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BRITISH GAS OWNERS CENTRICA REPORT RECORD PROFITS £3.3bn Was Recorded At The Company, Up From £948m In 2021 Centrica, the company that owns British Gas, has reported record profits for the 2022 financial year. Operating profits of £3.3bn were recorded at the company, up from £948m in 2021, and surpassing the firm’s previous highest ever yearly profit of £2.7bn, posted in 2012. Profit at the oil and gas producer has been helped by high energy prices. Wholesale gas costs had risen to new highs in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war. Supplies have been limited since it began, and the…

It is threatening to become a Premier League truism. When Manchester City face Arsenal, they always win. But never in a meeting as loaded as this. City’s 11th straight victory over Arsenal in the competition carried them above their opponents on goal difference at the top of the table, although they have played an extra game. As a statement of intent about a fifth title in six years, it was red hot. Arsenal were the better team in the first half, running on passion, showing character to recover from Kevin De Bruyne’s wonderful opener. It was Bukayo Saka who equalised with the…

KING CHARLES MEETS VOLUNTEERS SENDING AID TO TURKEY, SYRIA – Gathering items to send including sleeping bags And items of clothing King Charles met with volunteers in London on Tuesday who were collecting aid to be sent to earthquake hit Turkey and Syria. Last week the two countries were hit by devastating earthquakes which has left at least 37,000 people dead. Charles spoke with volunteers who were gathering items to send including sleeping bags and items of clothing. In Trafalgar Square, the British monarch spoke with a member of the White Helmets, a humanitarian organisation who have been involved in…

For the last few weeks Paris has been gripped by stories of superstar players wanting to leave this place. For an hour at the Parc des Princes it was easy to sympathise, as a Paris Saint-Germain team with Neymar and Lionel Messi installed as a walking-football front two produced a horribly constipated performance en route to a 1-0 defeat by Bayern Munich that threatens to deadhead their season before the end of February. The emir of Qatar was in Paris to watch this last-16 first leg, hotfooting it from Rome, and perhaps, who knows, with half an eye on opportunities in the…

Nicola Sturgeon is to quit as Scotland’s first minister in a shock decision. A source confirmed Sturgeon, who has been the country’s longest-serving first minister, will announce her resignation at 11am on Wednesday in Edinburgh. The Scottish National party leader has suffered a series of political setbacks recently, including the UK supreme court defeat of her plans for a fresh independence referendum and a damaging row over a double rapist being sent to a female jail after announcing she was a trans woman. It remains unclear when she will leave office, and she may announce a long process to allow her party,…

The European Commission is being sued over its refusal to release text messages between its president and the boss of Pfizer, which manufactured a coronavirus vaccine. Ursula von der Leyen and Albert Bourla exchanged personal messages, which the commission suggests may have been deleted, at the height of the pandemic. The commission and pharmaceutical firm bosses were locked in negotiations for billions of euros worth of jabs, while the EU faced a major shortfall in deliveries of the new AstraZeneca vaccine. Lawyers for The New York Times will argue in the EU’s top court that the failure to disclose the smartphone communications, dubbed…

An investigation into the origins of Covid-19 has been quietly shelved by the World Health Organisation (WHO), it has emerged. Since the start of the pandemic, there has been speculation that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China, which had been collecting and manipulating bat viruses. An initial inquiry by the WHO concluded in 2021 that Covid-19 emerged from an animal spillover event, but it was later shown that investigators had been forced to report a lab leak was unlikely to avoid arguments with China. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general, later acknowledged it had been premature to rule out a leak from laboratories in…

QATARI INVESTORS TO BID FOR MANCHESTER UNITED IN COMING DAYS – Qatar Sports Investments will reportedly bid around £6billion Qatari investors are preparing to make a bid to buy Premier League club Manchester United in the coming days, English newspapers have reportedl. The report added that the consortium will submit an initial bid for the club by the end of the week, and that officials from Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) are helping with preparations for the bid. All bids must be made before February 17 with the club’s U.S. Owners, the Glazer family, seeking around £6billion. Jim Ratcliffe’s company INEOS…

NUMBER OF DAYS LOST TO STRIKE ACTION IN 2022 HIGHEST SINCE 1989 The number of working days lost to strike action totalled 843,000 in December The number of working days lost to strike action totalled 843,000 in December, bringing the total number of strike days from June to December 2022 to 2,471,000, the highest since 1989, official figures show. There were 4,129,000 days lost to strike action in 1989 due to industrial action by rail workers and coal miners, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. The loss in days due to labour disputes in December is the highest since…

EU ECONOMY SET TO AVOID RECESSION BUT HEADWINDS PERSIST The improvement in expectations is largely due to rising natural gas reserves Both the European Union (EU) and the eurozone should narrowly avoid a technical recession, according to the European Commission’s Winter 2023 Economic Forecast published on Monday. The growth outlook for 2023 is raised to 0.8 percent for the EU and 0.9 percent for the eurozone, according to the document, which was presented by European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni. This is respectively 0.5 and 0.6 percentage points higher than in the Autumn Forecast. According to the Commission,”Both areas are…