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• Scans show changes in brain during pregnancy

  16-09-2024 18:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  The findings show that some parts of the human brain may shrink in size during pregnancy, but become better connected.
  
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• Freedom Pass: cost of providing free travel to older Londoners 'to soar to £500m a year'

  14-11-2024 10:55 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Councils warns that cost of providing free travel concessions to pensioners is becoming ‘unsustainable’
  
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• Police officers to dish out on-the-spot fines for sexual harassment in Redbridge

  14-11-2024 10:47 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police officers will be given the power to fine people on the spot for sexual harassment in Redbridge.
  
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• Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes over Gaza displacements

  14-11-2024 10:44 via standard.co.uk
  
  Israel accused of crimes against humanity over use of forced evacuation orders
  
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• Parking wardens in three London boroughs go out on strike over pay

  14-11-2024 10:36 via standard.co.uk
  
  Parking wardens in south London have walked out this week in a dispute over pay and working conditions.
  
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• Growing backlash against police probe of Telegraph writer over year-old ‘racial hatred’ comment

  14-11-2024 10:30 via standard.co.uk
  
  Columnist Allison Pearson was visited by two officers at her home in Essex
  
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• Thousands of police deployed in Paris ahead of France-Israel football international

  14-11-2024 10:24 via standard.co.uk
  
  Protests broke out in Paris on the eve of France’s Nations League tie with Israel
  
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• King Charles receives birthday wishes from the Royal Family

  14-11-2024 10:22 via standard.co.uk
  
  King is celebrating his 76th birthday, and will mark the occasion with the opening of his first Coronation Food Hub in Deptford later
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg releases duet of Get Low with US star T-Pain in tribute to wife

  14-11-2024 10:19 via standard.co.uk
  
  The duo released the single under the band name Z-Pain.
  
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• Gary Lineker steps down from presenting Sports Personality Of The Year

  14-11-2024 09:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  The BBC has confirmed that last year’s ceremony was the presenter’s last
  
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• Police hunt man who 'bit woman on chest' in Chinatown nightclub

  14-11-2024 09:38 via standard.co.uk
  
  Police have released CCTV footage of a man they wish to trace
  
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• Man 'blows himself up with bomb' outside Supreme Court in Brazil ahead of G20 summit

  14-11-2024 09:34 via standard.co.uk
  
  Vice Governor says it is hoped incident involved ‘lone wolf’ as country prepares to host global leaders
  
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• Minister rejects plea by London civil servants to work 4-four day week: 'We're not living in the 1970s'

  14-11-2024 09:15 via standard.co.uk
  
  Pensions minister Emma Reynolds also dismissed claims that a shorter working week for civil servants would save the Government more than £20million
  
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• British Museum gifted huge collection of Chinese ceramics worth staggering £1billion

  14-11-2024 09:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation to donate 1,700 pieces of Chinese ceramics to the London museum
  
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• Sadiq Khan blames lack of funding as £4.1billion affordable housing programme stalls

  14-11-2024 08:53 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Mayor says more support still needed despite Rachel Reeves giving the capital an extra £100m
  
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• Who is Matt Gaetz, Trump's pick to serve as US Attorney General

  14-11-2024 08:46 via standard.co.uk
  
  Matt Gaetz is a fierce Trump loyalist who was split opinion in his own party
  
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• Which? launches £3 billion legal claim against Apple over iCloud

  14-11-2024 08:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  The consumer rights group believes the tech giant has broken competition law by ‘trapping’ people with Apple devices into using its iCloud service.
  
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• King Charles celebrates 76th birthday with visit to surplus food festival in Deptford

  14-11-2024 08:39 via standard.co.uk
  
  Charles was born on November 14 1948 at Buckingham Palace – the first child of the future Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh
  
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• Inquiry into air traffic control failure calls for earlier notice of disruption

  14-11-2024 08:32 via standard.co.uk
  
  More than 700,000 passengers were affected when flights were grounded at UK airports on August 28 last year.
  
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• Donald Trump makes shock pick of MAGA ally Matt Gaetz for attorney general

  14-11-2024 08:29 via standard.co.uk
  
  Democrats fear ‘weaponisation’ of Department of Justice after firebrand loyalist announced as president-elect's pick as the country's top law enforcement official
  
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• Fireworks blamed for death of baby red panda at Edinburgh Zoo

  14-11-2024 08:06 via standard.co.uk
  
  Three-month-old Roxie died on Bonfire Night
  
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• Dramatic moment tornado hits Marbella beach as thousands evacuate 'extreme' rainfall in Spain

  14-11-2024 08:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  British tourists and expats warned of ‘extreme risk of rainfall’ near Costa Del Sol
  
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• Euston station’s marble columns ‘would fall off’ without bands, rail minister admits

  14-11-2024 07:51 via standard.co.uk
  
  Rail minister Lord Hendy says London Euston is ‘no longer in fit condition’
  
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• John Lewis Christmas advert stars sister in dash for perfect gift at flagship Oxford Street store

  14-11-2024 07:38 via standard.co.uk
  
  Richard Ashcroft, the former Verve frontman, provides the soundtrack with his original song Sonnet
  
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• Met Police chief Mark Rowley warns of 'eye watering cuts to services we provide to London' in funding crisis

  14-11-2024 07:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  The capital’s top officer said he was ‘deeply troubled’ by the situation the force was facing
  
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• London fine dining restaurant "churn" accelerates as costs and tax burden rises ever higher

  14-11-2024 07:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  There were 132 openings over the past year, the third lowest total since the guide launched in 2010, but 84 closures
  
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• Rich nations must double climate finance from taxpayers’ money by 2030 – experts

  14-11-2024 06:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  As world leaders met at Cop29, UN-appointed experts said countries must ramp up climate finance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
  
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• World ‘failing to bend the curve’ on curbing temperature rises, analysts say

  14-11-2024 06:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump’s policies make only a slight increase in warming projections, Climate Action Tracker says.
  
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• UK seeks ‘future-facing’ Saudi defence relationship as Healey visits Riyadh

  14-11-2024 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  John Healey will meet counterparts in both Riyadh and Ankara seeking to bolster regional stability.
  
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• Researchers discover world’s largest coral in the Solomon Islands

  14-11-2024 01:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  The mega coral, which is visible from space is believed to be about 300 years old.
  
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