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• Greggs Stilton bake becomes its second-biggest launch

  17-09-2026 12:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  The high street chain offered customers the chance to swap the Steak & Stilton Bake for a free Steak Bake if they did not like the taste.
  
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• Lambeth Palace withdraws award to Muslim cleric over Osama bin Laden remarks

  17-09-2026 19:50 via standard.co.uk
  
  In a statement, a spokesperson for Mr Ashrafi said his remarks were being reported ‘without their proper context’.
  
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• North London council refuses to remove controversial 'parklet' hated by hundreds of local residents

  17-09-2026 19:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of people have complained about the raised bed, claiming it is a magnet for antisocial behaviour and takes away parking
  
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• Lambeth Place withdraws award to Muslim cleric over Osama bin Laden remarks

  17-09-2026 19:34 via standard.co.uk
  
  In a statement, a spokesperson for Mr Ashrafi said his remarks were being reported ‘without their proper context’.
  
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• Millwall v West Ham: Met to flood south London with 400 police in riot gear amid fears of fan violence

  17-09-2026 19:32 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mounted police and dog units will be part of a major public order operation
  
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• Headteacher at top London private school guilty of dangerous driving after leaving cyclist with broken wrists

  17-09-2026 19:22 via standard.co.uk
  
  Catherine Hitchcock caused the cyclist to to fracture both of his wrists following the incident in Wimbledon in February
  
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• Historic north London pub to reopen as comedy and cabaret venue

  17-09-2026 19:12 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Old Dairy on Crouch Hill will relaunch with a series of Saturday night events featuring pop-up comedy and cabaret shows
  
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• Dublin and London ‘directly challenged’ to prepare for Irish unity referendum

  17-09-2026 19:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sinn Fein president Mary-Lou McDonald has called for action before 2030.
  
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• Charles sounded ‘giddily elated’ in phone call after Diana’s death, Earl Spencer claims

  17-09-2026 19:03 via standard.co.uk
  
  More bombshell excerpts from the Earl’s book Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, were published on Thursday
  
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• Met says investigation into the ‘Putney pusher’ remains ongoing

  17-09-2026 18:32 via standard.co.uk
  
  Nicholas Brandram, who had been arrested in June, was found unresponsive inside a property in Chiswick, Hounslow, on Tuesday evening.
  
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• King sounded ‘giddily elated’ after Diana’s death, Earl Spencer claims

  17-09-2026 18:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  Excerpts from the Earl’s book Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, were published in the Daily Mail on Thursday.
  
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• Business as usual for King and senior royals after pushback to Spencer claims

  17-09-2026 18:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  The King attended a summit on artificial intelligence in Cumnock, East Ayrshire, on Thursday.
  
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• Putney Pusher suspect's family blame Met Police for his death as force defend arrest

  17-09-2026 18:11 via standard.co.uk
  
  Nicholas Brandram’s family say he was innocent and ‘lived with shame, anxiety, humiliation, and extraordinary pressure created by a wholly unnecessary investigation’
  
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• Nato chief: UK needs credible path of yearly hikes to hit defence spending goal

  17-09-2026 18:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The UK has so far only budgeted to hike defence spending to 2.7% of GDP by 2027/2028.
  
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• William and Kate get to grips with shinty during visit to Bute

  17-09-2026 17:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  The couple are on the Scottish island to celebrate its community spirit and volunteering ethos.
  
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• The five pieces of 'evidence' dead Putney Pusher suspect's family claim prove he wasn't jogger

  17-09-2026 17:12 via standard.co.uk
  
  Here are five things Nicholas Brandram’s family claim prove he was not the ‘Putney Pusher’
  
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• Human remains found in south London after wildfire identified as mum-of-three who vanished seven years ago

  17-09-2026 16:34 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police make murder arrest after remains of missing Southampton mother Joanne Sheen unearthed by wildfire in Feltham
  
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• Father of Noah Woods in tribute to ‘sweetest and most innocent little boy’

  17-09-2026 16:07 via standard.co.uk
  
  The three-year-old was found dead after becoming separated from a relative at a playpark on Tuesday.
  
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• Human remains found in south London after wildfire identified as mum-of-three who was missing for seven years

  17-09-2026 16:05 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police make murder arrest after remains of missing Southampton mother Joanne Sheen unearthed by wildfire in Feltham
  
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• Eleanor Donaldson to appeal against trial of the facts verdict

  17-09-2026 15:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Northern Ireland Courts Service has confirmed an application for leave to appeal had been lodged by her legal team.
  
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• Count Binface takes swipe at Zack Polanski as he announces if he's standing in Holborn by-election

  17-09-2026 15:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  ‘It is my solemn duty to challenge major political leaders’, says the ‘space and electoral warrior’
  
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• Sadiq Khan pokes fun at Greens’ Polanski with Urdu answer at London Assembly

  17-09-2026 15:38 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mr Polanski spoke Urdu in a video as part of his campaign to be the next MP for Holborn and St Pancras.
  
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• Remains found after wildfire identified as mum-of-three missing for seven years

  17-09-2026 15:26 via standard.co.uk
  
  Human remains discovered in woodland in south-west London following a wildfire are those of a Southampton mother-of-three who disappeared nearly seven years ago, police said.The Metropolitan Police were called on the evening of August 12 after bones, thought to belong to a woman aged between 25 and 45, were found near Padstow Walk in Feltham after the area was affected by a blaze.Detectives had launched a murder probe, but Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary have now taken over the investig
  
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• Sadiq Khan pokes fun at Greens’ Polanksi with Urdu answer at London Assembly

  17-09-2026 15:22 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mr Polanski spoke Urdu in a video as part of his campaign to be the next MP for Holborn and St Pancras.
  
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• Sadiq Khan pokes fun at Zack Polanski's by-election campaign video by speaking to him in Urdu

  17-09-2026 14:54 via standard.co.uk
  
  Lord Khan answered the Green Party leader’s question in Urdu during Mayor’s Question Time
  
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• King warns of ‘existential dangers’ of AI falling into wrong hands

  17-09-2026 14:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  Charles asked guests at a summit to ensure “our humanity remains sacred”.
  
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• Toddler Noah Woods’ father pays tribute to ‘sweetest and most innocent boy’

  17-09-2026 14:48 via standard.co.uk
  
  Around 1,300 members of the public joined a search to find the three-year-old, who police said was non-verbal and partially deaf.
  
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• William and Kate all smiles as they arrive on Bute

  17-09-2026 14:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  The trip came as a public dispute blew up between the King and Earl Spencer, and his claims in a new book about his sister, Diana.
  
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• Man charged after death of 35-year-old

  17-09-2026 14:17 via standard.co.uk
  
  William Watson, 35, died at the scene in West Lothian on Saturday.
  
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• ‘Putney pusher’ suspect ‘took his own life after immense pressure’ – family

  17-09-2026 14:11 via standard.co.uk
  
  He had been arrested in June in connection with an incident on Putney Bridge in which a jogger shoved a woman into the path of an oncoming bus.
  
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