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• Nigel Farage 'reported to police over election fraud allegations'

  08-12-2025 15:22 via standard.co.uk
  
  Reform UK leader’s campaign reportedly accused of falsely reporting his election expenses during his bid to become an MP last year
  
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• 'Fit and well' Brit suffers stroke from daily energy drink habit

  10-12-2025 17:13 via standard.co.uk
  
  An otherwise healthy man had a stroke after drinking eight cans a day, sparking calls for tighter regulation.
  
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• Safeguards ‘seriously lacking’ in Holyrood’s assisted dying Bill, warns Forbes

  10-12-2025 17:03 via standard.co.uk
  
  The SNP MSP joined with Labour’s Michael Marra and Tory Edward Mountain to raise concerns about the proposed legislation.
  
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• Who was John Smyth? New documentary looks at the serial abuser's crimes

  10-12-2025 17:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  A new documentary uncovers how the serial abuser evaded justice for 50 years.
  
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• John Healey: ‘Full steam ahead’ for Aukus partnership following US talks

  10-12-2025 17:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Defence Secretary said the UK is ‘all in’ on the delivery stage of the flagship security agreement.
  
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• Earliest known evidence of human fire-making discovered in the UK

  10-12-2025 17:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The material, found at at disused clay pit in Suffolk, was described by experts as the most exciting find of their careers.
  
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• Fundraiser launched to send ‘brave’ Arsenal fan, four, abroad for life-saving cancer treatment

  10-12-2025 16:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  Jesse Brown was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma at just 16 months after complaining of abdominal pain
  
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• A cut above: Factory worker breaks world record to peel and slice a pineapple

  10-12-2025 16:40 via standard.co.uk
  
  Dominika Gasparova put her knife skills to the test at the Del Monte factory in Cambridgeshire.
  
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• Bridgerton’s Adjoa Andoh ‘humbled’ to accept an MBE

  10-12-2025 16:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  The actress, most known for playing Lady Agatha Danbury in the Netflix series, was honoured for her services to drama.
  
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• Two online predators face jail for urging vulnerable teenage girls to self-harm

  10-12-2025 16:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  Charlie Johnson and Prince Singh urged vulnerable teenage girls to ‘brand’ themselves
  
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• OPINION - Polanski’s snobbery exposes the Greens’ hollow populism - Labour’s Uma Kumaran

  10-12-2025 16:07 via standard.co.uk
  The Greens talk progress but Zack Polanski only delivers put-downs, says Labour MP for Stratford and Bow Uma Kumaran
  
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• Fabric which changes colour in response to radiation to be sent into space

  10-12-2025 15:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  It will be launched from one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets in February.
  
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• King hears of persecuted Christians during service at Westminster Abbey

  10-12-2025 15:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe told the story of his friend Pierre Claverie, Bishop of Oran, Algeria, who was killed in 1996.
  
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• Sperm with cancer-causing gene used to father nearly 200 children

  10-12-2025 15:40 via standard.co.uk
  
  A ‘small number’ of British families have been affected, the investigation revealed
  
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• McDonald's pulls 'awful' AI-generated Christmas advert after backlash

  10-12-2025 15:37 via standard.co.uk
  
  The video was widely criticised for its crude use of AI and message that Christmas is ‘the most terrible time of the year’
  
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• OPINION - 'Zack Polanski’s bum blunder reveals his true colours' - Labour’s Uma Kumaran

  10-12-2025 15:31 via standard.co.uk
  The Greens talk progress but Zack Polanski only delivers put-downs, says Labour MP for Stratford and Bow Uma Kumaran
  
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• Boy tells trial of Yousaf’s brother-in-law he ‘can’t remember’ police interview

  10-12-2025 15:24 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ramsay El-Nakla is on trial at the High Court in Edinburgh along with co-accused Stephen Stewart, Victoria McGowan and Jennifer Souter.
  
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• Woman whose ex killed sister and her children says their futures were stolen

  10-12-2025 15:18 via standard.co.uk
  
  Antonia Gawith’s sister Bryonie Gawith and her three children were killed when Antonia’s vengeful former partner Sharaz Ali set fire to their house.
  
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• OPINION - 'Zach Polanski’s bum blunder reveals his true colours' - Labour’s Uma Kumaran

  10-12-2025 15:17 via standard.co.uk
  The Greens talk progress but Zack Polanski only delivers put-downs, says Labour MP for Stratford and Bow Uma Kumaran
  
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• Trump tirade against Sadiq Khan slammed by Starmer who says he's hugely proud of Mayor of London

  10-12-2025 14:58 via standard.co.uk
  
  The US president lashed out at Sir Sadiq saying he is a ‘horrible, vicious, disgusting mayor’
  
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• Man murdered ex-partner’s sister and her children in house fire

  10-12-2025 14:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sharaz Ali killed Bryonie Gawith and her three young children when he set fire to their house in a revenge attack on his ex-partner, Bryonie’s sister
  
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• Government urged to restrict ‘toxic’ social media algorithms

  10-12-2025 14:33 via standard.co.uk
  
  Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said hate and misinformation was being spread through communities by these algorithms.
  
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• Teen left with gaping hole in leg after false widow spider bit him while searching for his lost cat

  10-12-2025 14:29 via standard.co.uk
  
  Robert Saniola-Burlton, 16, was left with an infected leg after the bite
  
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• Sophie Kinsella dead aged 55: Best-selling author of Shopaholic series dies after brain cancer battle

  10-12-2025 14:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Family pay tribute to author with ‘love of life’ as she passes away after battlewith glioblastoma
  
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• British soldier killed in Ukraine was 28-year-old paratrooper

  10-12-2025 13:59 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sir Keir Starmer paid tribute to Lance Corporal George Hooley.
  
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• Ministers back plans to look at European human rights treaty over migration

  10-12-2025 13:54 via standard.co.uk
  
  Work will begin to adopt the declaration in Moldova in May 2026 following a meeting of ministers in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
  
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• Temporary theatre to be built on former site of infamous Marble Arch Mound

  10-12-2025 13:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  500 seat ‘Marble Arts’ theatre set to open in April 2026 to provide new ‘fresh and exciting cultural space for Londoners’
  
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• AI to almost certainly 'wipe out humanity' within a century, expert claims

  10-12-2025 13:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  One expert says that although the emergence of AI will help in some fields, the reality is that it could have horrific consequences
  
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• Man who killed ex-partner’s sister and her children in fire guilty of murder

  10-12-2025 13:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sharaz Ali killed Bryonie Gawith and her three young children when he set fire to their house in a revenge attack on his ex-partner, Bryonie’s sister.
  
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• UK life expectancy for females returns to pre-pandemic levels

  10-12-2025 13:40 via standard.co.uk
  
  It is too early to know whether the latest figures represent the start of a new upwards trend.
  
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