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• Burnham told Swinney independence ‘off limits’, says Alexander

  24-07-2026 11:34 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister and First Minister met on Thursday ahead of the Commonwealth Games.
  
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• Residents return home as Cairngorms fire no longer ‘immediate threat’

  26-07-2026 00:22 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police Scotland has lifted the major incident declaration after the fire was brought under control.
  
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• Teenager charged with piloting small boat from France to UK

  26-07-2026 00:06 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sudanese national Chan Mathok Atak, 19, is accused of piloting the vessel from France to the UK on Thursday.
  
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• Man charged with possession of explosive after car intercepted near Irish border

  26-07-2026 00:05 via standard.co.uk
  
  Simon O’Donovan, 44, with an address at Sperrin Road in Drimnagh, represented himself in a late-night bail hearing on Saturday.
  
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• Met probes Reform UK donations by Richard Tice-controlled company

  25-07-2026 23:36 via standard.co.uk
  
  Reform’s bank account was frozen during the last election after the donations, according to reports.
  
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• Burnham ‘has courage to fix adult social care and will make start next week’

  25-07-2026 22:54 via standard.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister Andy Burnham is also expected to make interventions on youth unemployment and devolution in the coming days.
  
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• Over 120 firefighters tackle major blaze in South London

  25-07-2026 21:08 via standard.co.uk
  
  Firefighters spent hours extinguishing the flames that engulfed rows of former townhouses
  
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• 150,000 march through London in world’s largest trans pride, organisers say

  25-07-2026 21:04 via standard.co.uk
  
  Protesters voiced anger at the new guidance on single sex-spaces and fears that trans people are being excluded from society.
  
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• Man charged in connection with bomb seized near border

  25-07-2026 19:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  The man is due to appear before the Special Criminal Court at the Criminal Courts of Justice on Saturday.
  
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• Reality TV star Georgia Toffolo reveals she escaped French wildfires

  25-07-2026 19:47 via standard.co.uk
  
  She was on holiday with her family in Cap Ferret last week.
  
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• Axel Rudakubana accused of 'trying to retraumatise' victims' families from his cell

  25-07-2026 19:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  The decision to move Rudakubana came just a week before the two-year anniversary of the Southport murders
  
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• Highlands residents 'angry, upset and frustrated' at evacuation order as wildfire rages over 10 days

  25-07-2026 19:17 via standard.co.uk
  
  Residents near Cairngorms say they were calling for an emergency incident ‘for over a week’ before it was declared
  
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• Fifteen arrested after violence breaks out at anti-migrant protest in Glasgow

  25-07-2026 19:07 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police pledge to make further arrests after scores of anti-migrant protesters were seen running towards an anti-fascist group.
  
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• ‘He won the World Cup!’ Dubliner Pico Lopes welcomed home to local club

  25-07-2026 18:24 via standard.co.uk
  
  Children swarmed around the Cabo Verde international footballer to get a chance of an autograph, a selfie, or a high five.
  
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• First Minister asks for military aid from UK Government as wildfire continues

  25-07-2026 18:10 via standard.co.uk
  
  Residents in a small area of properties north-west of Dorback Lodge have been evacuated as a precaution.
  
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• Mother of trans woman who took own life addresses PM: ‘Act or more will die’

  25-07-2026 17:13 via standard.co.uk
  
  Tens of thousands of people marched through London for Trans Pride on Saturday.
  
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• Arrests as violence erupts during anti-immigration Unite the Clans protest

  25-07-2026 16:22 via standard.co.uk
  
  Tensions have flared in recent weeks with police pinning much of the blame on misinformation online.
  
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• Migrants arrive after rowing tiny dinghy across the Channel

  25-07-2026 16:08 via standard.co.uk
  
  The English Channel is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
  
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• Six arrested on suspicion of murder after man, 22, killed in south London stabbing

  25-07-2026 15:33 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police are focusing on an area of south London where five men suffered knife wounds
  
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• Hero tells of attempt to save drowning girl and mother on Essex beach

  25-07-2026 15:02 via standard.co.uk
  
  Craig Bowe swam against the incoming tide to drag the mother and daughter to shore
  
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• Violence erupts during anti-immigration Unite the Clans protest in Glasgow

  25-07-2026 14:55 via standard.co.uk
  
  Tensions have flared in recent weeks with police pinning much of the blame on misinformation online.
  
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• Madeleine McCann’s brother cheered on by parents at Commonwealth Games as he wins place in 400m swimming final

  25-07-2026 14:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sean McCann was just two years old when Madeleine disappeared shortly before her fourth birthday during a holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.
  
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• DUP leader questions Irish court’s decision to grant bail in Carrickmacross case

  25-07-2026 14:35 via standard.co.uk
  
  Isobella Perrie Sullivan was granted pail pending a further hearing on Monday.
  
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• Five officers injured as police boat crashes while rushing to 'person in Thames'

  25-07-2026 14:34 via standard.co.uk
  
  Three police officers had to be pulled from the Thames following the crash
  
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• Madeleine McCann’s brother cheered on by parents at Commonwealth Games

  25-07-2026 14:29 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sean McCann was just two years old when Madeleine disappeared shortly before her fourth birthday during a holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.
  
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• Three fire engines were destroyed in blaze and explosion in Essex – fire chief

  25-07-2026 14:05 via standard.co.uk
  
  Essex County Fire and Rescue Service arrived at Southend Road, between East Hanningfield and Rettendon, to reports of a fire on Friday evening.
  
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• Residents ‘upset and angry’ amid Cairngorms wildfire evacuation orders

  25-07-2026 14:02 via standard.co.uk
  
  Residents in a small area of properties north-west of Dorback Lodge have been evacuated as a precaution.
  
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• Twenty firefighters hospitalised after tackling inferno at Essex industrial estate

  25-07-2026 13:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  Rick Hylton, chief fire officer at Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, said multiple fire engines were destroyed in the response and 20 firefighters had to attend hospital
  
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• UK set for fourth heatwave as wildfires hit parts of country

  25-07-2026 13:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  The UK has had 20% of its average July rainfall.
  
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• Letters written by young pre-Smiths Morrissey expected to sell for £22,000

  25-07-2026 13:35 via standard.co.uk
  
  The letters were written to a Birmingham pen friend, Simon Pitt, who would go on to become the city’s poet laureate, between 1974 and 1979.
  
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