
Teachers will walk out this week after the government failed to avert a strike as firefighters became the latest public sector workers to announce industrial action. Strike action by teacher ...
Matt Hancock has insisted he did not “primarily” go on I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! for the money as he was grilled by Kate Garraway. The former Health Secretary was confronted ...
Actress Eva Green arrived at the High Court on Monday for a showdown with producers over a doomed sci-fi film project, amid claims she had wrecked the production with diva behaviour and “would ...
Residents narrowly avoided injury after a partial building collapse on a busy north London high street on Friday. Firefighters and paramedics rushed to Stoke Newington High Street at 9.30am a...
Vicar of St Mark’s church says she is ‘absolutely heartbroken’ by the blaze. The defiant vicar of a historic church London completely destroyed in a “heartbreaking fire ” on Friday s...
A state of emergency has been declared in Auckland, New Zealand after severe flooding saw people forced to evacuate their homes, and closed the city’s international airport. Dramatic footag...
Passengers on the Elizabeth line have spoken of “nightmare” delays and overcrowding due to infrastructure problems and soaring demand. They shared video footage showing packed rush-hour tr...
The head of Britain’s biggest police force said “painful stories” will emerge as work progresses to get rid of hundreds of corrupt officers. Sir Mark Rowley on Wednesday appealed to the pe...
Tory party grandee Lord Soames of Fletching is facing a possible driving ban after admitting his latest incident of speeding. The 74-year-old peer, who is Sir Winston Churchill’s grandson, wa...
Richmond is the latest borough to call on Sadiq Khan to re-think the upcoming Ulez expansion that is set to cover the whole of the capital. The Lib-Dem controlled council has asked the Mayor ...
Everyone’s at it. ChatGPT, that is. To those not not familiar, ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot launched by the US artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI in November last ye...
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This is the moment a suspected gunman is arrested in a parking lot after allegedly shooting seven people dead in the second mass shooting in California in three days. The suspect was identifie...
Thousands of ambulance workers are staging more strikes as the Chancellor was urged to find the money to pay health workers “fairly” in order to end the walkouts. Up to 15,000 Unison ambula...
More than a thousand ‘bad apples’ have been dumped outside Scotland Yard in protest at a “culture of violent misogyny” in the Met Police. The stunt by leading domestic violence charity ...
The hopes that retailers would have the first good Christmas in three years were dashed on Friday as new figures showed the sector sold far less than expected as shoppers tightened their belts. ...
Love Island ended on an explosive note on Thursday night after Shaq Muhammad and Haris Namani got into a heated exchanged following a session of Beer Pong. The Islanders were seen answering rac...
Two men have been found guilty of murdering a 71-year-old businesswoman in a scam to plunder her life savings of £4.6m. Louise Kam, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, was strangled with a hairdr...
Security guards at Brixton Academy regularly took bribes to let people into shows without tickets, a whistleblower has claimed. Mother-of-two Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, and security guard Gaby Hutchi...
Double the number of nurses will be asked to strike in early February in a bid to increase pressure on the Government , union leaders have warned. The Royal College of Nursing has said that if...
Keir Starmer has refused to rule out scrapping his promise to abolish tuition fees . Speaking on Sunday, Sir Keir was asked whether a Labour Government would follow through with prior plans t...
A 72-seat Nepali passenger aircraft crashed into a gorge while landing at a newly opened airport in the central resort town of Pokhara on Sunday, killing at least 32 people, an official said. R...
The number of cars driven in central London increased by almost 60 per cent after Sadiq Khan stopped enforcing the congestion charge at night, it can be revealed. Transport for London’s own d...
The Prince and Princess of Wales have stepped out together in public for the first time since the Duke of Sussex published his memoirs which laid bare his fraught relationship with the couple. ...
US President Joe Biden’s aides have found another batch of classified documents at a second location, according to reports in the US. The first cache of classified documents was found at the ...
Londoners were hit with fresh travel disruption on Thursday as the first strike on the Elizabeth line paralysed services. No trains are running throughout the day in the central section of the ...
London should be able to set its own immigration rules to ensure there are enough skilled workers to run essential services, according to Sadiq Khan. The mayor will use his annual set-piece spe...
A UK zoo is celebrating the birth of a critically endangered Western chimpanzee. The tiny primate has been safely delivered by new mum ZeeZee at Chester Zoo, following an eight-month pregnancy,...
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It started with the Silicon Valley set, with their Steve Job’s-inspired Mom jeans and orthopaedic-looking All Bird trainers; went up a gear as street style and its attendant low-slung waistband...
The cost of applying for a new British passport will rise next month. The Government said it will introduce new passport fees for all applications on February 2, which will affect those newly a...
