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• Potts determined to seize West Ham chance

  21-07-2026 13:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Freddie Potts says he is determined to establish himself in West Ham's first team using his previous Championship experience.
  
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• High costs in Edinburgh ‘little to do’ with new visitor levy, says council

  23-07-2026 13:18 via standard.co.uk
  
  The UK’s first visitor levy is set to come into force on Friday as performers speak out against rising costs.
  
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• London council accused of 'wasting' £138,000 on repainting bridge

  23-07-2026 13:17 via standard.co.uk
  
  A councillor for the area accused the plan of being a ‘cosmetic project’ and called for the funds to be spent in other ways
  
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• Badenoch criticises move to close department and put ‘one guy in Cabinet’ on AI

  23-07-2026 13:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Conservative leader said the lack of business experience in the Prime Minister’s new Cabinet was ‘terrifying’.
  
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• Summer holidays chaos: Heathrow boss tells EU chiefs to end border checks misery for UK holidaymakers

  23-07-2026 13:08 via standard.co.uk
  
  Passengers have faced lengthy queues at airports in Rome, Palma de Mallorca, Corfu, Malaga and Faro,
  
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• Friend of Manchester synagogue attacker jailed for life over MoD terror plan

  23-07-2026 12:48 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mohammad Bashir drove Jihad Al-Shamie on a 10-hour round trip to conduct hostile reconnaissance at the UK’s Defence Academy in Shrivenham last year.
  
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• Police officer who died now being probed over sex offences and attempted murder

  23-07-2026 12:25 via standard.co.uk
  
  Alan Greer, 47, was arrested on April 24 this year after a woman came forward to say she was raped in her home in Glasgow in 2012.
  
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• Saudi prince found dead in luxury Kensington hotel after cocktail of party drugs

  23-07-2026 12:12 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Saudi royal family member was found dead in his bathroom at the Marriott Hotel in west London, an inquest heard
  
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• Hosepipe ban in London: Full list of exemptions as restrictions come in to force

  23-07-2026 12:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  The move was announced by Thames Water earlier this week and follows a number of similar bans in the South-East of England
  
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• Scottish Labour begins search for new leader as Sarwar joins UK Government

  23-07-2026 11:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  Anas Sarwar is leaving Holyrood to become a trade minister in Andy Burnham’s Government.
  
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• Mother of Pc Harper says early release of killers ‘another letdown for Andrew’

  23-07-2026 11:38 via standard.co.uk
  
  It comes after the constable’s widow Lissie Harper criticised the early release scheme as ‘deplorable’.
  
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• Imagine losing your beloved local — you might if the Government doesn’t cut VAT

  23-07-2026 10:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  Today’s announcement of business rates cuts is welcome but VAT is still the big issue facing pubs and clubs, says Tom Kerridge
  
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• Who's in Andy Burnham's Government? Complete list of ministers chosen by new PM

  23-07-2026 10:38 via standard.co.uk
  
  Who are the new ministers in Andy Burnham’s Government?
  
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• Business rate cuts must be matched for the rest of the UK – charity

  23-07-2026 10:31 via standard.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced rates will be cut by 20% for pubs, clubs and live music venues across England from April next year,
  
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• Essex sea tragedy LIVE: Teenage girl and woman die 'trying to save child' off West Mersea beach

  23-07-2026 10:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  ‘We have responded to a tragic incident on West Mersea beach,’ says the local coastguard rescue team
  
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• Santander contacts almost 150,000 customers under strain from energy bills

  23-07-2026 10:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  The bank identified 146,000 vulnerable customers who are likely to be spending over 10% of their monthly income on energy.
  
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• What's the future for London Stadium and West Ham: month of away games and more concerts?

  23-07-2026 10:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  More concerts, women’s football matches and making the stadium less ‘sterile’ are among plans to improve West Ham’s ground and raise cash
  
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• What's the future for London Stadium and West Ham: September away games and more concerts?

  23-07-2026 09:57 via standard.co.uk
  
  More concerts, women’s football matches and making the stadium less ‘sterile’ are among plans to improve West Ham’s ground and raise cash
  
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• Nearly £250,000 wiped off average house price in central London in a year in 23% slump

  23-07-2026 09:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  House prices have fallen for nine months in a row in the capital’s centre, according to the ONS
  
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• Essex sea 'tragedy' LIVE: Rescue services race to beach in major response to 'family' incident

  23-07-2026 09:50 via standard.co.uk
  
  ‘We have responded to a tragic incident on West Mersea beach,’ says the local coastguard rescue team
  
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• Nearly £250,000 wiped off average house price in central London in a year in 23% slump, new figures

  23-07-2026 08:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  House prices have fallen for nine months in a row in the capital’s centre, according to the ONS
  
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• Hosepipe ban hits millions of London homes as reservoir levels drop: Everything you need to know

  23-07-2026 08:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ban blamed on combination of ‘prolonged dry weather and heatwaves’, higher than normal demand for water and a lack of forecasted rain
  
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• London hosepipe hits millions of homes as reservoir levels drop: Everything you need to know

  23-07-2026 08:05 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ban blamed on combination of ‘prolonged dry weather and heatwaves’, higher than normal demand for water and a lack of forecasted rain
  
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• Andy Burnham latest LIVE: Business rates to be slashed for pubs and clubs in London

  23-07-2026 07:36 via standard.co.uk
  
  The discount will apply to nearly 32,000 hospitality businesses across England and is expected to save a typical pub some £1,100 annually
  
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• Neighbourhood crime plunges in London as Sadiq Khan slams 'dystopian hellhole' narrative

  23-07-2026 07:20 via standard.co.uk
  
  ‘Neighbourhood crime’ falls 14% with 35,000 fewer offences in a year
  
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• Hackney woman jailed for blackmail in Hong Kong after banker rape claim

  23-07-2026 07:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  Isabel Rose, 26, from Hackney, has been jailed in Hong Kong for six years
  
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• Business rates to be cut by 20% for pubs, clubs and music venues across England

  23-07-2026 07:13 via standard.co.uk
  
  The discount will apply to nearly 32,000 hospitality businesses.
  
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• Tens of thousands of pounds wiped off central London house prices in 23% slump

  23-07-2026 07:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  They have fallen for nine months in a row, according to the ONS
  
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• Family announces public memorial for Ann Widdecombe later this year

  23-07-2026 07:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The 78-year-old Reform UK spokeswoman and former Tory minister was found dead at her home in Haytor on Dartmoor, Devon on July 9.
  
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• Crime plunges by 14% in London as Sadiq Khan hits out at claims capital is a 'dystopian hellhole'

  23-07-2026 07:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Crime is falling across London despite a wave of online claims portraying the capital as a ‘dystopian hellhole’, with figures showing 35,000 fewer neighbourhood offences in a year
  
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