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The pound plunged on the announcement, falling more than 1.1% against the dollar before recovering to about 0.6% down at the close of trading, at 1.244. It was 0.3% down against the euro at 1.199.
The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency .
The Trafford Centre shopping complex in Manchester was sold for £1.6 billion in 2011 in the largest property sale in British history. [198] Notable real estate companies in the United Kingdom include British Land, Landsec and the Peel Group. The UK property market boomed for the seven years up to 2008, and in some areas property trebled in ...
The pound was down 0.1 per cent against the dollar on Friday morning, with Sterling valued at $1.229. Rachel Reeves facing ‘difficult new decisions’, ex-Bank of England deputy says 09:14 ...
The British pound had faced immense pressure at the start of the month as investors heavily sold British government bonds and the currency in a move that reignited concerns about Britain's finances.
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps , brought into practice in 1949 after World War II .
The pound is the main unit of sterling, [4] [c] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [7] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. [4] Sterling is the world's oldest currency in continuous use since its inception. [8]
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