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• Strictly host Tess Daly among those to be honoured at Windsor Castle

  12-11-2025 01:02 via standard.co.uk
  
  Daly, who presented the show for 21 years before announcing her departure last month, was made an MBE for services to broadcasting.
  
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• Teacher ballot on strike action to open over contact time dispute

  12-11-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Scottish Government is ‘disappointed’ with the ballot opening, a spokesman said.
  
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• Police issue £2,500 urgent warning to Londoners with ‘dodgy’ Amazon Fire TV sticks

  12-11-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Detective Chief Inspector Emma Warbey vowed a crackdown on illegal streamers in the capital
  
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• ‘Nice to be free’ says Palestinian brewer after trip to Glasgow to launch beer

  12-11-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  Brewmaster Madees Khoury said many people she spoke to were surprised to learn that people drank alcohol in Palestine.
  
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• Law change set to allow AI testing to prevent creation of child sex abuse images

  12-11-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Reports of AI-generated child sexual abuse material have more than doubled in the past year.
  
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• Keir Starmer to face PMQs amid claims of potential challenge to his leadership

  12-11-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister will face MPs after a briefing war emerged on Tuesday night in an attempt to see off supposed challenges to his authority.
  
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• Prime Minister could face leadership challenge after Budget, say Labour insiders

  11-11-2025 23:34 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader is increasingly concerned about his party’s dip in support which may result in serious losses at next year’s local elections
  
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• Thousands of NHS staff redundancies to go ahead after funding agreed

  11-11-2025 23:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  The NHS will be permitted to overspend its budget this year to pay for redundancies, recouping the costs further down the line.
  
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• Streeting denies plot to oust Starmer amid reports of potential coup

  11-11-2025 23:20 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s loyalists within Downing Street are said to fear his job could be under threat, according to several news outlets.
  
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• Man charged after 'attempting to travel to Syria to join IS'

  11-11-2025 23:04 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Sutton man was allegedly planning to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State
  
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• Raheem Sterling confronts burglars with knife as Chelsea player's house broken into again

  11-11-2025 22:47 via standard.co.uk
  
  Masked men reportedly broke into the Chelsea footballer’s home shortly before the west London club played Wolves
  
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• King hugs Second World War veteran, 105, at Windsor remembrance reception

  11-11-2025 22:19 via standard.co.uk
  
  Yavar Abbas moved the King and Queen to tears earlier this year by thanking the royal couple for attending a VJ Day event despite health issues.
  
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• Moment ‘bitcoin queen’ fraud arrested in her bed as she’s jailed over £5bn stash

  11-11-2025 21:56 via standard.co.uk
  
  Zhimin Qian and Seng Hok Ling were sentenced following a multibillion-pound fraudulent Bitcoin scheme
  
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• Moment 'bitcoin queen' arrested in her bed as she's jailed for fraud

  11-11-2025 21:40 via standard.co.uk
  
  Zhimin Qian and Seng Hok Ling were sentenced following a multibillion-pound fraudulent Bitcoin scheme
  
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• Andrew to close business behind platform which helps entrepreneurs

  11-11-2025 21:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  The former prince claimed it had seen 3,000 jobs created.
  
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• Virgin Atlantic passenger who threatened to rape stewardess has sentence tripled

  11-11-2025 20:13 via standard.co.uk
  
  The incident was so shocking it left his victim ‘traumatised’ and off work for 14 months
  
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• Nandy sets out plans for BBC charter review in wake of Trump crisis

  11-11-2025 19:50 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Culture Secretary addressed the matter in the House of Commons.
  
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• Government to reconsider compensation for Waspi women

  11-11-2025 19:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  It was announced last year that women born in the 1950s who were affected by the increase in the pension age would not be compensated
  
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• Londoners could benefit from £5.5bn crypto stash seized from fraudster

  11-11-2025 19:31 via standard.co.uk
  
  Zhimin Qian was jailed for 11 years after scamming more than 128,000 people and storing the funds in Bitcoin
  
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• Heathrow Airport set for disruption this weekend as two major train routes shut down

  11-11-2025 18:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  Travellers using the airport on the weekend of Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 November have been warned to expect disruptions
  
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• Living In A Box singer Richard Darbyshire dies aged 65

  11-11-2025 18:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  Former bandmates Marcus Vere and Anthony ‘Tich’ Critchlow remembered him as ‘an incredible talent’.
  
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• Royal Ballet and Opera faces 'dynamic pricing' backlash - as London tickets for Wagner's Ring priced at £415

  11-11-2025 18:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  The tickets are the most expensive on sale by a publicly subsidised performing arts company in the UK
  
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• Aldi and Lidl issue urgent food recall on products - with one containing glass

  11-11-2025 18:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  The two budgets supermarkets are urging customers to be wary
  
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• Queen welcomes Booker Prize-winning author at Clarence House

  11-11-2025 18:10 via standard.co.uk
  
  Camilla congratulated David Szalay and the shortlisted authors during a special reception.
  
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• Police brace for clashes as protesters and counter-protesters set for Bob Vylan north London gig

  11-11-2025 18:10 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Metropolitan Police has placed restrictions on the planned protests to prevent disorder
  
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• United Airlines stewardess ten times the alcohol limit after downing mini bottles of vodka on flight to Heathrow

  11-11-2025 18:04 via standard.co.uk
  
  The air stewardess was said to be going through a hard time
  
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• UK halts some intelligence sharing with US over drug boat strikes – report

  11-11-2025 18:04 via standard.co.uk
  
  No 10 did not deny reports that officials are concerned over the legality of the Trump administration’s controversial campaign in the Caribbean.
  
