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• Steve Aiken resigns as Ulster Unionist Party leader

  08-05-2021 13:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mr Aiken, who will remain in post until a successor is chosen, said he had taken the part as far as he could.
  
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• Rwanda Bill sustains fresh defeats as peers demand rethink of asylum policy

  16-04-2024 20:25 via standard.co.uk
  
  The latest Government setback means a continuation of the wrangling over the proposed law aimed at ‘stopping the boats’.
  
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• Sunak's smoking ban clears first Commons hurdle despite major Tory opposition

  16-04-2024 20:24 via standard.co.uk
  
  The proposal would make it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2009
  
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• Sunak urges Netanyahu to keep ‘calm heads’ in Israeli response to Iran attack

  16-04-2024 20:23 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister told his Israeli counterpart ‘significant escalation was in no one’s interest’, Downing Street said.
  
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• Top Tory Badenoch first minister to say she'll vote against smoking ban

  16-04-2024 19:55 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Business Secretary said the Tobacco and Vapes Bill would mean ‘people born a day apart will have permanently different rights’
  
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• Smoking ban will put shopkeepers ‘in firing line’, says Tory MP

  16-04-2024 19:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  Giles Watling described the practicalities of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill as ‘clearly nuts’.
  
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• Birmingham Airport suspends operations after suspicious item reported on Belfast-bound plane

  16-04-2024 19:50 via standard.co.uk
  
  The scare turned out to be ‘a false call with very good intent and the item is not suspicious’
  
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• Ex-Post Office chief not ‘clever’ enough to ask about challenges made to Horizon

  16-04-2024 19:35 via standard.co.uk
  
  David Mills gave evidence to the inquiry on Tuesday.
  
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• Reconsidering Horizon would have put Post Office in ‘crisis mode’, says ex-boss

  16-04-2024 19:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  Former chief executive David Mills said he had not been made aware of complaints about the defectiveness of the accounting software.
  
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• Lady Chakrabarti apologises for ‘becoming intemperate’ after shouting in chamber

  16-04-2024 19:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  The former Labour shadow attorney general issued her apology before asking a question of the Foreign Secretary on Tuesday.
  
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• ‘Overreaching’ ECHR plants seeds of its own destruction, says Lord Cameron

  16-04-2024 19:05 via standard.co.uk
  
  Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton told peers in Westminster there are ‘moments of extreme frustration’ with the ECHR.
  
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• Constance Marten was a ‘lioness’ who loved her ‘cubs’, court told in closing speech

  16-04-2024 18:57 via standard.co.uk
  
  Constance Marten, 36, and her partner Mark Gordon, 49, are on trial at the Old Bailey over the death of their daughter Victoria.
  
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• Birmingham Airport suspends operations over 'security incident' on plane

  16-04-2024 18:56 via standard.co.uk
  
  The scare was reportedly over ‘a suspicious device found on an Aer Lingus flight to Belfast’
  
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• More children gaining places at preferred primary school in many areas – study

  16-04-2024 18:54 via standard.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of thousands of families across England have found out which primary school their child will be joining in September.
  
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• Rwanda Bill wrangling continues as peers inflict fresh Government defeat

  16-04-2024 18:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Lords’ insistence on changing the contentious legislation ensures a third round of parliamentary ‘ping-pong’.
  
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• Timeline of events in how school prayer rituals ban led to High Court challenge

  16-04-2024 18:40 via standard.co.uk
  
  Michaela Community School in north London was taken to court by a student over its policy.
  
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• London travel news LIVE: Bakerloo and District line both hit by severe delays after earlier Euston disruption

  16-04-2024 18:27 via standard.co.uk
  
  There are severe delays on the Bakerloo and District lines this afternoon.
  
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• 'Hardest Geezer' who ran length of Africa reveals next challenge is London Marathon

  16-04-2024 18:20 via standard.co.uk
  
  Russell Cook will be working as a pacer for younger runners
  
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• Vulnerable man, 69, found dead in tent after escaping from mental health appointment

  16-04-2024 18:11 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sydney Piper was supposed to be under constant one-to-one care, but fled and was found in Epping Forest a month later
  
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• US government gives assurances over treatment of Julian Assange, wife says

  16-04-2024 18:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  Judges are now expected to consider the submission from the US authorities, as well as any response from Assange’s lawyers, at a hearing in May.
  
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• Lyrid meteor shower: What to look for in the skies this week

  16-04-2024 18:03 via standard.co.uk
  
  The first big meteor shower of 2024 is nearly upon us. Here’s how to enjoy it
  
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• More London children secure top choice of primary school

  16-04-2024 18:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The number of applications for places at primary schools in the capital has dropped amid the falling birth rate.
  
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• Almost 10,000 children miss out on their first-choice primary school, figures reveal

  16-04-2024 18:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Families were on Tuesday finding out which school their children will start at in September
  
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• Queen calls for ‘pop-up shops’ in schools to help with domestic abuse issues

  16-04-2024 17:59 via standard.co.uk
  
  Camilla’s met young Changemakers from the charity SafeLives at Buckingham Palace.
  
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• Muslim leaders disappointed in ruling for ‘not defending freedom of religion’

  16-04-2024 17:54 via standard.co.uk
  
  Kemi Badenoch’s comments also came in for criticism as ‘playing into a culture war’.
  
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• Beatles Let It Be documentary to be available to public for first time in decades

  16-04-2024 17:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  The documentary caught the dying days of the band
  
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• ‘Hardest Geezer’ announces long-distance running return at London Marathon

  16-04-2024 17:49 via standard.co.uk
  
  Russ Cook said he planned to run the marathon on Sunday for charity despite only finishing his 352-day challenge on April 7.
  
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• Smoking ban a bid by ‘technocratic establishment’ to limit freedom, says Truss

  16-04-2024 17:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  The former prime minister described the Tobacco and Vapes Bill as a ‘virtue-signalling piece of legislation’.
  
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• Driver avoids six-month ban over 'inadequate' 50mph road sign on A20 in Sidcup

  16-04-2024 17:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  Thousands of speeding tickets are believed to have been issued due to a rogue 50mph sign along the road
  
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• Move to shut down Brussels conference ‘extremely disturbing’ – Downing Street

  16-04-2024 17:35 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police attempted to close down the National Conservatism conference following orders from city authorities in Brussels.
  
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