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• Flynn reveals he resigned as Westminster leader weeks before Holyrood election

  15-08-2026 16:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  Former Westminster leader Stephen Flynn made the comments at Edinburgh Fringe event Political Party with Matt Forde.
  
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• UK Foreign Office issues Godzilla El Nino travel warning for Londoners heading to these countries

  07-10-2026 17:56 via standard.co.uk
  
  For Londoners planning a Christmas getaway or winter holiday, it’s worth checking now how your travel plans could be affected by a powerful El Niño
  
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• Lime spends almost £900,000 on e-bike parking across London amid 'Wild West' concerns

  07-10-2026 17:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  Funding given by e-bike giant for hundreds of parking bays after continued complaints about hazardous parking across London
  
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• King and Sir Elton John enjoy singer Skye Newman’s pre-concert performance

  07-10-2026 17:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  South London-born Newman is due to sing at the new Apple Music Hall on Wednesday evening, just over a week after Sir Elton performed for its opening.
  
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• Footage shows Dexter ‘kill room’ murderer’s hospital bed arrest

  07-10-2026 17:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  Forensics student Benjamin Day is facing a life sentence after luring sex worker Maria Saceanu to an an Airbnb where she suffered 78 knife wounds.
  
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• Drinking in stands at football a bad idea, national police lead says

  07-10-2026 16:55 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mr Roberts, a Manchester City supporter, said getting a ‘beer shampoo’ when a goal was scored was ‘not conducive to a great afternoon’.
  
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• London schools face strike closures as 1,000 support staff to walk out

  07-10-2026 16:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  Members of the GMB union employed are holding a rally in Westminster on Friday in a dispute over London weighting payments
  
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• Two Holyrood committees to ‘dig into the details’ behind planned AI data centres

  07-10-2026 16:24 via standard.co.uk
  
  MSPs on both the Climate Action Committee and the Economy, Tourism and Energy Committee are to conduct investigations.
  
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• Protesters clash and multiple arrests as London demos held on October 7 anniversary

  07-10-2026 16:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  Protesters and counter-protesters clash as Metropolitan Police make arrests after incident outside the Board of Deputies of British Jews office
  
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• Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and cut welfare spending

  07-10-2026 16:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Tory leader promised the party would focus on letting people ‘keep more of what they earn’ if it is returned to power.
  
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• TikTok 'Tube Girl' reveals she spent months in hospital after rare illness with 'psychotic episodes'

  07-10-2026 16:06 via standard.co.uk
  
  The TikTok star has opened up about her four-month hospital stay after doctors eventually discovered a rare form of encephalitis linked to ovarian tumours
  
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• Kemi Badenoch to fight Labour's 'tax grab' on London with cuts to levies on homes and inheritance

  07-10-2026 15:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  ‘There's a view on the Left, which is basically that everything you've got is up for grabs by the taxman,’ say the Conservatives
  
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• Drivers should fund Bakerloo line extension through pay-per-mile scheme, Sadiq Khan told

  07-10-2026 15:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  Benali Hamdache says a "smart" road charging scheme would be a fairer way to fund major transport projects
  
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• University ‘held to account’ after grade error student took own life – family

  07-10-2026 15:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ethan Scott Brown, 23, was wrongly told by the University of Glasgow weeks before his death that he could not graduate.
  
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• Drivers should fund Bakerloo line extension through pay-per-mile scheme, says Green councillor

  07-10-2026 15:10 via standard.co.uk
  
  Benali Hamdache says a "smart" road charging scheme would be a fairer way to fund major transport projects
  
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• London travel news LIVE: Piccadilly line part suspended after signal failure

  07-10-2026 15:06 via standard.co.uk
  
  Major disruption on the Piccadilly line has hit passengers this afternoon
  
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• Drumcree dispute in a ‘dangerous and lingering limbo’ – McDonald

  07-10-2026 15:04 via standard.co.uk
  
  Te Parades Commission dramatically allowed the parade along its traditional route on the Garvaghy Road for the first time for almost 30 years.
  
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• Protesters clash and five arrests made as London demos held on October 7 anniversary

  07-10-2026 14:56 via standard.co.uk
  
  Protesters and counter-protesters clash while Metropolitan Police say five people were arrested after incident outside the Board of Deputies of British Jews office
  
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• Protesters clash and five arrests made as London pro-Palestine demos held on October 7 anniversary

  07-10-2026 14:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  Protesters and counter-protesters clash while Metropolitan Police say five people were arrested after incident outside the Board of Deputies of British Jews office
  
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• Polanski skips City Hall duties as he throws everything at Holborn by-election bid

  07-10-2026 14:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  Green Party leader Zack Polanski has missed a series of London Assembly meetings since launching his bid to become the next MP for Holborn and St Pancras
  
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• Key points from Kemi Badenoch's Tory party conference speech: Inheritance tax, benefit cuts and 'no drama'

  07-10-2026 14:33 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Tory leader vowed to slash inheritance tax and cut benefits as she pitched the Conservatives as the “no drama” party to take on Andy Burnham’s Labour
  
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• Dexter Fletcher making return to acting with part in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen

  07-10-2026 14:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  Fletcher, 60, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by the Prince of Wales on Wednesday.
  
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• Clashes and arrests amid demos on anniversary of October 7 attacks

  07-10-2026 14:25 via standard.co.uk
  
  Protests have taken place in London, with others being held in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
  
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• Five arrests and protesters clash as London pro-Palestine demos held on October 7 anniversary

  07-10-2026 14:20 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Metropolitan Police said five people had been arrested following an incident outside the Board of Deputies of British Jews office
  
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• Police hunt man after phone robbery and assault at London DLR station

  07-10-2026 14:13 via standard.co.uk
  
  The robbery happened on August 17, when a man stole the phone before punching the victim in the face
  
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• Key points in Kemi Badenoch’s speech at Conservative Party conference

  07-10-2026 13:58 via standard.co.uk
  
  Here the Press Association lists the key points from Mrs Badenoch’s speech.
  
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• Radioactive traces found in teeth of stranded whales used to explore their lives

  07-10-2026 13:55 via standard.co.uk
  
  Researchers analysed traces of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing trapped in the teeth of five mammals.
  
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• Badenoch vows to slash inheritance tax in ‘battle for soul of the nation’

  07-10-2026 13:47 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Conservative leader said the next election will be a ‘battle for the soul of the nation’.
  
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• Sir Kevin Sinfield: Rob Burrow would ‘laugh but be really proud’ at knighthood

  07-10-2026 13:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  The rugby coach and motor neurone disease campaigner was one of 60 people to receive honours from the Prince of Wales.
  
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• Moment inferno rips through historic Kingston market place as locals 'woken by heat'

  07-10-2026 13:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  Dramatic video shows fire ripping through the 800-year-old market place in south-west London
  
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