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• Fact check: Post-Brexit polling and Starmer ‘pension’ claims

  26-06-2026 16:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  Round-up of fact checks from the last few days compiled by Full Fact.
  
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• Hottest June day ever in London as heatwave sends temperatures soaring to 36.4C

  26-06-2026 20:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  The temperature recorded at Heathrow beat the previous record of 35.6C in Camden in 1957
  
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• DUP announces independent review into fresh claims involving Jeffrey Donaldson

  26-06-2026 20:38 via standard.co.uk
  
  It will probe who knew what in terms of claims of inappropriate behaviour by the convicted paedophile before his arrest over historical sex offences.
  
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• William praises air ambulance charity at gala event

  26-06-2026 20:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Wales Air Ambulance Charity was launched on St David’s Day – March 1 – in 2001, and began with a single helicopter flying out of Swansea.
  
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• Police forced to intervene after swimmers invade Hampstead Heath wildlife pond

  26-06-2026 20:13 via standard.co.uk
  
  Barbed wire was put in place in an effort to enforce strict no swimming rules
  
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• Downing Street rebukes Mahmood and Tapp amid row over immigration article

  26-06-2026 20:02 via standard.co.uk
  
  Shabana Mahmood had called for Sir Keir Starmer to sack Mike Tapp.
  
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• Hottest June day record broken again as heatwave peaks at 37.3C

  26-06-2026 19:32 via standard.co.uk
  
  A provisional temperature of 37.3C was recorded in Santon Downham, Suffolk.
  
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• Andy Burnham could become prime minister on July 20

  26-06-2026 19:32 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mr Burnham continues to mull his cabinet picks should he become prime minister.
  
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• Ex-foreign secretary David Miliband hails Andy Burnham’s ‘openness and energy’

  26-06-2026 19:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  The former MP ignored a question over whether he was interested in a return to government if Mr Burnham becomes prime minister.
  
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• London foster carer who raped young girls jailed for 31 years

  26-06-2026 19:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  Bradley Dilsworth, 69, was convicted of 22 child sex offences between 2002 and 2010, including one girl who he raped when she was aged between five and eight
  
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• Wimbledon Tube: Will District line be hit by the chaos which blighted tennis Championships last year?

  26-06-2026 18:57 via standard.co.uk
  
  Fans will be hoping Underground improvements will mean less disruption
  
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• Donald Trump threatens 100% tariff on UK over digital tax on US tech firms

  26-06-2026 18:56 via standard.co.uk
  
  The US president says the move would supercede Britain’s existing trade deal.
  
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• Ex-foster carer jailed for raping young girls after two decades unpunished

  26-06-2026 18:54 via standard.co.uk
  
  Bradley Dilsworth, 69, was convicted of 23 counts of child sex offences against four victims including raping a girl aged between five and eight.
  
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• Rapist Nicholas Rossi who fled to Scotland to escape justice dies in US hospital

  26-06-2026 18:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  The 38-year-old was extradited to the US in 2024, following his arrest at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow in 2021.
  
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• Status Orange thunderstorm warning issued for Mayo, Galway and Roscommon

  26-06-2026 18:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  Thunderstorm warnings are in place on Friday for all of Northern Ireland and several counties south of the border.
  
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• 'Put air con' on the Tube, Labour MP pleads with Sadiq Khan as London roasts in hottest June day ever

  26-06-2026 18:13 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mayor of London urged to sort out delays in new rolling stock with air con for the Piccadilly line
  
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• Newly released video shows Henry Nowak killer ‘lying’ to police officers

  26-06-2026 17:59 via standard.co.uk
  
  Vickrum Digwa said that he had been ‘racially attacked’ by the student.
  
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• Repairs to Bedford rail line complete after fatal crash – but it won't reopen until Monday

  26-06-2026 17:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  A ‘complex’ operation has been carried out after the collision in which train driver Shaun Burton died.
  
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• ‘No inkling’ of Donaldson’s abusive behaviour prior to arrest, says DUP minister

  26-06-2026 17:18 via standard.co.uk
  
  Gordon Lyons also denied that loyalist activist Jamie Bryson has been exerting influence over Northern Ireland’s largest unionist party.
  
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• Police officer guilty after embroiling 12 others in ‘toxic’ WhatsApp culture

  26-06-2026 17:16 via standard.co.uk
  
  Paul Street appeared on the BBC’s Britain’s Teenage Drug Runners and Channel 4’s Famous And Fighting Crime documentary.
  
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• No 'Burnham bounce' for Labour in London by-elections as Greens win four out five

  26-06-2026 17:16 via standard.co.uk
  
  Full rundown of results from five by-elections in London
  
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• Thousands of homes without power after thunderstorms as hot weather continues

  26-06-2026 17:04 via standard.co.uk
  
  Thunderstorm warnings are in place on Friday for all of Northern Ireland and 16 counties south of the border.
  
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• Burnham joins campaign launch for Labour’s Manchester mayor candidate

  26-06-2026 17:04 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Makerfield MP, and likely successor to Sir Keir Starmer in Downing Street, was at the launch for Labour’s Bev Craig.
  
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• 'Put air con' on the Tube, Labour MP pleads with Sadiq Khan as London roasts in hottest June day ever at 36C

  26-06-2026 16:55 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mayor of London urged to sort out delays in new rolling stock with air con for the Piccadilly line
  
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• Hackney man admits threatening to 'decapitate' Jewish schoolchildren

  26-06-2026 16:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mohamed Ullah also pleaded guilty to assault and to causing a flood at Homerton Hospital
  
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• Forgiveness ‘not a road I’ll ever walk’, says sister of IRA victim 40 years on

  26-06-2026 16:40 via standard.co.uk
  
  Elizabeth Woods’s brother, UDR soldier Private Robert Hill, was 22 when he was killed by an under car bomb.
  
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• London weather LIVE: Hottest June day ever in capital as heatwave sends temperatures soaring

  26-06-2026 16:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  36C recorded at Heathrow at 2pm on Friday, beating the previous London June record of 35.6C in Camden in 1957
  
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• 'Deeply unfair': Sentencing postponed for four months because court dock too hot

  26-06-2026 16:23 via standard.co.uk
  
  Faizal Razzaq, the getaway driver in the killing of a police constable, was among those to be sentenced
  
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• London weather LIVE: Hottest June day EVER in capital as temperatures hit 36C

  26-06-2026 16:20 via standard.co.uk
  
  36C recorded at Heathrow at 2pm on Friday, beating the previous London June record of 35.6C in Camden in 1957
  
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• Andy Burnham warned splitting off part of Treasury to the North risks 'failing and wasting time'

  26-06-2026 16:07 via standard.co.uk
  
  ‘Machinery of government changes like this are very disruptive,’ former Treasury Permanent Secretary Lord Macpherson tells The Standard
  
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