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• Burnham will be next prime minister after 349 MPs back him for Labour leadership

  13-07-2026 20:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  While almost 80% of the Parliamentary Labour Party formally nominated Mr Burnham last week, extra endorsements on Monday took him over the line.
  
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• Major London World Cup screening planned if England make Sunday's final

  15-07-2026 10:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  The O2, which showed the UEFA Euro final to about 20,000 football fans in 2024, has been earmarked as the venue that will host the final watch party
  
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• Gatwick Airport chaos as flights declare emergency and diverted after sudden runway closure

  15-07-2026 10:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Flights to London Gatwick were diverted across the UK after incident, disrupting hundreds of passengers
  
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• Around 700,000 specimens to be digitised in project to document biodiversity

  15-07-2026 10:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Insects and plants are among the items that will be digitised.
  
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• London council apologises and must pay £6k after disabled mum and child housed in B&B for a year

  15-07-2026 09:38 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ealing Council ruled to have breached legal limits by placing the family in the unsuitable accommodation for 14 months
  
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• Briton jailed in Iran given extra two-year sentence, family says

  15-07-2026 09:10 via standard.co.uk
  
  Craig Foreman and his wife, Lindsay, were each handed prison sentences after being convicted of espionage, charges they both deny.
  
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• Keir Starmer to bow out at final PMQs as Andy Burnham heads to No10

  15-07-2026 09:08 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sir Keir set to hold final Cabinet talks with senior ministers before heading to the Commons for his last Prime Minister’s Questions
  
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• Roger Hunt’s 1966 World Cup shirt tipped to sell for up to £8,000 at auction

  15-07-2026 08:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Liverpool striker played in every game during the tournament and scored three times.
  
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• Young cybercriminals behind Transport for London hack chaos face jail

  15-07-2026 08:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, hacked TfL’s online network, resulting in a £39 million loss, prosecutors say
  
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• What happened to Ann Widdecombe? Police issue major update on murder probe

  15-07-2026 07:59 via standard.co.uk
  
  Miss Widdecombe was found dead at Dartmoor home on Thursday morning after sustaining ‘serious’ injuries
  
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• London weather LIVE: Heatwave temperature spike looms as wildfires blaze across UK

  15-07-2026 07:58 via standard.co.uk
  
  Met Office forecasting the heat to intensify once again after a drop in temperatures this weekend
  
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• ‘Landmark’ study to offer blood test for Alzheimer’s through GPs

  15-07-2026 07:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Dementia affects about 90,000 people in Scotland, an estimated 3,000 of whom are aged under 65.
  
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• Sadiq Khan: Can anyone stop him winning fourth term as Mayor of London?

  15-07-2026 07:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Conservatives, Reform and Greens are battling to be the main challenger to Labour’s candidate in the 2028 contest for City Hall
  
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• Police hunt man after woman dragged to floor in attempted rape on Tube train

  15-07-2026 07:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  The woman was attacked on a Bakerloo line train at around 11.40pm on Saturday, July 11
  
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• Why the AI apocalypse is a myth: How to build an ethical tech future

  15-07-2026 07:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  According to Cambridge ‘AI ethicists’ Dr Eleanor Drage, the biggest risks of AI are not the dystopian doomsday scenarios that consume us
  
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• Fans say time for ‘Hand of God’ revenge as England set for Argentina semi-final

  15-07-2026 03:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  England manager Thomas Tuchel said Argentina would be ‘fuelled by history’ in Wednesday’s game in Atlanta.
  
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• Meghan earns first Daytime Emmy nomination for Netflix show

  15-07-2026 02:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  The series was in the outstanding lifestyle programme category.
  
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• Starmer faces final Cabinet and PMQs as Burnham edges closer to No 10

  15-07-2026 01:19 via standard.co.uk
  
  The outgoing leader will hold farewell talks with his senior ministers in Downing Street before taking his last Commons grilling.
  
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• Police ‘considering left-wing motive’ in Ann Widdecombe murder probe

  15-07-2026 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Counter-terrorism police continue to quiz a man being held on suspicion of murdering veteran politician Ann Widdecombe.
  
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• ‘Landmark’ study to see blood test for Alzheimer’s offered by GPs

  15-07-2026 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Dementia affects about 90,000 people in Scotland, an estimated 3,000 of whom are aged under 65.
  
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• Joe Wicks urges parents to be positive role models by working out with children

  15-07-2026 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  The TV fitness coach has urged families to take part in his Activate exercise animated videos.
  
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• Heatwave London: How 30C days more than quadrupled in the capital fuelled by climate change

  15-07-2026 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  The city is increasingly sweltering in tropical nights in record hot heatwaves
  
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• Government must ‘stand up to the food industry’ to tackle obesity epidemic – MPs

  15-07-2026 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  All outdoor advertising of junk food should be banned and front-of-pack labelling should be mandatory, the Health and Social Care Committee said.
  
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• Man who fatally stabbed business associate in row in south London jailed for life

  14-07-2026 23:32 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ayowale Aladejana, 26, was stabbed outside his home in New Cross by Ben Wazabanga, 24, in August 2025
  
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• Teenagers to face overnight social media curfew and infinite scrolling shut-down

  14-07-2026 23:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sixteen and 17-year-olds will be able to turn off the default settings, leading critics to question the plans’ effectiveness.
  
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• Ann Widdecombe’s last words in interview just minutes before she was killed

  14-07-2026 22:48 via standard.co.uk
  
  In her final interview, Miss Widdecombe defended the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and branded politics a ‘game of personal destruction’
  
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• Man charged with murder after young mother fatally stabbed in west London

  14-07-2026 22:04 via standard.co.uk
  
  Kirandeep Kaur, 24, was found with stab wounds at a property in Uxbridge Road on Sunday
  
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• Woman accused of killing girls in Wimbledon school crash to face trial

  14-07-2026 21:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  Claire Freemantle faces two charges of causing death by dangerous driving when her Land Rover crashed into The Study Prep school in Wimbledon in 2023
  
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• Burnham says ‘serious review’ into MP safety needed after Widdecombe death

  14-07-2026 21:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  The incoming prime minister said politics has ‘darkened’ in the last decade since he was last in Westminster.
  
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• Police hunt man after shocking attempted rape on Tube on Saturday night

  14-07-2026 20:48 via standard.co.uk
  
  A woman was attacked on a Bakerloo line train at around 11.40pm on July 11
  
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