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• Scotland fans optimistic as they arrive in Boston for World Cup

  11-06-2026 21:43 via standard.co.uk
  
  Fans are confident Scotland can do well in the nation’s group stage matches.
  
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• Police appeal after violence breaks out at London Bridge station

  11-06-2026 23:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Officers were called to London Bridge station just before midnight on May 11
  
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• Half a million viral 'squishy' toys seized at Heathrow Airport

  11-06-2026 22:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  Trading Standard officers have stopped 500,000 potentially dangerous ‘squishy’ toys from entering the UK in the last two months
  
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• Al Carns' scathing resignation letter in full as he quits role as Armed Forces Minister over defence funding

  11-06-2026 22:22 via standard.co.uk
  
  Labour MP Al Carns has stepped down from his tole just hours after Defence Secretary John Healey
  
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• Al Carns resigns as defence minister after Healey’s exit over military funding

  11-06-2026 22:17 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mr Carns quit on Thursday evening, telling the Prime Minister he could not defend ‘a level of investment I know to be inadequate’.
  
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• Al Carns resigns: Armed Forces Minister quits cabinet hours after Defence Secretary as Starmer crisis deepens

  11-06-2026 22:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mr Carns joins John Healey in exiting cabinet in protest over funding for the armed forces
  
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• Al Carns resigns: Armed Forces Minister quits Starmer's cabinet just hours after John Healey as PM's defence spending crisis deepens

  11-06-2026 21:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  Al Carns has resigned as Armed Forces Minister hours after Defence Secretary John Healey also quit over Sir Keir Starmer’s military spending plan.
  
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• Al Carns resigns as defence minister, after Healey’s exit over military funding

  11-06-2026 21:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  Al Carns quit on Thursday evening, telling the Prime Minister he could not defend ‘a level of investment I know to be inadequate’.
  
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• Counter-terrorism police leading probe into stabbing at school

  11-06-2026 21:22 via standard.co.uk
  
  Two pupils, both aged 14, and a male member of staff, 27, were injured in a knife attack.
  
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• Pro-Palestine protesters stage demonstration during evening rush hour at Waterloo station

  11-06-2026 20:24 via standard.co.uk
  
  Protesters stood over a large banner displaying portraits which appear to be of members of the ‘Filton 25’
  
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• ‘Beyond unacceptable’ that nurse was chased on way to hospital by masked men

  11-06-2026 20:19 via standard.co.uk
  
  ‘This is racism, pure and simple,’ Unison representative Patricia McKeown said.
  
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• Trump calls off fresh strikes hours after threatening to hit Iran ‘very hard’

  11-06-2026 20:11 via standard.co.uk
  
  The President had earlier warned he would seize control of the country’s oil industry.
  
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• Information given about Dundee incident did not fully reflect situation – police

  11-06-2026 19:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police initially said the incident, in the Lochee area of the city last year, had involved a Bulgarian couple ‘approached by youths’.
  
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• Defence funding plan ‘will provide’ enough for armed forces, Starmer insists

  11-06-2026 19:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the Defence Investment Plan would deliver ‘an unprecedented increase in defence spending in a sustainable way’.
  
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• Mystery of man who went missing 38 years ago in London  - as police issue e-fit of what he could look like now

  11-06-2026 19:20 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ian Bushell has been missing for nearly four decades
  
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• Donaldson denies claim he treated alleged rape victim ‘like an object’

  11-06-2026 18:29 via standard.co.uk
  
  The former DUP leader was giving evidence at his sexual offences trial at Newry Crown Court.
  
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• All residents removed from asylum hotel in Epping, says council

  11-06-2026 18:18 via standard.co.uk
  
  Last year, The Bell Hotel became the focus of protests after hotel resident Hadush Kebatu sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl.
  
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• Two children die as measles spreads with hundreds of cases in London so far this year

  11-06-2026 17:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  Enfield, Haringey and Islington have seen the most cases of the virus in the capital
  
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• Ole & Steen ordered to pay £34,000 over 'serious hygiene failings' after Westminster council investigation

  11-06-2026 17:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ole & Steen was prosecuted by Westminster town hall, which found that the company knew there was a serious mouse infestation at its Haymarket site but failed to act
  
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• Charles braves downpour to meet football club’s mascot

  11-06-2026 17:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  The King was met by a crowd shielding under umbrellas before laughing with Grimsby Town FC staff.
  
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• Jury shown CCTV footage of attack on children in Dublin

  11-06-2026 17:37 via standard.co.uk
  
  Riad Bouchaker, 52, has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder.
  
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• Bulgarian man guilty of assaulting 12-year-old girl

  11-06-2026 17:37 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ilia Belov, 22, was also found convicted of behaving in a ‘threatening or abusive manner’ towards four girls, all of whom were aged between 12 and 14.
  
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• Belfast stabbing victim’s condition ‘improving’ and he may soon come out of coma

  11-06-2026 17:23 via standard.co.uk
  Stephen Ogilvie lost his left eye and suffered deep cuts to his head, face and back in a stabbing attack on Monday night.
  
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• South London council sues architects for £5m over 'leaking' Canada Water library

  11-06-2026 17:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  The £14 million library is allegedly ‘rotting away’ due to leaks in the roof
  
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• E-fit released after attempted rape in west London park

  11-06-2026 17:06 via standard.co.uk
  
  A woman in her 20s was attacked by a man in Walpole Park in Ealing in January
  
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• Government’s cost-of-living champion urges Labour to cut pensions triple lock

  11-06-2026 16:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  Iceland’s executive chairman Lord Walker of Broxton said the state pension policy was unaffordable.
  
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• Swinney warns of ‘rising tide of hateful rhetoric’ in wake of unrest

  11-06-2026 16:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  The First Minister has accused Reform UK of ‘stirring up of hatred within our society’.
  
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• Southeast London locals fight plans to turn former bank branch into 24-hour slots centre

  11-06-2026 16:26 via standard.co.uk
  
  The unit has remained vacant since the HSBC branch closed its doors in 2022
  
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• William comforts mental health charity user overwhelmed when praising its work

  11-06-2026 16:16 via standard.co.uk
  
  The prince visited East Anglia to learn about a pilot by Norfolk and Waveney Mind to support workers on the Sandringham estate and wider area.
  
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• Schools praised for being ‘bedrocks of safety’ for pupils amid disorder

  11-06-2026 16:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  Homes and vehicles have been set on fire by rioters, with people targeted based on their race, in chaotic scenes of protest Belfast.
  
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