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• London restaurant owner hit with £45k fine over illegal worker pleas to keep licence

  15-06-2026 11:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  Dilman Ismail Mahmoud appeared before the panel to apply for a new premises licence
  
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• Roger Cook death: Investigative journalist and TV broadcaster dies aged 83

  15-06-2026 11:06 via standard.co.uk
  
  ITV hails Roger Cook as ‘one of broadcasting’s most trusted and respected figures’ in statement following his death
  
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• Social media ban: Key points, when will it start and what platforms are affected?

  15-06-2026 10:54 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ban on social media will come into force in the early part of next year, Prime Minister says
  
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• Diplo and T-Pain lead tributes to US singer Oliver Tree who is believed dead

  15-06-2026 10:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  The 32-year-old singer is believed to have died when two helicopters collided over Rio de Janeiro and crashed on Sunday.
  
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• Sir Keir Starmer unveils social media ban for under-16s

  15-06-2026 10:49 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister said the ban was not ‘cost free’ but was the right thing to do to protect children.
  
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• World Naked Bike Ride: Hundreds of cyclists bare all for annual London event

  15-06-2026 10:43 via standard.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of cyclists let it all hang loose as they rode through central London on Sunday
  
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• Huge South African festival 'Lekker in London’ planned for city

  15-06-2026 10:40 via standard.co.uk
  
  The inaugural ‘Lekker in London’ event aims to celebrate South African culture over the summer bank holiday
  
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• Starmer welcomes ‘breakthrough’ in ending US-Iran war

  15-06-2026 10:35 via standard.co.uk
  
  US President Donald Trump said the agreement meant ‘oil will flow’ freely once again through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route.
  
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• City of Westminster tenant left living with boarded-up window for nine months

  15-06-2026 10:33 via standard.co.uk
  
  The council upheld a complaint and awarded £400 in compensation to the tenant
  
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• Hundreds of cyclists take part in World Naked Bike Ride in central London

  15-06-2026 10:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of cyclists let it all hang loose as they rode through central London on Sunday
  
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• Social media under-16s ban: Key points as Starmer announces crackdown in 'big moment'

  15-06-2026 10:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ban on social media will come into force in the early part of next year, Prime Minister says
  
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• Legal challenge launched against Soho school after parent 'kicked out of meeting'

  15-06-2026 10:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  Soho Parish Primary is the last surviving school in the Westminster neighbourhood
  
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• Social media under-16s ban: Key points and reaction as Starmer announces crackdown in 'big moment'

  15-06-2026 10:08 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ban on social media will come into force in the early part of next year, Prime Minister says
  
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• Police hunt for buskers after woman sexually assaulted on Elizabeth line

  15-06-2026 09:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  A woman was sexually assaulted on the Elizabeth line between Whitechapel and Stratford
  
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• FTSE 100 jumps above 10,500 points as Starmer hails 'very significant breakthrough' on Iran peace deal

  15-06-2026 09:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  Cost of oil falls after months of economic chaos caused by the Middle East conflict
  
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• Son of Norway’s crown princess guilty of rape and jailed for four years

  15-06-2026 09:49 via standard.co.uk
  
  Marius Borg Høiby found guilty of two counts of rape by court in Oslo
  
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• Barron Trump towers above parents Donald and Melania as 20-year-old takes in White House UFC cage fight

  15-06-2026 09:49 via standard.co.uk
  
  Barron, who measures 6ft 8in, towered over Donald and Melania Trump at the UFC event
  
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• Under-16s to be banned from social media, Keir Starmer announces

  15-06-2026 09:31 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ban on social media will come into force in the early part of next year, Prime Minister says
  
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• Starmer announces social media ban for under-16s

  15-06-2026 09:31 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sir Keir Starmer set out the measure in a Downing Street press conference.
  
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• FTSE 100 rises after Donald Trump hails peace deal with Iran

  15-06-2026 09:29 via standard.co.uk
  
  Cost of oil falls after months of economic chaos caused by the Middle East conflict
  
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• Divorcee left with nothing after £1m family fight wins battle to drag daughters back to court

  15-06-2026 09:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  Camilla Bains was once so close to her kids that her daughter donated one of her kidneys
  
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• Trump celebrates 80th birthday with Iran peace deal and White House cage fights

  15-06-2026 09:20 via standard.co.uk
  
  British boxing star, Tyson Fury, was among the guests in Washington, wearing a Donald Trump for prime minister baseball hat.
  
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• Settlement for felling of 500-year-old oak tree beside Toby Carvery 'a complete cop-out'

  15-06-2026 09:06 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Conservative-led local authority announced it had reached an out-of-court settlement with pub company Mitchells & Butlers
  
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• Mobile phone signal in London 'worse than Kabul ten years ago,' says ex-security minister Tom Tugendhat

  15-06-2026 08:50 via standard.co.uk
  
  ‘I’m getting worse mobile phone reception that I did in Kabul a decade ago,’ Tom Tugendhat posted on X
  
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• Protesters clash outside London synagogue staging Israeli property show as police make 14 arrests

  15-06-2026 08:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  Around 1,000 protesters and counter-protesters took to the streets outside outside the Edgware United Synagogue
  
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• London travel news LIVE: Major disruption to Heathrow trains due to damaged overhead wires

  15-06-2026 07:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  Heathrow Express is running a reduced operation while Elizabeth line trains between Paddington and the airport are also affected
  
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• Six in ten women in London say capital's getting less safe, new poll finds in blow to Sadiq Khan

  15-06-2026 07:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: A majority of Londoners believe that safety in the city is deteriorating, according to a survey for the London School of Economics
  
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• Heavily-pregnant woman loses baby in south London police chase crash as man, 29, arrested

  15-06-2026 07:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  The woman in her 20s was travelling in her partner’s car when a vehicle in a police pursuit crashed into them
  
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• Sadiq Khan hits out at 'relentless attack of lies and hatred' as mayor announces £7m London tourism campaign

  15-06-2026 07:25 via standard.co.uk
  
  The campaign, to be delivered by London & Partners, will launch in September and target audiences across Europe, the United States and Asia
  
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• Trump celebrates 80th birthday with Iran peace deal and White House cage-fights

  15-06-2026 05:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  British boxing star, Tyson Fury, was among the guests in Washington, wearing a Donald Trump for prime minister baseball hat.
  
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• Indian national arrested after Russian shadow vessel intercepted in Channel

  15-06-2026 01:12 via standard.co.uk
  
  It is understood 24 Georgian and Indian crew members remain on board and are assisting with the investigation.
  
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• Starmer vows to end ‘system failing our kids’ ahead of expected social media ban

  15-06-2026 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  The public consultation on the issue, which closed on May 26, received about 116,000 responses, making it the second-largest in history.
  
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• Scientists make new discovery about the history of the Giant’s Causeway

  15-06-2026 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  It was discovered that Northern Ireland’s volcanic rocks formed in just 5.5 million years.
  
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• John Swinney to visit Kentucky for whisky talks during US visit

  15-06-2026 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Scottish First Minister will meet bourbon business leaders in the state after attending the World Cup in Boston.
  
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• Sadiq Khan declares war on anti-London 'haters' with launch of £7million global promotional campaign

  15-06-2026 00:59 via standard.co.uk
  
  The campaign, to be delivered by London & Partners, will launch in September and target audiences across Europe, the United States and Asia
  
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• Starmer says Strait of Hormuz must stay open after Iran-US peace deal announced

  15-06-2026 00:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, which has been mediating in the conflict, said the accord covered Lebanon.
  
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