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• Andy Burnham Labour conference speech key points: Triple lock, rogue landlords and social care

  29-09-2026 16:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  In his first Labour Party conference speech since entering Number 10, Andy Burnham laid out his plan for the country, covering care, pensions, housing, welfare, electoral reform, energy and water
  
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• London's rough sleeping shame: Nearly 1,900 homeless people die in the capital in 13 years

  01-10-2026 12:25 via standard.co.uk
  
  More homeless people are passing away on the capital’s streets or in emergency accommodation than a decade ago, official figures reveal
  
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• Naomi Campbell wins legal challenge over charity trustee ban

  01-10-2026 12:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  The supermodel had been disqualified from being a charity trustee for five years by the Charity Commision.
  
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• Sinn Fein has given up on powersharing – Gavin Robinson

  01-10-2026 12:07 via standard.co.uk
  
  DUP leader Gavin Robinson said they were ‘goading him’ to collapse the Assembly to ‘hide their own incompetence’.
  
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• Naomi Campbell wins legal fight to overturn five-year ban on being a charity trustee

  01-10-2026 12:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Tribunal rules Naomi Campbell was ‘deceived’ by fellow Fashion For Relief trustee
  
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• New Lord Chancellor pledges to be ‘ambitious’ in cutting crown court backlog

  01-10-2026 12:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Justice Secretary Alex Norris was sworn in as Lord Chancellor on Thursday.
  
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• Northern Ireland Secretary to return to Hillsborough for Drumcree talks

  01-10-2026 11:56 via standard.co.uk
  
  Talks involving the Orange Order and the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition are to resume on Thursday evening.
  
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• ‘Thank-you Andy Burnham’: Prisoners praise PM as they are freed early from jail

  01-10-2026 11:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  The first wave of releases began on Thursday, with 700 criminals expected to be freed across the country.
  
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• TV chef took cocktail of drugs before dying in London graveyard, inquest hears

  01-10-2026 11:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Chris Wheeler was found dead at Brompton Cemetery earlier this year
  
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• 'Thank you Andy Burnham': Prisoners praise PM as they're freed early from London jails

  01-10-2026 11:33 via standard.co.uk
  
  One prisoner emerged from HMP Brixton covered in a plastic bag in an effort to conceal his identity
  
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• Footballer Ivan Toney pleads not guilty to Soho nightclub assault charge

  01-10-2026 11:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  The England striker is accused of headbutting and punching a man during a ‘confrontation’ in December last year.
  
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• ‘Thank you Andy Burnham’: Prisoners praise PM as they are freed early from jail

  01-10-2026 11:24 via standard.co.uk
  
  The first wave of releases began on Thursday, with 700 criminals expected to be freed across the country.
  
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• England striker Ivan Toney pleads not guilty to Soho nightclub assault charge

  01-10-2026 11:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  The ex-Brentford star pleaded not guilty to the charge at Westminster Magistrates’ Court
  
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• London weather: Warm and dry stretch ahead - before temperatures suddenly drop

  01-10-2026 11:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  Temperatures will be warmer than average for the next few days - but a change is on the horizon
  
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• ‘Thank you Andy Burnham’ – prisoners praise PM as they are freed early from jail

  01-10-2026 10:56 via standard.co.uk
  
  The first wave of releases began on Thursday, with 700 criminals expected to be freed across the country.
  
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• Raft of rules for new drivers introduced in bid to make roads safer

  01-10-2026 10:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  It includes the introduction of a six-month mandatory minimum learning period.
  
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• Adrian Mills praises co-star Dame Esther Rantzen’s ‘incredible legacy’

  01-10-2026 10:50 via standard.co.uk
  
  The broadcaster and campaigner has been remembered by a host of celebrities following her death aged 86.
  
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• Footballer Ivan Toney arrives at court to face Soho nightclub assault charge

  01-10-2026 10:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  The England striker was charged on July 31 with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
  
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• Prisoners walk free from London jails as Tories warn 'public will pay price' from early release

  01-10-2026 10:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  One prisoner emerged from HMP Brixton covered in a plastic bag in an effort to conceal his identity
  
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• Northern Ireland Chief Constable set to face questions amid Drumcree stand-off

  01-10-2026 10:20 via standard.co.uk
  
  Talks involving the Orange Order and the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition are expected to continue.
  
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• Who is Smit Machchhar? The hero Flydubai pilot who helped avert 'Israel's 9/11'

  01-10-2026 10:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Captain Smit Machchhar managed to open the cockpit door after being stabbed by his co-pilot on the Tel Aviv-bound flight
  
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• Elizabeth Debicki to play Richard II in Royal Shakespeare Company show

  01-10-2026 10:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Australian actress is best known for playing Diana, Princess of Wales in The Crown.
  
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• Andy Burnham's 'big gamble' to put London back at heart of Europe after Brexit blunder

  01-10-2026 08:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  ‘If you rejoin the European Union, there'll be an economic boom,’ says Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform
  
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• Monkey rescued from London home after it was found in bird cage

  01-10-2026 08:34 via standard.co.uk
  
  The common marmoset monkey was found in a property in the borough of Greenwich after a concerned resident raised the alarm
  
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• Revealed: First organisations to face charges nine years after Grenfell Tower fire

  01-10-2026 08:25 via standard.co.uk
  
  Organisations facing charges over Grenfell fire are named as Metropolitan Police pass files to Crown Prosecution Service for decisions
  
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• Annual rate of UK house price growth halved in September, says Nationwide

  01-10-2026 08:17 via standard.co.uk
  
  The conflict in the Middle East has fanned concerns around inflation, the building society said.
  
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• Energy bills go up for hundreds of thousands of Londoners - everything you need to know

  01-10-2026 08:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  More than four million homes who remain on a standard energy tariff are affected by the increase
  
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• BTP's facial recognition trial in London cost £320K, scanned 500K faces - and led to no arrests

  01-10-2026 07:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  The trial cost more than £320,000 and took up almost 100 hours of police officers’ time between February and July this year
  
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• How the last Super El Niño hit London - and what it could mean for the capital this winter

  01-10-2026 07:25 via standard.co.uk
  
  The El Niño event developing in the Pacific has already surpassed the magnitude of the 2015/16 event that brought severe storms to UK, according to the Met Office
  
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• Hegseth harks back to Battle of Agincourt for US hi-tech weapons’ overhaul

  01-10-2026 02:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Pentagon chief also defended his crack down on ‘woke’ culture declaring ‘the ideological clowns are out’.
  
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