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MET OFFICE ISSUES SNOW AND ICE WARNINGS FOR UK – Told to prepare for ‘Hazardous Conditions’ Yellow weather warnings have been issued with snow falling in parts of the UK and ice forecast which could lead to “hazardous conditions”. The Met Office has said roads and railways are likely to be affected, with the warnings issued until Thursday morning which cover parts of Scotland and northeast England. Snow has already fallen in northern England with North Yorkshire Police on Wednesday warning motorists of road closures “because of snow and ice”. The A169 is currently closed at White Way Heads/Saltergate Moor,…

WALL STREET ENDS LOWER AMID CYBER MONDAY – Online shopping deals expected to entice shoppers to spend a record $12 billion U.S. stocks edged lower with investors taking a post-Thanksgiving pause as the holiday shopping season kicked in to high gear and retailers lured bargain hunters with Cyber Monday deals. All three major U.S. stock indexes ended the session modestly lower. Online shopping deals as part of Cyber Monday are expected to entice shoppers to spend a record $12 billion, according to Adobe Analytics, in the latest upbeat sign regarding the health of the American consumer, whose spending is responsible…

BAD REFEREEING IMPACTING ‘LIVELIHOODS & REPUTATIONS’ SAYS O’NEIL – Wolves boss Gary O’Neil speaks after 3-2 Fulham defeat Wolves manager Gary O’Neil has said bad refereeing decisions are affecting “reputations” and “livelihoods” after his team was on the wrong end of video assistant referee calls in Monday’s 3-2 defeat at Fulham. O’Neil said referee Michael Salisbury admitted the decision to award the first of two penalties against Wolves was an error, and believes four big decisions went against the visitors. Speaking to reporters Gary O’Neil said “”Maybe tonight has finally turned me against VAR. The impact that you are having…

MIGRATION LEVELS TOO HIGH, SAYS UK PM SUNAK Illegal migration hit a record of 745,000 last year Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the number of migrants to the UK was ‘too high’ on Friday after net migration broke record figures for 2022. Annual net migration to the United Kingdom hit a record of 745,000 last year and has stayed at elevated levels, official figures out last week have shown. Speaking from a car factory in northern England, Sunak said the country needed to bring the number down to ‘more sustainable levels.’ High levels of legal migration have for more than…

SUNAK CANCELS MEETING WITH GREEK PM IN ROW OVER PARTHENON SCULPTURES The British Museum has always rejected returning the parts in its collection Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis accused his British counterpart Rishi Sunak of cancelling a scheduled meeting in London on today in a row over the status of the Parthenon Sculptures. Athens has repeatedly asked the British Museum to permanently return the 2,500-year-old sculptures that British diplomat Lord Elgin removed from the Parthenon temple in the early 19th century when he was ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. “I express my annoyance that the British Prime Minister cancelled our…

The penultimate global service in this Year of the Prolific Church will take airwaves on Sunday, December 3rd, 2023 and will commence at 3 pm GMT+1. The service will be broadcast live to a global congregation via Loveworld UK, all LoveWorld TV Networks,and on other ministry social media platforms. Ultimately God’s Word and direction for the month will be revealed to God’s people through the man of God, Pastor Chris.  Spread the news everywhere and prayerfully prepare your heart to receive God’s Word!

Rishi Sunak agreed to a series of measures with Suella Braverman to bring down migration to the UK, including raising the minimum salary threshold to £40,000, according to reports on Monday of a verbal pact with the former home secretary. While No 10 has denied any formal plan, Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, hinted on Monday that the salary threshold could be increased anyway as part of “much, much tougher measures” being drawn up. Braverman, who was sacked by Sunak earlier this month, has repeatedly threatened to release documents showing he had agreed to policy demands on migration before she backed him to become…

RISING LIVING COSTS WEAKEN CONSUMER SENTIMENT DURING BLACK FRIDAY The anticipated UK spend for 2023 would be £5.6 bn Rising living costs pushed up by higher interest rates are weakening Britain’s consumer sentiment during the traditional year-end shopping season this year, said Jasmine Birtles, a British consumer industry expert, on Friday. The decision made by the Bank of England, the central bank of Britain, to raise interest rates to a decade-high to curb the persistently high inflation has resulted in suppressed economic activities. British consumers are now less willing to spend even when retailers have stepped up their promotional efforts…

U.S. tech giant Palantir has rejected concerns after the firm was awarded a contract worth hundreds of millions of pounds for a new NHS data platform. The NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) will aim to make it easier for health and care organisations to work together and provide better services to patients. It was announced earlier this week that a group led by Palantir had secured the £330 million contract to provide the new shared software system. But concerns have been raised by MPs about how patient data will be used and Palantir’s involvement in the deal. Louis Mosley, Palantir’s…

Sometimes it is easy to be led by the scoreboard. This was a pulsating battle between two clubs energised by smart managerial appointments and there is a temptation to argue that the turning point came when Aston Villa somehow went in level at half-time, allowing Unai Emery to bend the game to his will with a double substitution that gave a previously rampant Tottenham Hotspur more questions to answer during the second half. It was proactive management from Emery, who was too cute to be fooled by Pau Torres hauling Villa level in the seventh minute of added time. Doing nothing would…