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• Wrongful releases of 91 prisoners since April is ‘shocking’ – No 10

  11-11-2025 17:54 via standard.co.uk
  
  The data, released by the Ministry of Justice on Tuesday, shows 91 accidental releases took place between April 1 and October 31 this year.
  
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• 100 arrests made since serious rioting flared in Ballymena

  11-11-2025 17:54 via standard.co.uk
  
  A senior officer said investigations into the violence were continuing.
  
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• Prevent ‘very ineffective’ in dealing with political extremism – Dominic Grieve

  11-11-2025 17:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  A review found that counter-terrorism measures including the law used to ban Palestine Action and Prevent are being used too widely.
  
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• 'I feel betrayed': Personal trainer to sue Sweaty Betty over body-positivity slogan

  11-11-2025 17:19 via standard.co.uk
  
  Georgina Cox claims Sweaty Betty has continued to use her viral slogan ‘Wear The Damn Shorts’ despite her issuing a cease and desist notice
  
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• NHS manager who raped girl, 12, after Snapchat grooming jailed for 28 years

  11-11-2025 17:16 via standard.co.uk
  
  Self-professed ‘monster’ Paul Lipscombe sexually abused and incited six girls while employed by an NHS trust in Coventry.
  
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• Missing Walkers discontinued crisps? Aldi adds two 'lovely' new flavours to satisfy the cravings

  11-11-2025 17:12 via standard.co.uk
  
  There is a festive twist for one of the new flavours
  
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• Listening to hypnosis techniques can reduce hot flushes, research suggests

  11-11-2025 17:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Researchers writing in the journal Jama Network Open said the findings were clinically significant.
  
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• Fraudster jailed after UK's largest cryptocurrency seizure worth £5.5bn

  11-11-2025 16:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  Zhimin Qian and Seng Hok Ling were sentenced following a multibillion-pound fraudulent Bitcoin scheme
  
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• Dame Jilly Cooper died in hospital after fall at home, inquest told

  11-11-2025 16:12 via standard.co.uk
  
  The 88-year-old author was found with a serious head injury at her Gloucestershire home.
  
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• Chinese fraudster involved in largest UK cryptocurrency seizure jailed

  11-11-2025 16:07 via standard.co.uk
  
  Zhimin Qian and her accomplice Seng Hok Ling were sentenced over the roles they played in a multibillion-pound fraudulent Bitcoin scheme.
  
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• Three prisoners a week set free by mistake since April, new figures show

  11-11-2025 16:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  An average of three prisoners a week have been wrongly set free in the last seven months
  
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• Starmer Government backtracks after telling BBC to apologise to Trump over 'fake news' storm

  11-11-2025 15:58 via standard.co.uk
  
  No10 declines to repeat comments from a minister telling the Corporation to say sorry to the US president over its mistake in editing one of his speeches
  
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• Boy, 5, in critical condition after 'wall falls on him at London crazy golf course'

  11-11-2025 15:58 via standard.co.uk
  
  The five-year-old boy had been at a birthday party when he was critically injured, according to reports
  
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• Bereaved mother demands change after NHS trust fined over ‘death trap’ ward

  11-11-2025 15:47 via standard.co.uk
  
  North East London NHS Foundation Trust was fined £565,000 plus £200,000 costs after being found guilty of breaching health and safety.
  
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• Elizabeth Line to be completely closed for two days - when and why?

  11-11-2025 15:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  The line will be closed this coming weekend for improvements
  
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• More than 90 prisoners freed by mistake since April this year, figures show

  11-11-2025 15:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  It comes as Justice Secretary David Lammy is set to face questions from MPs over the issue.
  
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• Woman dies in house fire in south-west London

  11-11-2025 15:34 via standard.co.uk
  
  Victim found dead at the scene after firefighters were called to Broome Road in Hampton
  
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• London NHS trust fined £500k over death of young woman who took her own life

  11-11-2025 15:31 via standard.co.uk
  
  Alice Figueiredo, 22, took her own life in a mental health unit at Goodmayes Hospital, east London
  
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• Grocery price inflation slows in positive news for shoppers ahead of Christmas

  11-11-2025 15:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  Supermarket prices were 4.7% higher than a year ago in October, down from September’s 5.2%, according to market research firm Worldpanel by Numerator.
  
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• Raheem Sterling targeted by burglars again: Chelsea player's house broken into while at home with children

  11-11-2025 15:10 via standard.co.uk
  
  Masked men reportedly broke into the Chelsea footballer’s home shortly before the west London club played Wolves
  
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• Animal welfare groups call for end to live reindeer displays at festive events

  11-11-2025 15:10 via standard.co.uk
  
  An open letter has been sent to hundreds of event organisers.
  
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• Trump's $1billion threat to sue the BBC - will it work?

  11-11-2025 14:58 via standard.co.uk
  
  Lawyers say Trump faces multiple hurdles in his legal war against the BBC, and the $1bn damages claim may just be “symbolic”
  
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• In Pictures: UK falls silent to remember fallen service personnel

  11-11-2025 14:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Queen and Princess of Wales attended two of the events which took place across the country.
  
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