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• Doritos issues urgent recall of popular snack

  19-07-2026 09:59 via standard.co.uk
  
  Some of the Doritos bags have been filled with a crisps product containing traces of milk
  
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• Police describe Graeme Dott as ‘dangerous individual’ after abuse conviction

  24-08-2026 17:55 via standard.co.uk
  
  Detective Inspector Gary Smillie praised the bravery of Dott’s victims.
  
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• Intruder at Westminster! Unexpected visitor gets into MP's office as fox found hiding in stationery cupboard

  24-08-2026 17:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  How the fox made it into the Tory MP George Freeman’s office remains a mystery
  
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• Scottish Government should abandon social care cuts, says Labour hopeful Fagan

  24-08-2026 17:36 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Scottish Labour leadership candidate has also backed calls for £750 million additional funding for social care.
  
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• Man 'stabbed partner 70 times in her London home then turned knife on her daughter'

  24-08-2026 17:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  Alan Dore, 48, has appeared in court accused of killing grandmother Samantha Turner, 52, in her own home in Shepherd’s Bush on August 18
  
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• All the train timetable changes affecting London services after a summer of record-breaking heat forces switch

  24-08-2026 17:17 via standard.co.uk
  
  Timetables will be amended on c2c and Greater Anglia services from tomorrow
  
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• Network Rail sues companies for £5m over derailment which caused oil spill

  24-08-2026 16:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  Almost 450,000 litres of fuel spilt when 10 carriages derailed in south Wales in August 2020.
  
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• Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott found guilty of sexually abusing children

  24-08-2026 16:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  The 49-year-old subjected a girl and a boy to multiple incidents of abuse
  
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• Burnham calls on allies to send more interceptor missiles to Ukraine

  24-08-2026 16:23 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister is chairing his first meeting of the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’.
  
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• Lime withdraws bikes from London borough after blind man forced into busy road in 'very frightening' ordeal

  24-08-2026 16:22 via standard.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: Council chiefs tells Lime - stop allowing hiring of bikes in our borough as you don’t have our consent
  
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• Pearly King of Peckham who 'inspired Del Boy' dies aged 88

  24-08-2026 15:37 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Pearly King of Peckham George Major has died aged 88
  
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• Ex-snooker champion Graeme Dott found guilty of sexually abusing children

  24-08-2026 15:35 via standard.co.uk
  
  The 49-year-old subjected a girl and a boy to multiple incidents of abuse.
  
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• Police investigating double murder seize more than 4,000 hours of CCTV footage

  24-08-2026 15:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  Two men were found injured on August 16.
  
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• ‘What the boys did was wrong’ – priest at funeral of teenager killed in M9 crash

  24-08-2026 15:23 via standard.co.uk
  
  There was a heavy police presence for the funeral mass of 18-year-old Jeremy O’Brien.
  
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• Five who died in A66 crash may have had links to ‘organised criminal activity’

  24-08-2026 15:23 via standard.co.uk
  
  Cleveland Police said 12 other people have been arrested over alleged criminality leading up to the collision which killed seven people.
  
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• A66 'joyride' crash: Twelve arrested in connection with head-on collision that killed two police officers

  24-08-2026 15:08 via standard.co.uk
  
  Some of those arrested over the A66 investigation are suspected of ‘participating in the activities of an organised crime group’, police said
  
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• Teenager in A66 crash that killed two cops was awaiting trial for racially abusing and assaulting officers

  24-08-2026 14:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  Makai Saddington, 18, had been awaiting trial on charges of racially abusing and assaulting police officers
  
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• Man arrested for murder after 'wonderful' great-grandmother dies in burglary at London home

  24-08-2026 14:37 via standard.co.uk
  
  Rose Smith ,75, died in hospital the day after the violent break-in at the propertyin Finsbury Park
  
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• Scottish Labour leader candidate Marra open to party deals at local elections

  24-08-2026 14:35 via standard.co.uk
  
  However, Michael Marra has said he would not accept any deals with Reform Scotland.
  
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• Social tenants should keep gardens tidy or face eviction, Reform chairman says

  24-08-2026 14:34 via standard.co.uk
  
  Lee Anderson said former rules meant social housing tenants had to keep gardens ‘done’ and homes ‘decorated’.
  
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• London Zoo weigh-in: Monkeys, penguins and capybaras among 10,000 animals on scales for annual health check

  24-08-2026 14:33 via standard.co.uk
  
  The London Zoo annual ‘weigh-in’ involves over 10,000 animals across 4,000 species
  
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• Glorifying dangerous driving ‘truly reprehensible’, says PM after A66 crash

  24-08-2026 14:19 via standard.co.uk
  
  Pc Matthew Blades and Pc Tom Clough were killed when a VW Passat – which had been pursued by police – was driven the wrong way on a dual carriageway.
  
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• Ukrainians remember those lost in ‘cruel’ war at Independence Day event

  24-08-2026 14:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ukrainians gathered in Edinburgh as the country marks 35 years of independence.
  
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• Driver escapes unscathed after car crashes into house in Bethnal Green

  24-08-2026 14:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Footage shows the Tesla rammed into a gaping hole at a house on Old Ford Road
  
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• Harry steps down from controversial African wildlife charity

  24-08-2026 13:54 via standard.co.uk
  
  The duke is no longer a board member of African Parks, which last year admitted human rights abuses by its rangers.
  
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• Burnham hits back at Kremlin claim UK is adding ‘fuel to the fire’ in Ukraine

  24-08-2026 13:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said plans to provide Ukraine with blueprints for long-range Scalp missiles would undermine peace efforts.
  
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• Issues in Scottish Labour ‘systemic’, says leadership hopeful Michael Marra

  24-08-2026 13:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Scottish Labour leadership candidate spoke at a press conference on Monday.
  
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• Penguins and capybaras among 10,000 animals on scales for London zoo weigh-in

  24-08-2026 13:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  Every mammal, bird, reptile, fish and invertebrate was weighed, with scales disguised in habitats to ensure animals hopped on.
  
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• Notting Hill Carnival 2026 weather: Downpour threatens to dampen August bank holiday weekend

  24-08-2026 13:25 via standard.co.uk
  
  A series of thunderstorms across the three-day event could dampen the festivities
  
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• Woman admits breaching anonymity of Jeffrey Donaldson victim

  24-08-2026 13:22 via standard.co.uk
  
  Donna Toman faced a charge of publishing a matter which was likely to lead members of the public to identify a victim.
  
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