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• Cannot run public finances based on who gets most dramatic headline – O’Dowd

  07-04-2025 18:08 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Stormont Finance Minister was responding to comments made by the chief constable last week.
  
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• Easter train journeys to be disrupted by more than 300 engineering projects

  17-04-2025 07:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The most significant impact will be at London Euston, the UK’s 10th busiest railway station.
  
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• Half of vessels in Scotland ‘invisible’ to marine tracking systems – study

  17-04-2025 03:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  The research comes from Heriot-Watt University.
  
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• Simon Armitage ‘excited to be northerner’ getting City of London freedom

  17-04-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  He performed a reading at the ceremony.
  
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• Schools paying for cookers and beds for families living in poverty, leaders say

  17-04-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  More pupils are missing out on extracurricular activities and school trips as parents cannot afford them, it has been suggested.
  
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• Robotics with ‘potential to transform’ surgery approved for NHS use in England

  17-04-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  The new technology could lead to shorter stays in hospital and faster recovery times, experts have said.
  
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• Plan to divert millions of patients from waiting lists with GP service expansion

  17-04-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Ministers said the move will ‘stop masses of people’ going to hospital for ‘unnecessary appointments’.
  
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• Items that reflect ‘elegance and artistry’ of Barbara Taylor Bradford go on sale

  17-04-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  The British-American author found fame with her debut novel, A Woman Of Substance, and went on to write 40 novels.
  
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• Invisible radio wave weapon downs ‘drone swarms’ in trial success

  17-04-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  It is a type of Radiofrequency Directed Energy Weapon.
  
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• Charities and councils warn of children’s social care ‘breaking point’

  17-04-2025 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Organisations providing support for children said they are working in ‘progressively challenging circumstances’.
  
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• Nitrogen-fertilised grassland more likely to trigger hay fever, study suggests

  17-04-2025 00:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  Authors say it is the first study to suggest a clear relationship between nitrogen fertiliser and pollen count and its ability to trigger allergies.
  
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• 'Israel’s soul is being ripped out:' Members of UK's largest Jewish advocacy group condemn Netanyahu's Gaza offensive

  17-04-2025 00:28 via standard.co.uk
  
  More than 30 signatories from the Board of Deputies sign letter condemning the Israeli government for the ‘renewed loss of life and livelihoods’
  
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• 'Israel’s soul is being ripped out:' Members of UK's largest Jewish advocacy group condemn Netenyahu's Gaza offensive

  17-04-2025 00:16 via standard.co.uk
  
  More than 30 signatories from the Board of Deputies sign letter condemning the Israeli government for the ‘renewed loss of life and livelihoods’
  
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• Bracelet by Scottish designer sells for almost three times estimate at auction

  16-04-2025 23:34 via standard.co.uk
  
  It went under the hammer on Wednesday.
  
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• Revealed: From French brie to German sausages, full list of foods British tourists are banned from taking home from Europe

  16-04-2025 23:29 via standard.co.uk
  
  British tourists will not be allowed to bring meat and cheese back from the European Union to prevent spread of foot-and-mouth disease
  
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• Ticket-holder scoops £5.2m National Lottery jackpot

  16-04-2025 22:29 via standard.co.uk
  
  It is the second jackpot win in April after another player pocketed £7.3 million earlier this month.
  
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• Woman, 39, arrested on suspicion of murder after pensioner, 93, found dead at Manchester home

  16-04-2025 21:55 via standard.co.uk
  
  The case has also been referred to the police watchdog due to previous contact with the deceased
  
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• Eddie Marsan dedicates his OBE to his east London community who all ‘stepped up’

  16-04-2025 20:47 via standard.co.uk
  
  Fellow actor Kevin Whately was also honoured at a Windsor Castle investiture ceremony.
  
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• Probe launched after passenger falls from platform and dies at Ickenham Tube station

  16-04-2025 20:37 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Rail Accident Investigation Branch have launched an investigation into the death
  
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• Colossal squid filmed alive for first time since its discovery a century ago

  16-04-2025 20:26 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Schmidt Ocean Institute captured rare footage of the juvenile near the South Sandwich Islands.
  
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• European Union names seven 'safe' countries in plan to fast-track migrant deportations

  16-04-2025 20:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  Migrants from Kosovo, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Morocco and Tunisia are now unlikely to be granted asylum
  
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• Woman hit on golf course by van being pursued by police dies in hospital

  16-04-2025 20:13 via standard.co.uk
  
  The woman, in her sixties, was taken to hospital in a critical condition after the collision last week but died on Tuesday, police confirmed.
  
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• Could high-tech 'damp and mould sensors' act as 'early warning' for London's council tenants?

  16-04-2025 20:12 via standard.co.uk
  
  Pilot scheme found sensors enabled ‘more efficient use of housing officer time’, though some tenants were reluctant to install the devices
  
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• Sadiq Khan urged to identify new allotment sites in London to enable more food-growing

  16-04-2025 20:05 via standard.co.uk
  
  Data shared with the London Assembly reveals significant gap in stock of allotments between inner and outer London
  
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• Murder investigation after woman, 93, found dead

  16-04-2025 19:50 via standard.co.uk
  
  A 39-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the discovery of the pensioner’s body on Wednesday.
  
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• Whole ecosystems ‘decimated’ by weeks of wildfires, charities warn

  16-04-2025 19:29 via standard.co.uk
  
  Vast areas of habitat for small mammals and birds have been damaged across the UK by the recent wildfires.
  
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• Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 3 release date and Star Wars crossover leaks

  16-04-2025 19:23 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Force is coming to Fortnite as part of the game’s next big seasonal update in May
  
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• Subpostmasters say their fight is still on as they are made OBEs

  16-04-2025 19:22 via standard.co.uk
  
  Seema Misra was eight weeks pregnant with her second child when she was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment in 2010.
  
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• More children in northern cities getting places at preferred school – study

  16-04-2025 18:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of thousands of families across England are finding out which primary school their child will be joining this September.
  
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• Surprising wildlife in and around London: where to spot wallabies, parakeets, snakes and more

  16-04-2025 18:33 via standard.co.uk
  
  From Hampstead to Regent’s Canal, here’s a guide to the most unexpected animals living in and near the capital
  
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