 1997. But with...
...number of new jobs is set to slip by two-thirds this year, according to the capital's Centre for Economics and Business Research. But despite the doom and gloom, there's still room enough for specialist sectors to grow handsomely. London's leading share of international markets means Britain's financial services sector should still grow by 4.7% this year, according to Ernst & Young. And that will surely make it into the Chancellor's speech...