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• Users report problems with Google Drive

  21-10-2026 17:49 via The Standard News
  
  Hundreds of reports were flagged in the UK over a 90-minute period, according to Downdetector.com
  
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• Vitamin gummies can cost more than tablets despite fewer nutrients – Which?

  22-10-2026 01:01 via The Standard News
  
  Which? said shoppers are paying ‘hundreds of pounds more than they need to’ by selecting gummy and spray options rather than tablets and capsules.
  
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• Transport for London sets out plans for all newly licensed minicabs to be fully electric by 2028

  22-10-2026 01:01 via The Standard News
  
  TfL proposals aim to cut harmful emissions from London's minicabs, with wheelchair-accessible vehicles given an extra two years to make the switch
  
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• Sadiq Khan slams Brexit and Donald Trump as he pushes for Britain to rejoin EU

  22-10-2026 01:01 via The Standard News
  
  The Mayor of London stressed closer ties to Europe were more vital then ever as Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine rages on andTrump appears to have ‘unsettling ambivalence’ towardssecurity on the continent
  
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• MI5 feared disruption of George VI coronation

  22-10-2026 01:01 via The Standard News
  
  Newly- released files show Communist Party activists were monitored in run-up to the crowning of the new King.
  
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• Four contenders make City of Culture shortlist for 2029

  22-10-2026 01:01 via The Standard News
  
  Blackpool, Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Wrexham will receive at least £125,000 to take forward their bids.
  
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• Consumer confidence tumbles ahead of Budget

  22-10-2026 01:01 via The Standard News
  
  Expectations for the state of the economy over the next three months fell from minus 34 to minus 40 this month, according to new figures.
  
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• Badenoch: Indecision over Harper killers’ release made police jobs harder

  21-10-2026 23:00 via The Standard News
  
  The Tory leader will address the Police Federation.
  
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• Top Secret Comedy Club that hosted Rob Beckett and Katherine Ryan plans new London venue near Fleet Street

  21-10-2026 20:51 via The Standard News
  
  Top Secret Comedy Club is looking to open a site just off Fleet Street on 10 Fetter Lane
  
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• ‘IRA lawyers’ comment blasted as ‘shameful’ by NI First Minister

  21-10-2026 20:51 via The Standard News
  
  Conservative Party MP Sir David Davis made the reference during a debate on the Legacy Bill in the Commons earlier this week.
  
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• Enfield murder: Man shot dead at London pub is named as police hunt mystery person 'in possible disguise'

  21-10-2026 20:47 via The Standard News
  
  Erdem Mustafa, 35, was shot dead in the Sun and Woolpack pub in Enfield on Monday
  
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• Man rushed to hospital after Pizza Hut sign crashes down on him in busy London street

  21-10-2026 20:46 via The Standard News
  
  A man was rushed to hospital after a Pizza Hut sign came crashing down on him on South Road, Southall
  
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• Attention moves to Rosebank as Andy Burnham defends Jackdaw approval

  21-10-2026 20:42 via The Standard News
  
  Gas from the Jackdaw field will start flowing within weeks.
  
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• Sinn Féin leaders interviewed by police over protest participation

  21-10-2026 19:24 via The Standard News
  
  Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill attended Musgrave PSNI station in Belfast on Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• All London rail closures over Christmas and New Year in full as Network Rail carry out £152m upgrade works

  21-10-2026 19:09 via The Standard News
  
  Network Rail will carry out a £152million programme of planned engineering works over the festive period
  
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• More than 1,000 object to 'monstrous' tower block plans in west London

  21-10-2026 18:43 via The Standard News
  
  Planning permission was originally granted for 213 homes in 2020, but the developer wants to increase that number to 287
  
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• London Press Club Awards 2026: Full list of winners as 'vintage year for scoops' celebrated

  21-10-2026 18:01 via The Standard News
  
  Dozens of the media industry’s most influential figures gathered for the annual awards at Stationer’s Hall
  
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• £3.7bn plan to halt sewage pollution in Lake District ‘jewel’ Windermere

  21-10-2026 17:58 via The Standard News
  
  The investment would transform the sewage system around England’s largest natural lake where climate change is worsening impacts of pollution.
  
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• Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson to be interviewed by Met over ‘rape in Parliament’

  21-10-2026 17:35 via The Standard News
  
  Jailed Jeffrey Donaldson is accused of attacking a woman in Westminster in 2016
  
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• Sinn Féin leaders attend police station for interview over protest participation

  21-10-2026 17:34 via The Standard News
  
  Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill are being interviewed at Musgrave PSNI station in Belfast.
  
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• Mystery of Westminster Abbey skeleton 'solved'

  21-10-2026 17:29 via The Standard News
  
  For over 150 years, historians have hotly debated the identity of the Westminster skeleton - but now, we may finally know his name...
  
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• Who is 'London's batman'? Masked 'saviour' gives thousands to strangers in random acts of kindness

  21-10-2026 17:01 via The Standard News
  
  Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s London’s Batman... swooping in to pay for petrol, parking fines and even pothole repairs
  
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• Who is John Healey? Andy Burnham's Chancellor set to unveil first Budget

  21-10-2026 16:57 via The Standard News
  
  John Healey served in the Blair and Brown governments as well as the shadow cabinets of Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn
  
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• Ex-DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson accused of 2016 rape inside Westminster

  21-10-2026 16:57 via The Standard News
  
  Met Police are investigating a report passed on by officers in Northern Ireland.
  
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• Is Google Drive down? London users report problems with shared drives

  21-10-2026 16:46 via The Standard News
  
  Hundreds of reports have been flagged in the UK since shortly after 2.30pm, according to Downdetector.com
  
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• Murderer says he would have killed again but ‘I totally get family’s pain now’

  21-10-2026 16:26 via The Standard News
  
  William Dunlop, now 63, strangled Julie Hogg in Billingham, County Durham, in 1989 and hid her mutilated body behind a bath panel.
  
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• Reform says it has reported ITV to the police over undercover investigation

  21-10-2026 16:25 via The Standard News
  
  Zia Yusuf announced Reform would also launch a legal challenge againstmultiple ITV journalists and the broadcaster’s board.
  
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• Karl Turner has Labour whip restored on ‘probationary basis’

  21-10-2026 16:22 via The Standard News
  
  The Hull East MP acknowledged his approach to voicing concerns over Government plans to curb jury trials had been ‘overly robust’.
  
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• Algerian migrant jailed for ripping £65,000 watch from tourist outside Sotheby's

  21-10-2026 16:18 via The Standard News
  
  Txomin Huare-Place has been jailed for two years and nine months after tearing the watch from Axel Schwan’s wrist in 2024
  
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• Algerian migrant jailed for ripping £65,000 watch from tourist outside Sotheby's

  21-10-2026 16:18 via The Standard News
  
  Txomin Huare-Place has been jailed for two years and nine months after tearing the watch from Axel Schwan’s wrist in 2024
  
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