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• Sara Sharif’s father felt ‘world crushed’ as he held her lifeless body

  08-11-2024 14:42 via standard.co.uk
  
  Urfan Sharif is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of the 10-year-old’s murder.
  
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• Chasing teenager ‘left behind’ during murderous attack on boys, jury hears

  08-11-2024 17:17 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mason Rist, 15, and Max Dixon, 16, died from stab wounds.
  
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• COP29: What is it and where is it being held?

  08-11-2024 17:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  The annual conference kicks off in Azerbaijan on Monday, 11 November
  
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• People smugglers who hid Afghan family in rubbish-filled van jailed

  08-11-2024 17:14 via standard.co.uk
  
  The youngest child was ‘extremely unwell and drifting in and out of consciousness’ when the family were discovered by Border Force officers in France.
  
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• MP Mike Amesbury due to appear in court in December

  08-11-2024 17:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Runcorn and Helsby MP is scheduled to appear at Chester Magistrates’ Court on Monday December 30, police have said.
  
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• Manchester Arena survivors damages ruling is ‘message to conspiracy theorists’

  08-11-2024 17:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  Martin Hibbert and his daughter Eve sued Richard Hall over his claims in several videos and a book that the attack was a hoax.
  
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• Scientists amazed as zoo elephant uses water hose to shower herself

  08-11-2024 17:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mary, an Asian elephant at Berlin Zoo, has been dubbed ‘the queen of showering’.
  
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• Chimps perform better at complex tasks when an audience is watching – study

  08-11-2024 17:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Findings suggest ‘audience effect’ predates the development of human societies based on reputation, researchers say.
  
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• Women and children among latest arrivals on small boats crossing Channel

  08-11-2024 16:58 via standard.co.uk
  
  The latest figures bring the total for the year so far to 31,975.
  
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• Fact check: Manipulated video of Sir Keir Starmer originally showed Team GB call

  08-11-2024 16:43 via standard.co.uk
  
  Social media clip showing call between PM and Donald Trump has been manipulated with editing and new audio.
  
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• Car meets ‘scourge of the Earth’, grieving father says after killer sentenced

  08-11-2024 16:43 via standard.co.uk
  
  Damian Corfield said the sentencing of his son’s killer should be a warning to anyone thinking of taking part in such events.
  
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• Paedophile taekwondo coach who sexually assaulted two young children jailed for nine years

  08-11-2024 16:40 via standard.co.uk
  
  Diego Solarte, 44, sexually assaulted two young children and then lied about vile attacks
  
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• UK needs to be ‘critical friend’ to Trump, says Davey

  08-11-2024 16:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Lib Dem leader called the president-elect a ‘dangerous, destructive demagogue’ this week after US voters returned him to the White House.
  
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• Woman plunged to her death from sixth-floor Hackney flat while trying to unblock broken drainpipe

  08-11-2024 16:35 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police heard that neighbours had been climbing onto their balconies to unblock pipes
  
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• Trevor Sorbie: Hairdresser to the rich and famous

  08-11-2024 16:21 via standard.co.uk
  
  The TV personality gained fame with the creation of the wedge cut.
  
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• Police hunt for crossbow attacker ‘who may have struck again’

  08-11-2024 16:20 via standard.co.uk
  
  Officers are keeping an open mind to whether three incidents in Bow and Shoreditch are linked
  
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• Rogue London letting agents who conned vulnerable workers and students convicted

  08-11-2024 16:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  Five people have been convicted of 15 housing related offences after an investigation by Tower Hamlets council
  
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• Man charged over IED Ulez camera explosion in south-east London

  08-11-2024 16:11 via standard.co.uk
  
  Kevin Rees, 62, was arrested after an IED damaged the camera in Sidcup on December 6.
  
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• Starmer appoints senior Blair-era aide Powell as National Security Adviser

  08-11-2024 16:09 via standard.co.uk
  
  Jonathan Powell will take over from Sir Tim Barrow in the role based in 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office said.
  
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• Hairdresser Trevor Sorbie dies from cancer aged 75

  08-11-2024 16:06 via standard.co.uk
  
  He gained fame for the wedge cut and his TV appearances.
  
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• What is norovirus, as cases surge with new Kawasaki variant?

  08-11-2024 15:57 via standard.co.uk
  
  The new variant is said to have come from Japan
  
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• Irish parliament dissolved for general election

  08-11-2024 15:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  Irish premier Simon Harris said it had been the honour of his life to serve as Taoiseach.
  
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• Dangerous driver who killed teenagers while ‘showing off’ at car meet is jailed

  08-11-2024 15:45 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Nissan Skyline Dhiya Al Maamoury was driving had been imported from Japan and heavily modified before the fatal collision in Oldbury in 2022.
  
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• Deposit return scheme ‘misrepresented’ to waste firm by ministers, court told

  08-11-2024 15:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  Biffa is suing the Scottish Government for a sum in the region of £160 million after the scheme collapsed.
  
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• What is norovirus? Cases surge as new Kawasaki variant sweeps the UK

  08-11-2024 15:37 via standard.co.uk
  
  The new variant is said to have originated in Japan
  
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• Vladimir Putin trying to get in Donald Trump's head to 'manipulate' him with flattery, says former MI6 chief

  08-11-2024 15:37 via standard.co.uk
  
  The Russian president was accused of ‘classic spy bluster’ with his praise for the US president elect as a ‘real man’
  
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• What is norovirus? Cases surge as new Kawasaki variant sweeps the country

  08-11-2024 15:35 via standard.co.uk
  
  The new variant is said to have originated in Japan
  
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• England cricket legend Sir Ian Botham rescued from shark and crocodile-infested waters by former rival Merv Hughes

  08-11-2024 15:34 via standard.co.uk
  
  The retired all-rounder was on a fishing trip with his former Australian cricket rival when he tripped and fell from a boat
  
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• What will happen to Trump's trials now that he has won the election?

  08-11-2024 15:26 via standard.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump, who is set to become the next American president in January, is embroiled in four unresolved legal cases
  
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• Dramatic moment Met officers put phone snatcher to ground in Oxford Street

  08-11-2024 15:25 via standard.co.uk
  
  Sofian Hadar pleaded guilty to theft and was jailed for 11 months
  
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