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• Rishi Sunak set to announce windfall tax and possible energy bill grant

  26-05-2022 00:03 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Chancellor is to set out new measures in a bid to tackle the cost-of-living crisis on Thursday.
  
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• Brandon Lewis and US delegation discuss protocol dispute

  25-05-2022 23:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  NI Secretary Brandon Lewis said the UK’s ‘firm’ preference was for a negotiated solution with the EU.
  
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• Johnson to pay tribute to ‘remarkable’ Queen in address to Parliament

  25-05-2022 23:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister will say that the Queen’s length of service and dedication to duty are ‘without parallel’.
  
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• Kim Kardashian ‘heartbroken, disgusted and furious’ following Texas shooting

  25-05-2022 23:20 via standard.co.uk
  
  “We can’t accept this as normal any more. It’s not normal for a teenager to kill children”
  
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• Oil and gas producers warn windfall tax would do long-term harm to industry

  25-05-2022 23:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Offshore Energies UK, which represents the offshore oil and gas industry, said the tax would undermine investor confidence.
  
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• Brandon Lewis and US delegation due to discuss protocol dispute

  25-05-2022 22:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  NI Secretary Brandon Lewis is set to stress that the UK Government’s ‘firm’ preference was for a negotiated solution with the EU over the protocol.
  
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• Boris Johnson urged to quit by some Tory MPs over ‘damning’ Sue Gray report

  25-05-2022 22:10 via standard.co.uk
  
  Former minister Tobias Ellwood and backbencher Julian Sturdy described partygate as a ‘distraction’ during a challenging time for the country
  
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• Seven habits linked to lower risk of dementia in those with genetic risk – study

  25-05-2022 22:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Some of the factors that may play a role in reducing the risk are not smoking and maintaining a healthy blood pressure.
  
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• Johnny Depp again denies ‘outlandish’ abuse claims as he returns to stand

  25-05-2022 21:38 via standard.co.uk
  
  The actor was recalled by his legal team and at times appeared frustrated during cross-examination from Ms Heard’s lawyers.
  
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• Duchess of Cambridge reunited with Holocaust survivor at royal garden party

  25-05-2022 21:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  Manfred Goldberg, 92, was one of the first guests the duchess greeted at the third garden party to take place at Buckingham Palace this year
  
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• ‘I’m going to shoot an elementary school’: Texas governor reveals teen gunman Salvador Ramos’s chilling socal media post

  25-05-2022 21:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, used an AR-15 in Tuesday’s attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde
  
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• Lewis to commission abortion services ‘within weeks’ if Stormont does not act

  25-05-2022 20:59 via standard.co.uk
  
  Brandon Lewis said he has both a moral and legal duty to ensure women and girls have the same access to health care as in the rest of the UK.
  
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• Johnny Depp calls Amber Heard’s abuse claims ‘cruel’ and ‘false’ as actor returns to witness stand in $150m defamation trial

  25-05-2022 20:49 via standard.co.uk
  
  Asked to describe how it felt listening to Heard’s accounts, Depp answered: ‘Horrible, ridiculous, humiliating, ludicrous, painful, savage.’
  
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• Kate reunited with Holocaust survivor at royal garden party

  25-05-2022 20:26 via standard.co.uk
  
  Manfred Goldberg, 92, was one of the first guests the duchess greeted at the third garden party to take place at Buckingham Palace this year.
  
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• ‘I’m going to shoot an elementary school’: Texas governor reveals teen gunman Salvador Ramos’s chilling Facebook post

  25-05-2022 20:10 via standard.co.uk
  
  Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, used an AR-15 in Tuesday’s attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde
  
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• Boris Johnson dismisses booze ban in No 10 after Gray findings

  25-05-2022 20:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister told Tory MPs that Britain may not have won the Second World War if there had been a booze ban.
  
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• Tests decision due in life support treatment case involving 12-year-old boy

  25-05-2022 19:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  Specialists treating Archie Battersbee at the Royal London Hospital think it ‘highly likely’ he is dead and say life-support treatment should end.
  
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• Jubilee timings revealed ahead of Platinum celebrations

  25-05-2022 19:37 via standard.co.uk
  
  The monarch is the first British sovereign to celebrate 70 years on the throne.
  
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• Boris Johnson urged to quit by Tory MPs over ‘damning’ Sue Gray report

  25-05-2022 19:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  Two Conservative MPs described partygate as a ‘distraction’.
  
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• Elizabeth line: Bond Street to open when Crossrail sections integrate in autumn

  25-05-2022 19:26 via standard.co.uk
  
  TfL boss Andy Byford gives update on integration of lines’ three sections after almost half a million journeys were made on the £20bn new railway’s launch day
  
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• Rishi Sunak set to unveil £10bn package of support to help households with soaring energy bills

  25-05-2022 19:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Chancellor is expected to set out support funded by a windfall tax to help the most vulnerable in society hit by the cost of living crisis
  
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• Policeman tells inquiry he feared Sheku Bayoh had killed fellow officer

  25-05-2022 18:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  Pc Ashley Tomlinson was giving evidence to the public inquiry into the death of Mr Bayoh in Kirkcaldy in 2015.
  
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• Partygate: Unions slam treatment of cleaners who mopped up after lockdown parties

  25-05-2022 18:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  Cleaners left to mop up the mess after lockdown parties in No10 were treated “appallingly”, unions said on Wednesday.
  
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• Sexual predator posed as a man to trick women into sex

  25-05-2022 18:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  A sexual predator who pretended to be a man while having sex with three different women is facing jail for a string of sexual and violent offences.
  
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• Who has been named in Sue Gray’s report?

