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• Deliveroo riders protest over payment changes

  11-08-2016 23:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of Deliveroo riders stage protests in London over changes they fear will mean lower wages.
  
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• Runners streak naked through London Zoo for annual race

  11-08-2016 23:25 via standard.co.uk
  
  Brave animal-lovers stripped off to run stark naked around London Zoo in a bid save tigers.
  
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• Runners streak naked through London Zoo for annual nude race

  11-08-2016 23:25 via standard.co.uk
  
  Brave animal-lovers stripped off to run stark naked around London Zoo in a bid save tigers.
  
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• Owen Smith: Jeremy Corbyn is 10 out of 10 for Brexit

  11-08-2016 22:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  Labour leadership hopeful Owen Smith accused Jeremy Corbyn of being "10 out of 10" for leaving the EU despite his public campaign against Brexit.
  
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• Preston Road: Firefighters tackle huge blaze near Tube station

  11-08-2016 21:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  Firefighters are battling a huge blaze at flats next to a north London Tube station.
  
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• Rio Olympics 2016: Charlotte Dujardin leads individual dressage as GB move into silver

  11-08-2016 21:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  GB's Charlotte Dujardin and horse Valegro lead the individual dressage event in Rio, with the British team moving into silver medal position.
  
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• Pensioner sparked bomb scare at Santander bank with bizarre handwritten note

  11-08-2016 21:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  A pensioner has been found guilty of sparking a bomb scare at a bank with a note threatening to blow up the branch.
  
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• Hua Hin bombing: One dead and 20 injured in blast at popular Thai holiday resort

  11-08-2016 21:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  One woman is dead and 20 people are injured after two bombs exploded at a popular holiday resort in Thailand.
  
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• Heathrow airside staff suspended amid security passes police inquiry

  11-08-2016 20:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of airside staff who work at Heathrow Airport have had their airside clearance suspended after three women are arrested on suspicion of fraud.
  
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• Police issue efit of 'distinctive man with misshapen nose' after burglary in Kent

  11-08-2016 20:38 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police have released an unusual efit of a man they are hunting over a distraction burglary in Kent.
  
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• London's lavishly high home prices take a Brexit hit - Washington Post

  11-08-2016 20:31
  
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  London's lavishly high home prices take a Brexit hit
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  LONDON — Moneyed newcomers drove London real estate prices to dizzying heights, turning even the most Dickensian hovel into a trophy property. But Britain's bid to break with Europe may finally be cooling the most expensive big-city housing market in ...and more »
  
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• A34 crash: First picture of children killed in horrific eight-vehicle pile-up

  11-08-2016 20:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  This is the first picture of the children killed alongside their mother in a horror crash involving eight vehicles.
  
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• Rio Olympics 2016: Great Britain win Olympic canoe slalom silver

  11-08-2016 20:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Florence and Richard Hounslow miss out on Britain's second canoe slalom gold in two days, winning silver in the C2 double at Rio 2016.
  
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• Gabriella Taylor: Experts cast doubt on tennis 'poisoning'

  11-08-2016 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts have cast doubts on claims British tennis player Gabriella Taylor was deliberately poisoned at Wimbledon last month.
  
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• London schoolgirl who fled UK to join Isis 'killed in airstrike as she tried to escape'

  11-08-2016 19:47 via standard.co.uk
  
  One of three east London schoolgirls who ran away to join Islamic State in Syria is believed to have been killed in an airstrike on Raqqa.
  
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• Petts Wood crash: Woman trapped as car ploughs into south-east London charity shop

  11-08-2016 18:33 via standard.co.uk
  
  Firefighters have freed a woman after a car ploughed into a charity shop in south-east London.
  
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• Petts Wood crash: Woman fighting for life after car ploughs into south-east London charity shop

  11-08-2016 18:33 via standard.co.uk
  
  A woman is fighting for her life in hopsital after a car ploughed into a charity shop in south-east London.
  
