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• Burnham suggests Pc Harper case could trigger wider review of early release

  22-07-2026 12:24 via standard.co.uk
  
  Pc Harper died while responding to a report of a quad bike theft in 2019.
  
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• Witnesses describe police boat crash after high-speed ‘pursuit’

  24-07-2026 20:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Witnesses who were nearby when a police boat carrying armed officers crashed into Westminster Bridge on the River Thames describe what they saw.
  
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• 113,000 cigarettes seized in east London in illicit tobacco raid

  24-07-2026 20:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  Barking and Dagenham Council says the raid on a premises in Heathway earlier this month uncovered one of its ‘largest ever illegal tobacco hauls’
  
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• Sarah Ferguson’s charity wound up after scrutiny of her Epstein links

  24-07-2026 20:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Charity Commission website lists Sarah’s Trust as being ‘removed’, meaning it is no longer a registered charity.
  
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• Five injured after boat carrying armed police crashes into Westminster Bridge

  24-07-2026 19:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  Some officers had to be pulled from the Thames following the crash
  
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• Netanyahu 'not welcome' in London, Sadiq Khan says

  24-07-2026 19:38 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Mayor of London said that those ‘accused of genocide’ should be held responsible
  
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• Andy Burnham takes swipe at 'London-based voices' on first day in No10 North HQ to push devolution revolution

  24-07-2026 19:05 via standard.co.uk
  
  ‘No10 North is as much for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as it is for the regions of England,’ says the new Prime Minister
  
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• Woman charged in connection with dissident republican bomb seized near border

  24-07-2026 18:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  The woman, aged in her 20s, is due before a special court sitting on Friday evening.
  
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• Efforts to contain wildfire harder due to changing weather, says Swinney

  24-07-2026 18:31 via standard.co.uk
  
  The First Minister urged people in the affected region to follow advice from the emergency services.
  
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• West Ham fans reveal opposition to key part of new London Stadium plan

  24-07-2026 18:25 via standard.co.uk
  
  Hammers United have their say on five-point plan to turn around the venue’s fortunes
  
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• Police vessel carrying armed officers crashes on Thames injuring five

  24-07-2026 18:11 via standard.co.uk
  
  Responders from the RNLI could be seen treating casualties at Westminster pier.
  
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• Five injured after boat carrying armed police crashes at Westminster Bridge

  24-07-2026 18:05 via standard.co.uk
  
  Emergency services are at the scene as they deal with the incident on the Thames
  
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• Father who fatally shook newborn baby in drunken rage jailed for life

  24-07-2026 18:02 via standard.co.uk
  
  Tony Bartlett murdered his four-week-old son after drinking 8.5 pints of lager.
  
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• Thousands of PlayStation users unable to access games as outages confirmed

  24-07-2026 18:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Reports of outages first emerged on the tracking website Downdetector in the early afternoon.
  
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• Westminster Bridge in gridlock as boat carrying armed police crashes

  24-07-2026 17:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  Emergency services are at the scene as they deal with the incident on the Thames
  
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• Police vessel carrying armed officers crashes on Thames

  24-07-2026 17:48 via standard.co.uk
  
  Responders from the RNLI could be seen treating casualties at Westminster pier.
  
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• Footage reveals moment Vickrum Digwa tells mother to take murder weapon

  24-07-2026 17:43 via standard.co.uk
  
  Video released by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) comes a week after Digwa’s mother, Kiran Kaur, was jailed for three years.
  
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• Police release image of man after ‘upskirting’ incident at Tottenham Court Road

  24-07-2026 17:18 via standard.co.uk
  
  A man reportedly recorded two young girls at the central London station
  
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• Painstaking and complex work ongoing to secure fire-hit building – council chief

  24-07-2026 17:16 via standard.co.uk
  
  Steelwork will be attached to the facade of the building in Edinburgh’s Princes Street in order to secure it.
  
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• Angela Rayner leaves door open to new homes tax which would hammer London by an extra £7.5bn

  24-07-2026 16:56 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Housing Secretary said the issue would be looked at ahead of the Budget, expected in the autumn
  
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• Father jailed for life after murdering newborn baby by shaking him

  24-07-2026 16:47 via standard.co.uk
  
  Atticus Bartlett died in hospital after collapsing at his family home in Chard, Somerset, on July 16 2022.
  
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• Angela Rayner leaves door open to extra £7.5billion homes tax on London

  24-07-2026 16:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Housing Secretary said the issue would be looked at ahead of the Budget, expected in the autumn
  
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• Is PlayStation Network down? Thousands of UK users report problems

  24-07-2026 16:13 via standard.co.uk
  
  Around 6,000 reports from UK users were logged by Downdetector at about 3pm on Friday
  
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• Chris Brown pleads guilty to affray over London nightclub incident

  24-07-2026 15:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US singer hit a man with a glass bottle in "a vicious and unprovoked attack", prosecutors said.
  
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• Smoke from Cairngorms wildfire drifts as far as Aberdeen

  24-07-2026 15:57 via standard.co.uk
  
  The wildfire broke out near Glenmore last week.
  
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• ‘Mega dinghy’ carrying record 165 migrants at once crossed Channel to UK

  24-07-2026 15:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  The vessel was estimated to be around 13m (42ft) long – the same as a standard bus.
  
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• Weather map shows major London heatwave temperature spike next week

  24-07-2026 15:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  The forecast by WX Charts suggests the hot weather will reach a peak on Tuesday, July 28
  
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• Syrians jailed for raping drunk teenager at HMO

  24-07-2026 15:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  Dilgash Adil and Diyar Mohammed Abdulsalm were jailed for raping the teenager after meeting her at a nightclub.
  
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• Where is Andy Burnham’s No10 North? Prime Minister holds first meeting in new Manchester base

  24-07-2026 15:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister has described the opening of No10 North as the ‘best day of his life’
  
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• Energy sector wants ‘powerful reset’ from Andy Burnham’s Government

  24-07-2026 14:57 via standard.co.uk
  
  Trade body Offshore Energies UK is urging the Government to back the controversial Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gas projects in the North Sea.
  
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