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• Drought conditions will continue without ‘sustained rainfall’ in affected areas

  08-09-2026 12:54 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Environment Agency said even a few weeks of wetter weather ‘cannot reverse the impacts of several months of exceptionally dry conditions’.
  
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• Heathrow and Gatwick LIVE: Hundreds of flights delayed and cancelled as air traffic control failure sparks chaos at UK airports

  08-09-2026 18:59 via standard.co.uk
  
  Latest updates as delays and cancellations hit London’s two busiest airports due to problem with ‘flight processing system’
  
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• Abuse of volunteers ‘wholly unacceptable’, RNLI chief says after protests

  08-09-2026 18:55 via standard.co.uk
  
  Peter Sparkes condemned threats made by ‘those who would hide behind a balaclava or a keyboard’.
  
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• Fact check: Image of musicians contains signs of AI generation

  08-09-2026 18:20 via standard.co.uk
  
  The image of five men standing beside a large pond has an October timestamp.
  
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• X to be investigated by Irish media regulator

  08-09-2026 18:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Coimisiún na Meán said it has concerns over X’s compliance with age assurance and parental control provisions.
  
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• Eljamel patients left with ‘horrific’ disabilities after surgery, inquiry told

  08-09-2026 17:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  In her evidence, former MSP Liz Smith said some patients allegedly had the wrong parts of their bodies removed by the disgraced surgeon.
  
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• Heathrow and Gatwick chaos: Full list of cancelled and delayed flights

  08-09-2026 17:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  Check our list of cancelled and delayed flights at Heathrow and Gatwick after air traffic control system failure
  
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• Flight delay recovery caused by technical issue will ‘take some time’ – Nats

  08-09-2026 17:19 via standard.co.uk
  Passengers have been advised to check the latest flight information with their airlines.
  
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• Heathrow and Gatwick LIVE: Flights grounded as air traffic control tech failure sparks chaos at UK airports

  08-09-2026 17:05 via standard.co.uk
  
  Latest updates as delays and cancellations hit London’s two busiest airports due to problem with ‘flight processing system’
  
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• Mayfair restaurant where ‘man had throat slashed’ can stay open

  08-09-2026 17:04 via standard.co.uk
  
  Conditions imposed on The Mistress of Mayfair following incident which saw man charged with attempted murder
  
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• Miliband announces West Bank sanctions as Palestinians face ‘ethnic cleansing’

  08-09-2026 16:47 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Foreign Secretary’s announcement triggered a diplomatic row with the Israeli government and the US.
  
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• Man and woman rushed to hospital after bonfire 'gets out of control' in south London

  08-09-2026 16:43 via standard.co.uk
  
  The fire destroyed three garden sheds at the rear of two houses converted into flats, as well as a small part of a ground-floor flat
  
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• Streeting says UK ‘won’t flinch’ in support for Kyiv as £100m pledged for winter

  08-09-2026 16:24 via standard.co.uk
  
  Defence Secretary Wes Streeting co-chaired the virtual meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group.
  
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• Kendall Jenner buys stake in London drinks brand Trip

  08-09-2026 16:22 via standard.co.uk
  
  London-based Trip is one of the UK’s fastest-growing food and drink firms.
  
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• Flights departing UK disrupted by air traffic control ‘technical issue’

  08-09-2026 16:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  Heathrow Airport, in west London, confirmed it was one of the airports impacted.
  
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• Heathrow and Gatwick LIVE: Flights grounded as air traffic control tech failure sparks chaos at airports

  08-09-2026 16:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  Latest updates as delays and cancellations hit London’s two busiest airports
  
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• Eljamel victims want answers from inquiry, says ex-MSP who backed campaigners

  08-09-2026 16:11 via standard.co.uk
  
  A public inquiry into the disgraced brain surgeon has begun hearings.
  
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• Burnham promises ‘frank and constructive’ engagement with China in call with Xi

  08-09-2026 16:02 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister discussed the ‘importance of pragmatic co-operation’ with the Chinese leader as they spoke on Tuesday morning, Downing Street said.
  
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• Government has ‘given the go-ahead’ to Heathrow expansion, says Chancellor

  08-09-2026 15:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister Andy Burnham has previously expressed concerns over the plans to build a third runway at the west London airport.
  
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• Triple killer’s list of explosives not disclosed by police to Nottingham inquiry

  08-09-2026 15:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  Assaults by Valdo Calocane and notes recovered by police were not disclosed to the Nottingham Inquiry before the evidence finished.
  
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• Stella Creasy MP 'felt like human punch' bag' during Tube carriage abuse - as man who harassed her avoids jail

  08-09-2026 14:49 via standard.co.uk
  
  Clifford Wilby was sentenced on Tuesday after targeting the London MP in a Tube carriage
  
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• Miliband risks backlash from US and Israel as UK announces West Bank sanctions

  08-09-2026 14:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband was scathing about Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as he set out a reset in the UK’s relationship with Israel.
  
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• Sentencing of Bulgarians who assaulted girls in Dundee delayed for second time

  08-09-2026 14:29 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ilia Belov, 22 and Nadjedzha Belova, 20, attacked the girls in the Lochee area of the city in August 2025.
  
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• Heathrow third runway: Full speed ahead for expansion of west London airport, signals Chancellor John Healey

  08-09-2026 14:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  ‘After years of delay, indecision, often vexatious challenge, we have given go-ahead to this project because economic case stacks up,’ says Chancellor
  
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• King makes personal donation to British Red Cross after Nepal flash floods

  08-09-2026 14:05 via standard.co.uk
  
  More than 1,300 people were killed in the disaster and 5,000 are missing, including over 30 British nationals.
  
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• Prince George beams as he arrives for first day at Eton College and gets words of advice from headmaster

  08-09-2026 14:04 via standard.co.uk
  
  The 13-year-old prince was met by the headteacher who told him: ‘Welcome, good luck, enjoy it’
  
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• Public hearings in Eljamel Inquiry ‘a long time coming’, says senior counsel

  08-09-2026 13:32 via standard.co.uk
  
  The first day of proceedings began on Tuesday with an opening address from Jamie Dawson KC.
  
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• Harry and Meghan 'surprised' by letter from Charles which says they are not working royals despite UK return

  08-09-2026 13:25 via standard.co.uk
  
  A spokesperson for the Sussexes said that they were ‘a little surprised’ not to have been told about the letter from Charles in advance
  
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• Local areas with highest and lowest fertility rates revealed

  08-09-2026 13:24 via standard.co.uk
  
  Some 12 of the top 25 local authorities with the lowest fertility rates are in the capital.
  
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• Plea for data centre moratorium sends ‘wrong message’ to investors, MSPs told

  08-09-2026 13:10 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sandy Begbie, of Scottish Financial Enterprise, argued Scotland needs a ‘more proportionate response’ to such facilities.
  
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