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• New CCTV released after woman forced to fight off sex attacker with keys

  11-08-2016 18:22 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police have released fresh CCTV images of a man they want to speak to after a woman was forced to fight off a sex attacker with her keys in Clapham.
  
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• Perseid meteor shower 2016: How, when and where to see the dazzling display in London

  11-08-2016 18:19 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Perseid meteor shower 2016 will light up the sky tonight and for keen stargazers there are a range of ways to see the dazzling display.
  
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• Charlton sign Kilmarnock's Josh Magennis and Leeds' Jordan Botaka

  11-08-2016 18:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Charlton Athletic sign Northern Ireland international Josh Magennis from Kilmarnock and Leeds winger Jordan Botaka.
  
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• Jonathan Calleri: Argentina striker joins West Ham on season-long loan

  11-08-2016 18:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  West Ham sign Argentina striker Jonathan Calleri on a season-long from Uruguayan side Deportivo Maldonado.
  
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• Crystal Palace: Oil spill on road sparks chaos in south London

  11-08-2016 17:58 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police today shut a major south London road after it was left in a treacherous state by a large oil spillage.
  
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• Rio Olympics 2016: Croatia's Sinkovic brothers win double sculls, GB fifth

  11-08-2016 17:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Brothers Martin and Valent Sinkovic win Olympic gold in the men's double sculls for Croatia, as Team GB finish fifth.
  
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• Jailed: Paedophile who filmed sexual abuse of boy, 13, he met on dating app

  11-08-2016 17:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  A man who filmed himself sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy he met on a dating app has been jailed for more than four years.
  
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• Commuters left in no doubt where train was going after bizarre display screen error at King's Cross

  11-08-2016 17:18 via standard.co.uk
  
  Bewildered rail passengers en route to Cambridge were informed their train via Cambridge would be calling at Cambridge before it reached Cambridge.
  
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• Over-exuberant Staffordshire Bull Terrier 'starts house fire' in Kent

  11-08-2016 16:18 via standard.co.uk
  
  A lively Staffy named Beau has its tail between its legs after allegedly starting a kitchen fire.
  
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• RADA graduate cleared of raping waiter he met on Grindr

  11-08-2016 15:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  A RADA graduate wiped away tears as a jury cleared him of raping a waiter on their first date.
  
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• Foxtons staff sacked over 'brawl' with activists outside Boris Johnson's home

  11-08-2016 15:12 via standard.co.uk
  
  Three Foxtons employees have been sacked after allegedly brawling with activists outside Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's home, it emerged today.
  
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• Starbucks fined £160,000 for leaving rubbish on street opposite the Ritz Hotel

  11-08-2016 14:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  Two branches of Starbucks have been hit with fines approaching £200,000 after repeatedly leaving rubbish bags on a Mayfair pavement opposite the Ritz Hotel.
  
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• Pictured: mother killed along with three children in horrific crash on the A34

  11-08-2016 13:48 via standard.co.uk
  
  This is the mother killed alongside her children in a horror crash involving four lorries and four cars as they made their way off for a weekend break.
  
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• Ex-minister says BT should be stripped of superfast internet delivery

  11-08-2016 13:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  BT should be stripped of delivering superfast broadband because of its "nightmarish" provision of the service, a former business minister said today.
  
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• Official complaints made over judge who called racist thug 'a bit of a c***'

  11-08-2016 13:37 via standard.co.uk
  
  Complaints have been made against a judge who called a racist thug "a bit of a c***."
  
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• Londoner's Diary: Fond farewell to the man who got London moving

  11-08-2016 13:10 via standard.co.uk
  
  Farewell to Bob Kiley, first Commissioner of Transport to Ken Livingstone, who died on Tuesday aged 80. Arriving in 2000, the American had overseen the transport systems in Boston and New York but was something of an unknown quantity in London. The Evening Standard's welcome was open-armed: "New York tough guy to run Tube".
  
