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• Manchester Arena bombing survivor ‘broken’ by plotter’s prison attack

  16-04-2025 06:40 via standard.co.uk
  
  Martin Hibbert wrote to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood saying Hashem Abedi’s attack on prison guards was a ‘catastrophic failure’ of duty.
  
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• Double stabbing suspect shot by armed police

  15-05-2025 00:17 via standard.co.uk
  
  Officers were called to a report that a man and a woman had been stabbed in Huyton, Merseyside.
  
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• Sheffield’s Leadmill loses eviction battle in ‘heartbreaking moment’

  14-05-2025 23:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  The famous music venue confirmed it has lost its appeal against an eviction notice by its landlord, the Electric Group.
  
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• Royal Navy commander removed from role over allegations of sexual behaviour

  14-05-2025 23:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  Lieutenant Commander Martyn Mayger took charge of the warship HMS Tyne in February.
  
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• ‘Lives at risk’, warns domestic abuse tsar over Government’s prison recall plans

  14-05-2025 23:13 via standard.co.uk
  
  Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced emergency reforms.
  
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• UK does not need to be a ‘supplicant’ to EU in forthcoming talks – Badenoch

  14-05-2025 23:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Conservative leader will claim that ‘Eurocrats in Brussels have had a 10-year tantrum over Brexit’.
  
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• King meets social influencer teacher dubbed the ‘pied piper’ at garden party

  14-05-2025 22:58 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Buckingham Palace garden party had the theme of education and skills.
  
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• More inmates to be released early under measures to cut prison overcrowding as jails set to be full by November

  14-05-2025 22:35 via standard.co.uk
  
  Three new prisons will be built and new recall measures will be introduced in a bid to manage the jail population
  
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• TV presenter accuses police officer of sexual misconduct

  14-05-2025 21:16 via standard.co.uk
  
  Jackie Adedeji has described the police misconduct investigation she was part of as ‘traumatising’.
  
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• MPs push for Russian asset seizures as Government targets tech and diamond trade

  14-05-2025 21:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sanctions are ‘a powerful tool in our armoury’, Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty said.
  
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• David Lammy denies claim he dodged £590 taxi fare on trip to French ski resort with wife - as driver charged with theft

  14-05-2025 21:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Foreign Secretary has vehemently denied any wrongdoing, insisting that the ‘fare was paid in full’
  
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• Climate change is damaging capital's trees, experts warn London Assembly

  14-05-2025 20:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  Warning to London Assembly comes as experts acknowledge a ‘really big cultural shift’ in the public’s attitude towards trees
  
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• BBC reporter denies excluding ‘unhelpful comments’ about Adams claim

  14-05-2025 20:11 via standard.co.uk
  
  Jennifer O’Leary denied taking out statements from the Spotlight programme to emphasise the claim against Gerry Adams.
  
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• Man arrested on suspicion of drug driving after woman hit by car in Finsbury Park

  14-05-2025 20:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The collision happened shortly after 9pm on Tuesday, the Met Police said
  
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• More emergency measures to cut jail overcrowding before ‘zero capacity’ reached

  14-05-2025 19:19 via standard.co.uk
  
  Legislation to bring in the changes is expected to be introduced in the coming weeks.
  
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• Cryptosporidium outbreak at Cowbridge farm reaches 81 cases

  14-05-2025 19:13 via standard.co.uk
  
  Public health officials urge farm visitors to wash hands after petting animals as more cases linked to animal feeding sessions emerge.
  
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• Cassie tells Diddy trial that rap mogul trapped her in abuse with threat to release 'freak off' sex videos

  14-05-2025 19:02 via standard.co.uk
  
  R&B star gives more harrowing evidence as she returns to the witness stand in New York
  
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• Call for action to protect prison officers ‘before there is a fatality’

  14-05-2025 18:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  A prison officers’ union has called for urgent action after attacks at two jails left prison officers injured.
  
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• Cosmetic surgery being conducted in ‘living rooms and Airbnbs’, MPs hear

  14-05-2025 18:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  There have been calls for legislation which would mean only qualified surgeons can conduct certain procedures.
  
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• Definition of Troubles victim compensation scheme ‘very restrictive’ – McAlinden

  14-05-2025 18:48 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mr Justice McAlinden, president of the Victims’ Payment Board said he regrets those excluded by the scheme.
  
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• Prisoner ‘called Emily Maitlis scornful in letters breaching restraining order’

  14-05-2025 18:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Edward Vines is on trial accused of breaching a restraining order against broadcaster Emily Maitlis and her parents.
  
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• Driest spring in over 100 years continues as farmers hope for ‘meaningful’ rain

  14-05-2025 18:41 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Met Office said dry and warm conditions look set to persist through this week and into the weekend.
  
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• Measures to establish state-owned GB Energy on verge of becoming law

  14-05-2025 18:11 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Great British Energy Bill is ready for royal assent.
  
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• Former Met sergeant due in court accused of indecent exposure and upskirting

  14-05-2025 18:03 via standard.co.uk
  
  Christopher Herd will appear at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Friday.
  
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• William describes grief as the ‘very worst pain’ as he backs charity merger

  14-05-2025 17:56 via standard.co.uk
  
  Child Bereavement UK, of which William is patron, is to join forces with Winston’s Wish.
  
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• MPs with medical backgrounds urge assisted dying support after Bill criticism

  14-05-2025 17:55 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is back in the Commons for debate on Friday.
  
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• TfL reveals why it shunned social media warning to passengers about Tube power cut chaos

  14-05-2025 17:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  Passenger watchdog says more could have been done to warn passengers after thousands were stranded on Underground and Elizabeth line
  
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• Nothing can ‘put right’ infected blood delay damage, minister says

  14-05-2025 17:52 via standard.co.uk
  
  More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with viruses, including HIV and hepatitis C, after receiving contaminated blood.
  
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• Police inform family of man missing since December after body found in reservoir near Heathrow Airport

  14-05-2025 17:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  Glen Godfrey was last seen on Staines Moor in December 2024, sparking a major search operation
  
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• Police given more time to quiz arson suspect over fires at Keir Starmer-linked properties in north London

  14-05-2025 17:36 via standard.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister told Parliament the incidents were ‘an attack on all of us’
  
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