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• Man charged with arson attacks on Keir Starmer-linked properties and car

  15-05-2025 22:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ukrainian national charged in connection with series of fires in north London
  
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• Campaign group at High Court in fight over Hampstead Heath ponds rules for trans people

  17-12-2025 16:33 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sex Matters is bringing a High Court claim over the arrangements for trans bathers on Hampstead Heath
  
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• Beer expert reveals the eight best lagers you can buy from the supermarket

  17-12-2025 16:29 via standard.co.uk
  
  From Czech classics to Munich favourites, a beer expert has revealed the best lagers you can buy in one UK supermarket.
  
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• Christmas travel 2025: Which trains run on Boxing Day? One route continues service into London

  17-12-2025 16:18 via standard.co.uk
  
  Transport for London and National Rail services around and through the capital will be interrupted during the festive period
  
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• London weather: Met Office issues warning as capital to be battered by heavy rain

  17-12-2025 16:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The rainy weather will be followed by sunshine the next day
  
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• Assassin to serve at least 26 years in jail for Hogmanay shooting

  17-12-2025 15:48 via standard.co.uk
  
  Grant Hunter grinned and gave a thumbs-up to the public gallery as he was taken down from the dock after sentencing.
  
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• Alexander: Review could examine Iran’s influence on Scottish independence debate

  17-12-2025 15:33 via standard.co.uk
  
  The independent review of foreign financial interference is being launched after a former MEP was jailed for taking Russian bribes.
  
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• Stormont Executive agrees to set aside £119m for PSNI data breach payouts

  17-12-2025 15:17 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Executive is also understood to be continuing to discuss plans for its first multi-year budget in more than a decade.
  
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• Appeal to European Court being considered after ruling over Troubles disclosures

  17-12-2025 15:02 via standard.co.uk
  
  It comes after Government won an appeal which prevents a coroner in Northern Ireland disclosing certain sensitive material at a Troubles inquest.
  
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• Timeline of Rob Reiner's murder as gruesome new details emerge

  17-12-2025 15:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Nick Reiner was asked to leave a Christmas party after behaving erratically hours before his parents Rob and Michele were killed
  
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• Revealed: Brits' biggest fears - from heights to spiders

  17-12-2025 15:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Leading psychologist Dr Angelina Archer said most of Brits' biggest fears stem from ancient survival instincts
  
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• Chancellor says she does not believe 1,000 jobs being axed a month in North Sea

  17-12-2025 14:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  The figure came from analysis from an offshore expert at Robert Gordon University.
  
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• Ethan McLeod dead: Macclesfield forward, 21, dies in car crash after game

  17-12-2025 14:47 via standard.co.uk
  
  Young striker tragically lost his life while driving home
  
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• Impact from strike by doctors will continue into January, experts warn

  17-12-2025 14:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Officials have said the strike had come at the ‘worst time’ for the NHS amid rising flu cases and other winter illnesses.
  
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• Constance made ‘personal and direct apology’ to grooming gangs expert

  17-12-2025 14:37 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Scottish Justice Secretary phoned Professor Alexis Jay after being accused of misrepresenting her in a Holyrood debate in September.
  
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• Starmer’s Cabinet branded ‘bunch of turkeys’ in final PMQs before Christmas

  17-12-2025 14:22 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister said Kemi Badenoch is going to be left home alone, following the number of Tory defections to Reform UK.
  
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• Colliers Wood Tube stabbing: Station in lockdown after man 'knifed in head' in fight

  17-12-2025 14:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  Officers scrambled to Colliers Wood Tube station after knife fight
  
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• Flu cases may be ‘starting to settle’ in some areas, NHS chief says

  17-12-2025 14:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sir Jim Mackey gave evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee.
  
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• Celebrity deaths of 2025

  17-12-2025 13:56 via standard.co.uk
  
  A host of big names have passed away already
  
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• 'Globalise the intifada' chanters at pro-Gaza protests in London face arrest, says Met Police

  17-12-2025 13:48 via standard.co.uk
  
  The force is taking more ‘assertive’ action against slogans and messages intimidating Jewish communities in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack
  
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• UK to transfer £2.5billion from Abramovich's sale of Chelsea FC to Ukraine

  17-12-2025 13:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sir Keir Starmer warned the Russian billionaire oligarch to commit the funds or face legal action from the UK Government
  
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• Train hit buffers at London Bridge after exhausted driver had 'microsleep'

  17-12-2025 13:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Investigation criticises staff fatigue at GoVia Thameslink Railway
  
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• Starmer tells Abramovich ‘clock is ticking’ to send Chelsea billions to Ukraine

  17-12-2025 13:31 via standard.co.uk
  
  Roman Abramovich sold the club in May 2022.
  
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• London travel news LIVE: Southeastern services disrupted after urgent track repairs at Bickley

  17-12-2025 13:29 via standard.co.uk
  
  Passengers are advised to allow extra time for journeys after urgent track repairs at Bickley caused cancellations, delays and service changes on Southeastern routes between Bromley South and Orpington
  
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• Protestors at pro-Gaza marches in London who chant 'globalise the intifada' face arrest, says Met Police

  17-12-2025 13:23 via standard.co.uk
  
  The force is taking more ‘assertive’ action against slogans and messages intimidating Jewish communities in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack
  
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• Katie Price’s ex-husband denies rape charges

  17-12-2025 13:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  Kieran Hayler has denied three counts of rape and one of sexual assault, reported to have taken place at an address in West Sussex in 2016.
  
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• Winston Churchill’s great nephew the Duke of Marlborough charged with strangulation

  17-12-2025 13:16 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Duke of Marlborough, Jamie Spencer-Churchill, is due to appear at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Thursday
  
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• ‘Evil Jesus’ who plotted to kill prosecutor detained indefinitely

  17-12-2025 13:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  Martin Ready, 43, was found guilty following a trial last year of attempting to conspire to murder Darren Harty.
  
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• Teenager faces court charged with murder of nine-year-old girl

  17-12-2025 13:13 via standard.co.uk
  
  The boy is accused of killing Aria Thorpe in Weston-super-Mare.
  
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• Arrests to be made for chanting ‘globalise the intifada’, police chiefs say

  17-12-2025 13:10 via standard.co.uk
  
  Their statement comes following the Bondi Beach terror attack on Sunday.
  
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