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• Woman 'strip-searched over broken tail light in Baltimore'

  11-08-2016 12:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police in Baltimore strip-searched a woman at the side of a road in full view before handing her an order to repair a broken tail light.
  
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• Retired barrister killed in crash with lorry near Oxford Circus Tube station

  11-08-2016 12:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  An elderly man who died after he was hit by a lorry on a busy central London shopping street was today named by police as a retired barrister from Camden.
  
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• None of these cyclists can be seen by a lorry driver sitting in their cab

  11-08-2016 12:23 via standard.co.uk
  
  A crackdown on killer lorries is being planned by Transport for London after researchers identified the HGVs that pose the biggest danger to cyclists and pedestrians.
  
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• Deputy mayor calls for glass doors on lorries to save cyclists' lives

  11-08-2016 12:23 via standard.co.uk
  
  A crackdown on killer lorries is being planned by Transport for London after researchers identified the HGVs that pose the biggest danger to cyclists and pedestrians.
  
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• Mother and three children killed in horrific eight vehicle pile-up on the A34

  11-08-2016 11:54 via standard.co.uk
  
  A mother and three children were believed to have been killed in a horror crash involving four lorries and four cars.
  
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• Paapa Essiedu: "The work we create on our stages needs to be representative of the world we live in"

  11-08-2016 11:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  Paapa Essiedu talks to Nick Curtis about playing Hamlet at the RSC and how he almost became a doctor
  
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• 300 Heathrow staff have passes suspended amid security scam probe

  11-08-2016 11:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into a scam involving airside security passes at Healthrow Airport.
  
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• 'I've learned not to drink at work', says Chelsea restaurant boss who waved gun at passers-by in the street

  11-08-2016 11:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  A restauranteur who was convicted of brandishing a fake shotgun in the street while drunk says he feels "lucky to have come out the other side" of the "ordeal", as he launches a venture aimed at healthy living.
  
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• Night Tube 'will give London a £77m boost'

  11-08-2016 11:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Night Tube will give a huge £77 million a year boost to London's economy, a major report said today.
  
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• Snapchat removes 'racist yellowface' filter after social media uproar

  11-08-2016 10:58 via standard.co.uk
  
  Snapchat has removed a "racist" filter after online uproar from thousands of users who dubbed it "yellowface".
  
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• Disneyland Paris train station evacuated after security alert

  11-08-2016 10:57 via standard.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of families were evacuated from the Disneyland Paris train station yesterday after a suspicious package triggered a security alert.
  
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• Jail for bogus letting agents who conned tenants out of thousands

  11-08-2016 10:56 via standard.co.uk
  
  Three bogus lettings agents have been sentenced for conning prospective tenants out of tens have thousands of pounds.
  
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• Southern rail: Commuters hit by more disruption despite strike suspension

  11-08-2016 10:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  Commuters suffered more cancellations, delays and disruption today despite a rail strike being called off.
  
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• London airports slammed over 'staggering' cost of drop-off parking

  11-08-2016 10:31 via standard.co.uk
  
  London airports have been criticised for charging "sky high" short stay parking prices as figures reveal they are in the top most expensive in the country.
  
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• Donald Trump accuses President Obama of being the 'founder of ISIS'

  11-08-2016 09:56 via standard.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump has accused President Obama of being the "founder" of Islamic State in another extraordinary attack on the White House campaign trail.
  
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• Immigration officers storm Kensington cafe after tip-off

  11-08-2016 09:35 via standard.co.uk
  
  Immigration officers carried out a raid on an upmarket Italian cafe in Kensington yesterday.
  
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• Man arrested after scaling Trump Tower in New York City using rubber suction cups

  11-08-2016 09:32 via standard.co.uk
  
  A man who attempted to scale the façade of the 58-storey Trump Tower in New York has been detained by police.
  
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