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CHARITIES ‘CONCERNED’ OVER LACK OF PROGRESS WITH RENTERS REFORM BILL – Charities urge Prime Minister to pass a bill to ban ‘no-fault’ evictions A group of 30 charities and non-profit organisations have urged the prime minister to pass a bill to ban “no-fault” evictions. The Renters Reform Bill would remove the right of landlords in England to evict tenants for no reason with only two months’ notice. Charities warned delays risk causing “more avoidable hardship and suffering” and a “greater cost to the taxpayer”. The government said the bill would resume progress in parliament shortly. The Conservatives promised “a better…

METRO BANK SEEKS BIDS WITHIN WEEKS FOR £3BN MORTGAGE BOOK – Bank wants bidders to submit offers at the beginning of next month Metro Bank has set a quickfire timetable for rivals to snap up a substantial chunk of its mortgage book. Reports understand Metro Bank wants bidders to submit offers at the beginning of next month, with Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, and NatWest Group all having an indicated interest. News of the timetable comes days after the high street bank said it had secured a £925m refinancing package, which involves the Colombian billionaire Jaime Gilinski Bacal becoming its majority…

RATCLIFFE WOULD PAY MORE THAN $1.5 BLN FOR 25% MAN UNITED STAKE – Ineos owner Jim Ratcliffe is looking to buy a stake in Manchester United Ineos Chair Jim Ratcliffe would pay over $1.5 billion for a 25% stake in Manchester United Plc were his bid for the iconic soccer club to be accepted by the Glazer family that controls it, a person familiar with the matter said. The terms of Ratcliffe’s bid, reported here for the first time, infer a valuation on Manchester United of close to $6.5 billion, excluding its net debt of more than $600 million, the…

Cardiac arrests that happened outside of hospitals spiked in 2021, according to a new U.S. study. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests were higher after the COVID-19 pandemic than before the pandemic, U.S. researchers found. They analyzed data from Seattle and King County in Washington state from the years 2018 to 2021. The dataset consisted of 13,081 patients, including 7,102 who were dead when emergency responders arrived and another 4,952 who were treated but died ahead of hospitalization or in the hospital. Compared to the prepandemic years, or 2018 and 2019, there were 19 percent more people who suffered out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in…

The government has increasingly used its powers to revoke the citizenship of hundreds of individuals in the last year, data show. A total of 316 people had their British citizenship removed on the basis of fraud or suspected terror links, the highest yearly number ever recorded. The 2022 figures make up a third of all deprivations issued by the Home Office since 2010. In those 12 years, 1,064 people had their UK citizen status removed, of which over 840 were owing to fraud. Deprivation orders on the basis of fraud are issued to people who obtained their citizenship through registration…

ISRAEL’S PARLIAMENT APPROVES NATIONAL EMERGENCY UNITY GOVERNMENT – Netanyahu determined to fight fight the war with Hamas in Gaza Israel’s parliament approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency unity government, including a number of centrist opposition lawmakers, to display its determination to fight the war with Hamas in Gaza. The government, approved after Saturday’s attack by the militant Islamist group Hamas that governs the Gaza Strip, underlines the suspension of normal political rules during one of the most serious crises in Israel’s history. Under the agreement, former Defence Minister Benny Gantz and members of his small centrist party will join Netanyahu’s…

AIR CANADA SUED OVER $20M GOLD AND CASH HEIST – Gold bars and cash worth millions stolen from Toronto’s airport A US-based security company has sued Air Canada over gold bars and cash worth millions that were stolen from Toronto’s airport in April. Brink’s International alleges the airline was “reckless” and had failed to prevent the theft. The goods, worth more than C$20m (£12m), had recently arrived on an Air Canada flight from Zurich to Toronto before they were stolen. The heist is one of the largest in Canada’s history. Among the items stolen were gold bars that weighed 400.19kg…

Children across Europe must receive at least one nutritious school meal a day if governments want to tackle rising obesity rates, prevent chronic illnesses and reduce social inequalities, according to a coalition of experts. Nearly a third of primary school-age children in Europe are either overweight or obese, while almost a quarter of children in the EU are at risk of poverty or social exclusion. With the cost of living crisis now stretching many families on the continent beyond breaking point, members of a four-year EU-funded initiative, focused on healthy eating, say action is urgently needed to ensure all European children can…

Scotland should still make it to Euro 2024 but qualification will have to wait for another day and another place. A point in Seville would have sent them through with two games to spare, but a belting second-half goal from Scott McTominay that seemed to have put them into the lead and within touching distance of the tournament was ruled out, the cruel, controversial and confusing verdict handed down by the VAR, after which their resistance was finally broken. “We’re disappointed because we came here to qualify, but we have a very realistic chance to win the two games and…

WALL STREET’S MAJOR INDEXES CLOSED HIGHER – Fed minutes show caution among policymakers that help fuel investor hopes that rates would stay steady Wall Street’s major indexes closed higher after Wednesday’s (October 11) choppy session with the release of minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s last meeting showing caution among policymakers that helped fuel investor hopes that rates would stay steady. The Fed pointed to uncertainties around the economy, oil prices, and financial markets as supporting “the case for proceeding carefully in determining the extent of additional policy firming that may be appropriate,” according to the minutes released on Wednesday…