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• Elderly woman, 81, killed in hit-run crash on way to shops in Liverpool

  06-12-2025 17:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Superintendent Siobhan Russell said: ‘Now her family are trying to come to terms with her loss’
  
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• Tube fares hammerblow: Cost of Zone 1 journeys to jump by 6.9% with £1.60 more on Elizabeth line to Heathrow

  11-12-2025 12:54 via standard.co.uk
  
  London mayor Sadiq Khan publishes details of new TfL fares - including first increase in bus fares in years
  
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• Government issues urgent warning over heat pump dryer risk

  11-12-2025 12:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  Owners have been urged to check their model and serial number online
  
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• Three die in north London borough from new synthetic opioid as expert warns: 'We are staring into the abyss'

  11-12-2025 12:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  Cychlorphine is thought to be 100 times stronger than heroin
  
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• Man fired live ammunition through window amid ‘personal dispute’, court told

  11-12-2025 12:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  Nicky Robertson, 39, has admitted targeting the property in Edinburgh in March this year.
  
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• TV and film performers to vote on industrial action over AI scanning

  11-12-2025 12:32 via standard.co.uk
  
  Actors union Equity said it was ‘at the forefront of the fight to ensure working people are protected from artificial intelligence misuse’.
  
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• What are the rules about heading to the US? Everything you kneed to know ahead of the World Cup

  11-12-2025 11:38 via standard.co.uk
  
  The new rules were listed in a new proposal from the Department of Homeland Security
  
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• Dozens of pubs ban Labour MPs as backlash grows over rising taxes

  11-12-2025 11:38 via standard.co.uk
  
  The ‘No Labour MPs’ campaign has spread nationwide as hospitality bosses protest soaring business rates
  
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• VW vans transformed into festive light display delight two-year-old boy

  11-12-2025 11:35 via standard.co.uk
  
  Rory Thorner has been a patient at Bristol Children’s Hospital since he was seven months old.
  
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• Campaigners send legal letter calling for puberty blocker trial to be stopped

  11-12-2025 11:31 via standard.co.uk
  
  Researchers expect to see the first patients available for recruitment in the new year, with results expected in around four years.
  
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• Weight loss drugs for pets: Everything you need to know

  11-12-2025 11:06 via standard.co.uk
  
  Okava Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company, has launched a pilot study of a GLP-1 drug for cats with obesity
  
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• Flu cases in NHS hospitals jump 55% in one week, figures show

  11-12-2025 11:02 via standard.co.uk
  
  The NHS is under strain as it tackles high flu cases, with some hospitals asking people to wear face masks.
  
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• Wes Streeting ‘frustrated’ by ‘technocratic approach’ to governing

  11-12-2025 11:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Health Secretary argued Labour must be better at communicating its achievements and values to voters.
  
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• Londoners reveal what would encourage them to cycle more in the capital: safer car drivers

  11-12-2025 10:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  Cycling levels in the capital are at record levels, but many still don’t want to take to two wheels
  
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• Met Office reveals chances of snow over Christmas as London to enjoy dry spell (at last!)

  11-12-2025 10:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  The last time it snowed on Christmas Day in the capital was in 2023
  
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• Rough sleeping crisis in London is so bad 'I want to scream,' says homelessness minister Alison McGovern

  11-12-2025 10:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of people are sleeping rough in central London in the run-up to Christmas
  
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• Burger King to open 30 new UK restaurants a year

  11-12-2025 10:17 via standard.co.uk
  
  It came as the fast-food chain revealed stronger revenues despite a ‘challenging’ economic backdrop.
  
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• Keir Starmer to chair coalition of the willing call after Trump talks on Ukraine

  11-12-2025 10:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister is expected to co-chair a call with leaders and officials from around 30 nations on Thursday.
  
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• Doctors’ strike over Christmas a different degree of risk, says Wes Streeting

  11-12-2025 08:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Health Secretary has offered to extend the British Medical Association’s strike mandate if it calls off the action over the festive period.
  
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• Girl, 11, left 'speechless' after becoming youngest person to be honoured with MBE

  11-12-2025 08:18 via standard.co.uk
  
  Carmela Chillery-Watson, who has a rare muscle wasting condition, raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for the charity Muscular Dystrophy UK
  
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• Will the BMA call off the doctors strike? New offer raises hopes as superflu threatens to overwhelm hospitals

  11-12-2025 08:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  It comes as Health Secretary Wes Streeting warns a strike in the run-up to Christmas would carry a ‘much different degree of risk’ to other walkouts
  
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• London travel news LIVE: Overrunning engineering work at Victoria station halts Gatwick Express services

  11-12-2025 07:58 via standard.co.uk
  
  National Rail is reporting that the disruption is likely to last until 10am
  
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• Dramatic moment US troops storm oil tanker as Venezuela accuses Trump administration of 'piracy'

  11-12-2025 07:36 via standard.co.uk
  
  ‘We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, large tanker, very large, largest one ever, actually, and other things are happening,’ says US President Donald Trump
  
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• 'Christmas day was a painful reminder of the family I don’t have'

  11-12-2025 07:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  A brunch for philanthropists raises £75K for our appeal — and becomes unexpectedly emotional
  
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• Mary Queen of Scots’ last letter to go on show for first time in nearly a decade

  11-12-2025 07:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The last time the 1587 letter went on display people queued along George IV Bridge in Edinburgh for the chance to see it.
  
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• Incoming Archbishop of Canterbury faces complaint over handling of abuse allegation

  11-12-2025 03:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Dame Sarah Mullally was not informed of the complaint at the time, church authorities confirmed.
  
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• Transatlantic cable equipment and gnome garden among heritage protected in 2025

  11-12-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Historic England has highlighted some of the unusual buildings and places given listed status this year.
  
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• Several GCSE and A-level exams could be taken on screen from 2030

  11-12-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Exams regulator Ofqual is consulting on allowing exam boards to each submit proposals for two qualifications with onscreen elements.
  
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• HebCelt 2025 generated £4.4 million for Outer Hebrides economy, organisers say

  11-12-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  More than 17,000 paying ticket holders attended this year’s festival, which was headlined by Lulu, Tide Lines and Skerryvore.
  
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• Toffee Crisp and Blue Riband can't be called chocolate since recipe change

  10-12-2025 23:24 via standard.co.uk
  
  The bars are now being described by Nestlé as being "encased in a smooth milk chocolate flavour coating"
  
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