  25-05-2022 18:40 via standard.co.uk
  
  A total of 16 individuals – from former civil servants to serving members of the Cabinet – have been named in the investigation.
  
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• London politics latest LIVE: Boris Johnson faces new call to quit as PM meets Tory backbenchers over Sue Gray report

  25-05-2022 18:34 via standard.co.uk
  
  As the PM met members of the 1922 Commitee, Tory MP Julian Sturdy released a statement saying ‘it is now in the public interest’ for him to resign
  
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• Charles laments ‘nightmare situation’ during visit to Ukraine refugee centre

  25-05-2022 18:32 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Prince of Wales was visiting a centre in Romania.
  
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• Archbishop calls for return to good standards in public life after partygate

  25-05-2022 18:32 via standard.co.uk
  
  Justin Welby said that Sue Gray’s report shows that “culture, behaviour and standards in public life” matter.
  
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• PM should stay on despite Sue Gray report, Scottish Tory leader says

  25-05-2022 18:31 via standard.co.uk
  
  The report was released on Wednesday.
  
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• London politics latest LIVE: Boris Johnson addressing Tory backbenchers as he refuses to quit over Sue Gray report

  25-05-2022 18:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  The 59-page document includes details of 16 boozy events across Whitehall and in Downing Street in breach of Covid laws
  
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• Sunak set to announce help for the poorest to cope with cost-of-living squeeze

  25-05-2022 18:19 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Chancellor is expected to set out support targeted at the most vulnerable in society.
  
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• World’s largest bottle of whisky sells for £1.1m at auction

  25-05-2022 18:17 via standard.co.uk
  
  The 5ft 11in tall bottle of Macallan was bought by an anonymous buyer at Edinburgh-based auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull.
  
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• Archbishop of Canterbury ‘awed’ by wooden tribute to pandemic victims

  25-05-2022 18:16 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Most Rev Justin Welby said the monument in Warwickshire – due to be burnt at the weekend – symbolises local people’s prayers and hopes.
  
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• Dame Deborah James says ‘I’m scared to fall asleep’

  25-05-2022 18:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  The podcast host, known as the Bowel Babe, has opened up about her fight against cancer as she receives end of life care at home
  
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• Daughter of Covid victim condemns ‘selfish’ Boris Johnson in wake of partygate report

  25-05-2022 18:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  Safiah Ngah said it is ‘disgusting’ No 10 staff were partying while she was not allowed to see her father in hospital prior to his death
  
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• Researchers discover most dinosaurs were warm-blooded

  25-05-2022 18:03 via standard.co.uk
  
  But scientists observed differences between the two big groups of dinosaurs, finding that Triceratops were cold-blooded and T-Rex warm-blooded.
  
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• Boris Johnson defies calls to quit despite ‘bitter and painful’ Sue Gray report

  25-05-2022 17:59 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister recognised that people are ‘indignant’ over the damning findings of Sue Gray’s inquiry into law-breaking at the heart of Government
  
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• Westminster ‘pushing disingenuous claim that protocol incompatible with GFA’

  25-05-2022 17:58 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ireland’s foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney urged the British Government to rethink its plans.
  
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• London politics latest LIVE: Boris Johnson claims much of Sue Gray report is ‘news to me’ as he rules out resigning

  25-05-2022 17:54 via standard.co.uk
  
  The 59-page document includes details of 16 boozy events across Whitehall and in Downing Street in breach of Covid laws
  
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• Daughter of Covid victim condemns ‘selfish’ PM in wake of partygate report

  25-05-2022 17:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  Safiah Ngah said it is ‘disgusting’ No 10 staff were partying while she was not allowed to see her father in hospital prior to his death.
  
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• Student and Derry Girls fan writes dissertation about hit show

  25-05-2022 17:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Reiltin Doherty, originally from the Waterside in Derry, is a final year student at the University of York.
  
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• 78 cases of monkeypox confirmed in the UK

  25-05-2022 17:38 via standard.co.uk
  
  Health officials have identified seven more cases.
  
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• ‘Enormous amount of public money’ spent exiting youth jail contract – minister

  25-05-2022 17:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  Prisons minister Victoria Atkins said work had been done to close ‘loopholes’.
  
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• No threat to bottled beer supply because of glass shortage, says industry chief

  25-05-2022 17:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  Dave Dalton of British Glass rejected warnings that rising production costs could lead to a shortage of glass bottles.
  
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• UK monkeypox cases rise to 78 as another seven are detected in England

  25-05-2022 17:23 via standard.co.uk
  
  77 cases have been found in England with one detected in Scotland
  
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• Elizabeth line station at Bond Street to open in the autumn

  25-05-2022 17:19 via standard.co.uk
  
  TfL boss Andy Byford gives update on integration of lines’ three sections after almost half a million journeys were made on the £20bn new railway’s launch day
  
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• Boris Johnson defies calls to quit despite ‘bitter and painful’ Gray report

  25-05-2022 17:16 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister defied fresh demands that he quits over the partygate scandal.
  
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• London politics latest LIVE: Boris Johnson says ‘didn’t occur to me I was breaking lockdown rules’ as Sue Gray report published

  25-05-2022 17:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  The 59-page document includes details of 16 boozy events across Whitehall and in Downing Street in breach of Covid laws
  
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• Boy at centre of treatment dispute has ‘irretrievable’ brain damage – specialist

  25-05-2022 16:58 via standard.co.uk
  
  The expert told a judge that tests showed that Archie Battersbee had signs of ‘end-point severe global brain injury’.
  
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• Monkeypox patients can be contagious for up to ten weeks - study

  25-05-2022 16:49 via standard.co.uk
  
  71 confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported in the UK since first infection was found on May 7
  
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