A union leader has warned that the bitter strike on the railways is further away from being resolved than when it started last year. Mick Whelan, general secretary of the Aslef train drivers’...
Up to 25,000 ambulance workers across England and Wales have gone on strike in a dispute with the Government over pay. Paramedics, call handlers, drivers and technicians from the Unison and GM...
A Tory MP has lost the whip for comparing the Covid vaccination rollout to the Holocaust on Wednesday. Andrew Bridgen also appeared to falsely blame the increase in excess deaths the UK has ...
Shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth has vowed to make “better use” of existing resources as the party pledged to end repeat work capability assessments for those who are disa...
Four more luxury vehicles have been seized in the investigation into Andrew Tate, a divisive social media personality who was detained in Romania last week on charges of human trafficking and rap...
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The way we bank has significantly changed over the past few years, with more people than ever opting to bank online. This has caused a knock-on effect, with closures to major high-street banks ...
Ministers must guarantee that Channel 4 privatisation is “off the agenda for good”, Labour has said, as a senior Conservative called for an end to “picking fights”. Shadow culture secr...
Efforts to prevent strikes in Scotland’s NHS are ongoing but will be “very, very hard”, Nicola Sturgeon has said. The First Minister reiterated that there is no more money available thi...
Final preparations are being made ahead of the first rocket launch from UK soil. Several satellites are due to be blasted into space on Monday night from Cornwall Airport near Newquay. If all...
Rishi Sunak said he was “happy to talk about pay” with unions as ministers held a series of meetings aimed at ending a wave of industrial unrest in the NHS and on the rail network. The Pr...
"I can see the moment when she decided to swallow her pain and move forward towards action", Deborah Watts, cousin of Emmett Till and co-founder of his foundation, holds back tears. Till is a c...
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Targeting the 1,000 most dangerous predatory men in London to stop them committing crimes against women and children will be the “big prize” for the Met this year, Sir Mark Rowley said a...
The Government is being warned that pressure on the NHS shows little sign of relenting, as ministers come under increasing pressure to respond to the crisis. Top medics described the current si...
Pro rally driver and former Top Gear star Ken Block has died after a snowmobile accident, his team Hoonigan Racing has announced. “It’s with our deepest regrets that we can confirm that Ken...
Just half an hour into 2023, air raid sirens rang across Ukraine's capital followed by the sound of explosions. At midnight, the streets of Kyiv, were desolate as Russian attacks continued. T...
London welcomed in the New Year with a spectacular fireworks display which paid tribute to the Queen and Ukraine. Partygoers defied wet weather to welcome in 2023 after the Met Office issued y...
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Seven people have been killed in an explosion at a restaurant in western Turkey, with one official saying a gas leak may have caused the blast. The governor of Aydin province told Turkish broad...
Merseyside Police release footage of the arrest of a suspect as part of the ongoing investigation into the murder of Elle Edwards in Wallasey on Christmas Eve. A 31-year-old man has become the ...
A stunning north London townhouse is being offered as the prize in a charity house draw launched by Omaze. The British Heart Foundation has teamed up with Omaze to give one person the chance to...
Derbyshire Police have released body camera footage showing the arrest of Damien Bendall after he murdered his pregnant partner, her two children and her daughter's friend in Killmarsh, near Shef...
Gorka Marquez has slammed claims that he was a "sore loser" due to his reaction to Hamza Yassin and Jowita Przystal’s Strictly win. On Saturday’s live final, some viewers noticed that Marqu...
The Government is monitoring the Strep A medicine situation daily and has taken action to address infections, a minister said. Answering an urgent question in the House of Commons, health minis...
A pensioner has been found guilty of the vicious rape and murder of a teenager nearly 50 years ago in the oldest double jeopardy case in England and Wales. Dennis McGrory was 28 when he sexuall...
Salt Bae has attracted the ire of football fans after making his way onto the pitch appearing to pester Lionel Messi for a photo as the Argentine talisman tried to celebrate with his teammates. ...
Detectives investigating the kidnap and murder of a man in Tottenham have made a further arrest. The body of Koray Alpergin, 43, was found near Oakwood Hill Industrial Estate in Loughton before...
Rishi Sunak has touched down in the Latvian capital, where he is meeting northern European allies to discuss countering Russian aggression. The Prime Minister landed in snowy Riga, stepping out...
Warner Bros have released footage of Margot Robbie playing world-famous doll Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken Doll in the first trailer for the upcoming live-action film. The film is from Osca...
The Prime Minister has accused union boss Mick Lynch of making rail workers and border officers “foot soldiers” in his “class war”, claiming that “an increasing number of union members ...
