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The owner of Pinewood Studios Ltd., where movies including James Bond’s “Skyfall” and “The Dark Knight” were filmed, was denied approval to develop new studios and stages at a campus about 20 miles west of London after an earlier plan was rejected last year.
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Lawmakers from David Cameron’s Conservative Party voted against the government’s legislative program in a show of defiance over his policy toward the rest of Europe.
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The U.K.’s Conservative Education Secretary Michael Gove said that Nick Clegg’s opposition to child-care changes is due to an internal Liberal Democrat plot to unseat him as the party’s leader.
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Prime Minister David Cameron suggested he may use parts of the health budget to pay for social care, a sign that he is prepared to erode an area of spending he told voters he would protect.
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The leader of the opposition Labour Party, Ed Miliband, said U.K. government borrowing would rise to fund a temporary cut in value-added tax if he was in power now.
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Senior ministers in Prime Minister David Cameron’s government voiced caution after official data showed Britain avoided a triple-dip recession with stronger- than-expected growth in the first quarter.
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Verizon Communications Inc. has been briefing analysts on how much it would be willing to pay for Vodafone Plc’s stake in their wireless venture, increasing pressure on the U.K. company to return to the negotiating table, people familiar with the matter said.
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The U.K. proposed a new regulator for companies that own more than 500 pubs, aiming to ease what officials called abuses by the owners, who may see annual income from their tenants cut by 100 million pounds ($152 million).
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Prime Minister David Cameron is sidestepping British diplomats to push a plan to loosen ties with the European Union, instead encouraging his own lawmakers to promote his most ambitious foreign-policy initiative.
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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron rebuffed a call by his Liberal Democrat business secretary, Vince Cable, to loosen the government’s austerity program to spur economic growth.
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