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• Starmer taking advice on whether Mike Tapp broke ministerial rules with article

  26-06-2026 13:56 via standard.co.uk
  
  He wrote a Times article suggesting foreign care workers should be exempt from the Home Secretary’s plans to tighten settlement rules.
  
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• Repairs to Bedford rail line complete after fatal crash – but it won't reopen until Monday

  26-06-2026 17:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  A ‘complex’ operation has been carried out after the collision in which train driver Shaun Burton died.
  
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• ‘No inkling’ of Donaldson’s abusive behaviour prior to arrest, says DUP minister

  26-06-2026 17:18 via standard.co.uk
  
  Gordon Lyons also denied that loyalist activist Jamie Bryson has been exerting influence over Northern Ireland’s largest unionist party.
  
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• Police officer guilty after embroiling 12 others in ‘toxic’ WhatsApp culture

  26-06-2026 17:16 via standard.co.uk
  
  Paul Street appeared on the BBC’s Britain’s Teenage Drug Runners and Channel 4’s Famous And Fighting Crime documentary.
  
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• No 'Burnham bounce' for Labour in London by-elections as Greens win four out five

  26-06-2026 17:16 via standard.co.uk
  
  Full rundown of results from five by-elections in London
  
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• Thousands of homes without power after thunderstorms as hot weather continues

  26-06-2026 17:04 via standard.co.uk
  
  Thunderstorm warnings are in place on Friday for all of Northern Ireland and 16 counties south of the border.
  
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• Burnham joins campaign launch for Labour’s Manchester mayor candidate

  26-06-2026 17:04 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Makerfield MP, and likely successor to Sir Keir Starmer in Downing Street, was at the launch for Labour’s Bev Craig.
  
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• 'Put air con' on the Tube, Labour MP pleads with Sadiq Khan as London roasts in hottest June day ever at 36C

  26-06-2026 16:55 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mayor of London urged to sort out delays in new rolling stock with air con for the Piccadilly line
  
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• Hackney man admits threatening to 'decapitate' Jewish schoolchildren

  26-06-2026 16:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mohamed Ullah also pleaded guilty to assault and to causing a flood at Homerton Hospital
  
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• Forgiveness ‘not a road I’ll ever walk’, says sister of IRA victim 40 years on

  26-06-2026 16:40 via standard.co.uk
  
  Elizabeth Woods’s brother, UDR soldier Private Robert Hill, was 22 when he was killed by an under car bomb.
  
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• London weather LIVE: Hottest June day ever in capital as heatwave sends temperatures soaring

  26-06-2026 16:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  36C recorded at Heathrow at 2pm on Friday, beating the previous London June record of 35.6C in Camden in 1957
  
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• 'Deeply unfair': Sentencing postponed for four months because court dock too hot

  26-06-2026 16:23 via standard.co.uk
  
  Faizal Razzaq, the getaway driver in the killing of a police constable, was among those to be sentenced
  
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• London weather LIVE: Hottest June day EVER in capital as temperatures hit 36C

  26-06-2026 16:20 via standard.co.uk
  
  36C recorded at Heathrow at 2pm on Friday, beating the previous London June record of 35.6C in Camden in 1957
  
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• Fact check: Post-Brexit polling and Starmer ‘pension’ claims

  26-06-2026 16:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  Round-up of fact checks from the last few days compiled by Full Fact.
  
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• Andy Burnham warned splitting off part of Treasury to the North risks 'failing and wasting time'

  26-06-2026 16:07 via standard.co.uk
  
  ‘Machinery of government changes like this are very disruptive,’ former Treasury Permanent Secretary Lord Macpherson tells The Standard
  
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• June temperature records broken in UK for third day in row as heatwave continues

  26-06-2026 15:17 via standard.co.uk
  
  The London Ambulance Service responded to its highest number of life-threatening emergencies ever in one day this week.
  
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• Moment magistrate who helped run major London drug dealing operation arrested on bed - as he is jailed for seven years

  26-06-2026 15:11 via standard.co.uk
  
  Purshotam Dhillon, 59, was a serving magistrate when he was a key member of a crime ring selling heroin and crack cocaine
  
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• London weather LIVE: Hottest June day record broken again as temperature hits 36.9C

  26-06-2026 15:03 via standard.co.uk
  
  A red heat health warning is in place for London until 9pm, with temperatures forecast to hit a high of 36C
  
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• Record number of conceptions in women over 40, new data shows

  26-06-2026 14:57 via standard.co.uk
  
  The proportion of conceptions ending in abortion has reached an all-time high.
  
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• London weather LIVE: Hottest June day ever predicted for capital as temperature hits 34.6C by midday

  26-06-2026 14:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  Temperature in capital hits 34C at 11am on Friday as record-breaking heatwave set to peak
  
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• London by-elections: Results in full from Haringey, Hackney and Ealing - and what they mean for each council

  26-06-2026 14:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  Here is a full rundown of the results, and why the by-elections were held in the first place
  
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• Downing Street concerned after US pilot avoids UK trial for strangling woman

  26-06-2026 14:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  The case was not investigated by the local police and was instead handed to the US military.
  
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• Golden eagle found with 17 shotgun pellets in body and wings

  26-06-2026 13:57 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police are appealing for information to find who was responsible for Squeagle’s injuries.
  
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• Thunderstorm warnings in place for several counties as hot weather continues

  26-06-2026 13:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  Thunderstorm warnings are in place on Friday for all of Northern Ireland and 16 counties south of the border.
  
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• Senior Kingston councillor suspended and reported to police after 'assault'

  26-06-2026 13:40 via standard.co.uk
  
  Cllr Rowena Bass is alleged to have left her agent’s face bruised following an incident at a Conservative office in East Sheen
  
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• London weather LIVE: Hottest June day ever predicted for capital as temperature hits 34C by midday

  26-06-2026 13:33 via standard.co.uk
  
  Temperature in capital hits 34C at 11am on Friday as record-breaking heatwave set to peak
  
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• Emergency callouts surge as NHS feels the heat from extreme temperatures

  26-06-2026 13:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  Schools have been forced to closed and some hospital machinery has failed in the heat.
  
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• Andrew Tate’s legal action against CPS over names of alleged victims thrown out

  26-06-2026 13:25 via standard.co.uk
  
  Lawyers told the High Court the CPS had acted unlawfully by refusing to tell them the names of their alleged victims until they returned to the UK.
  
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• Co-defendants of man accused of conspiring to drug and rape his wife named

  26-06-2026 13:05 via standard.co.uk
  
  The husband, in his 60s, has admitted some sexual offences against his wife, but will also face a jury on further charges.
  
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• Two teenagers dead in London fireball car crash as third fights for life

  26-06-2026 12:57 via standard.co.uk
  
  Three arrested as multi-vehicle crash in Newham leaves two men, 18 and 19, dead and a 16-year-old boy in critical condition
  
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