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• Bodies left to decompose in NHS hospitals – inspectors

  16-05-2024 11:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  Guidance says bodies should be moved into frozen storage after 30 days in fridges or before.
  
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• Angela Rayner declares £3,550 worth of clothes from Lord Alli

  31-10-2024 23:56 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Deputy Prime Minister updated a declaration of a gift from the Labour backer to show it was for work clothes.
  
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• Irish premier offers Ireland’s help to Spain in wake of fatal flooding

  31-10-2024 23:18 via standard.co.uk
  
  Pedro Sanchez thanked the people of Ireland for their solidarity and kindness.
  
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• ‘We’re surrounded by water’: Expat teacher outside Valencia unable to leave town

  31-10-2024 22:32 via standard.co.uk
  
  John Fahy described driving home during the worst of the storm, which hit southern Spain on Tuesday.
  
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• Double blow for Londoners as Tube strike chaos and fare hike loom

  31-10-2024 21:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  A strike is on the horizon for London commuters
  
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• Mystery hangs over future of London mayor’s night czar role as post left vacant

  31-10-2024 20:50 via standard.co.uk
  
  City Hall Conservatives have urged Sadiq Khan to follow Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham by appointing an unpaid ‘industry expert’
  
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• Police brace as Palestine march and counter-protest set for London this weekend

  31-10-2024 20:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  Residents and businesses consulted about the impact of two simultaneous events taking place, officers said
  
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• Stormont vote process on post-Brexit arrangements triggered by NI Secretary

  31-10-2024 20:33 via standard.co.uk
  
  Assembly Speaker Edwin Poots has notified the First Minister and deputy First Minister that the democratic consent process has begun.
  
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• Opposition parties offer to ease through Israeli imports law before election

  31-10-2024 19:10 via standard.co.uk
  
  Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said passing the bill at the end of the Dail term would ‘send a powerful message’.
  
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• Compensation fund for dismissed LGBT veterans is too small, MPs say

  31-10-2024 19:05 via standard.co.uk
  
  Labour MPs said that the current fund will work out at £12,500 for each veteran sacked under so-called ‘gay ban’ that lasted until 2000.
  
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• Sugar restrictions in early life ‘may lower chronic disease risk in adulthood’

  31-10-2024 19:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The findings are based on data gathered after the Second World War in the UK, around the time when sugar rationing ended.
  
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• Farm schemes funding ‘review’ was last thing sector needed, says MP

  31-10-2024 19:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  A ‘review’ into farm schemes funding from 2025/26 was ‘the last thing’ the sector needed, an MP said.
  
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• Government drinks 5,500 bottles of wine and spirits in two years

  31-10-2024 18:58 via standard.co.uk
  
  The value of the Government’s wine cellar has reached almost £4 million, while consumption has still not returned to pre-pandemic levels.
  
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• Stormont ministers must ensure balanced budget is delivered, says Benn

  31-10-2024 18:55 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Northern Ireland Secretary said the scale of the budget package for the region presented the local administration with ‘significant opportunity’.
  
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• Sara Sharif was punished because she had a ‘jinn in her’ – stepmother

  31-10-2024 18:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  Beinash Batool, 30, Sara’s father Urfan Sharif, 42, and uncle Faisal Malik, 29, are accused of a campaign of abuse culminating in her murder.
  
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• Motorcyclist, 30, dies in M25 crash near Waltham Abbey

  31-10-2024 18:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police responded to a collision on the clockwise carriageway near junction 26
  
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• Change to corroboration rules will have ‘far-reaching consequences’ – law body

  31-10-2024 18:48 via standard.co.uk
  
  The ruling was made on October 30 by an historic nine-judge panel at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
  
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• Police force apologises to family of man who died in Wales train collision

  31-10-2024 18:47 via standard.co.uk
  
  The British Transport Police have apologised to the family of David Tudor Evans for saying they were supporting the family.
  
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• Time to ‘think about’ reparations for slave trade, says Doreen Lawrence

  31-10-2024 18:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Labour peer argued it was a contemporary issue given taxes had been used to help compensate slave owners up until 2015.
  
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• Private school group to launch legal action over Government’s VAT plan on fees

  31-10-2024 18:20 via standard.co.uk
  
  Members of the Independent Schools Council board voted to take action after the policy was confirmed in the Budget.
  
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• Government ‘cannot commit’ to Casement funding without more details on costs

  31-10-2024 18:20 via standard.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn was commenting after the GAA presented its revised plans for the stadium redevelopment to a Stormont minister.
  
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• When is the US presidential election 2024? Polls show Harris leads Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan

  31-10-2024 18:17 via standard.co.uk
  
  There is less than a week to go before the new occupant of the White House — Kamala Harris or Donald Trump — is decided
  
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• TfL plans to set up dedicated 'solar farms' to power the London Underground

  31-10-2024 18:17 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sun’s rays to be ‘harvested’ to help drive mayor’s green agenda
  
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• Polls close in vote for Tory members to pick new leader

  31-10-2024 18:08 via standard.co.uk
  
  Voting has ended for Conservative members to choose between Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick to be the party’s next leader.
  
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• Cleavage-sparing mastectomy numbers ‘inflated’, breast surgeon tells inquest

  31-10-2024 17:59 via standard.co.uk
  
  Giving evidence remotely from prison, Ian Paterson said his version of a mastectomy was simply an ‘adaptation’, not a new procedure.
  
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• Chancellor’s vape tax increase will ‘hurt working people’, says Labour MP

  31-10-2024 17:59 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mary Glindon argued the increase, which will occur in October 2026, is ‘unsustainably high’.
  
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• Will Tube strikes be called off? TfL issues passenger alert as week of walkout misery looms

  31-10-2024 17:55 via standard.co.uk
  
  Industrial action due to affect passengers from Sunday, but talks continue into “11th hour” to avert chaos on London Underground
  
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• Final Tory leadership candidates’ donations rise to £900,000

  31-10-2024 17:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Kemi Badenoch declared more donations than Robert Jenrick on Thursday, but Mr Jenrick has still raised slightly more money overall.
  
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• Nightmare Before Christmas and a pirate ship: Families decorate Halloween homes

  31-10-2024 17:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  One family said they had spent ‘months and months’ on their house.
  
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• British businessman charged with murder after housekeeper, 25, found at bottom of waterfall in Hong Kong

  31-10-2024 17:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  The 34-year-old and his wife were both arrested at West Kowloon train station on Tuesday
  
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