A 19-year-old has been charged with facilitating attempted illegal entry into the United Kingdom, Kent Police have said. Ibrahima Bah, 19, of no fixed address was arrested on December 16 after ...
A water main has burst in Camden causing a residential street to be flooded with water. The London Fire Brigade was called at 2.50am on Saturday following reports of flooding on Belsize Road. ...
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A neighbour has recalled the moment he heard “a loud scream or shout” on the east London street where two boys were found dead. Emergency services were called to a property in Cornwallis R...
A water main has burst in Camden causing a residential street to be flooded with water. The London Fire Brigade was called at 2.50am on Saturday following reports of flooding on Belsize Road....
https://www.standard.co.uk/video/news/burst-watermain-floods-north-london-road-vbf8d18c9
As nurses go on strike all over the UK this strike becomes is the biggest by nurses in the history of the NHS, involving around a quarter of hospitals and community teams in England alongside all...
At least three people have died after a migrant boat capsized in the English Channel in the early hours of Wednesday. Sources confirmed 43 people were rescued, including more than 30 who were p...
Elizabeth line workers are set to strike for the first time after union members voted overwhelmingly for industrial action in a pay dispute. Members of Prospect at Rail for London Infrastructur...
The rate of inflation fell to 10.7 per cent last month raising hopes that the worst of the cost of living crisis may soon be over. The bigger than expected fall in November’s Consumer Prices...
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The King and Queen Consort met Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney as they paid a visit to the football club owned by the stars. The Royals visited Wrexham AFC, which was bought b...
Joe Lycett has addressed speculation he could be the next The Great British Bake Off host after Matt Lucas announced his departure from the beloved series earlier this week. Since Lucas’ a...
Thousands of Royal Mail workers have staged a rally to mark another strike in the increasingly bitter dispute over “unachievable” conditions they said would “destroy” the company. Membe...
Joe Lycett has revealed David Beckham ’s representatives have contacted him after he pretended to shred £10,000. Last month, the comedian issued an ultimatum to the former England captain ...
The police chief in Tampa, Florida, resigned Monday after using her position to escape a ticket during a traffic stop involving a golf cart driven by her husband. Mary O'Connor submitted her re...
The army may be used to ease the disruption caused by strikes across the public sector, Nadhim Zahawi said. Speaking on Sunday, the chairman of the Conservative Party said the Government was ...
Environmental activists were physically removed from Salt Bae's Knightsbridge steakhouse by staff after a protest at the venue. Demonstrators from Animal Rebellion, an offshoot of Extinction Re...
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in its regular update Saturday morning that over the previous 24 hours, Russian forces launched five missiles, 27 air strikes and 44 shelling...
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Average house prices in the UK slipped 1.4% in November while mortgage demand halved according to Britain’s biggest society Nationwide. While the annual rate of growth is down to 4.4%. The le...
Ian Blackford is stepping down from his role as SNP leader at Westminster, he has announced. In the run up to the next general election, that the SNP plans to run as a de facto referendum, Mr B...
Tube and bus passengers will be paying a record £6bn a year in fares to Transport for London under its new plans to break even, it can been revealed. TfL finance chiefs expect annual fares inc...
Rishi Sunak is facing questions from MPs on Wednesday on his plan to engage with unions as strike action escalates across public services inlcuding health, education and rail. On Wednesday, Roy...
Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska thanked Britain for its support in the war against Russia as she addresed MPs and Peers at Westminster on Tuesday afteroon. Ms Zelenska received a standing...
The proportion of the population of England and Wales describing themselves as Christian has fallen below a half for the first time, the Office for National Statistics said on Tuesday. Some 46....
A British drug lord is believed to be among 49 arrested as police forces in Europe united to bust a “super cartel” running a third of the continent’s cocaine trade. More than 30 tons of c...
For those on the breadline - this Christmas will be a harrowing time of rising food prices, escalating fuel costs and little thought about what’s under the tree. The Evening Standard and our ...
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In an annual festive tradition, the Prime Minister has turned on the lights of the Downing Street Christmas tree. Rishi Sunak said the Christmas story was “one of hospitality and compassion...
The women who will support the Queen Consort as she carries out her key official and state duties which have been announced by Buckingham Palace. Camilla, 75, is to have six Queen’s companion...
Police say the fatal stabbings of two 16-year-old boys just a mile apart in south-east London are linked. One boy was found with stab wounds in Titmuss Avenue, Thamesmead, and the other in Sewe...
More protests erupted across China over the weekend as citizens took the streets in a rare display of defiance over Xi Jinping’s strict Covid restrictions. Public fury forced authorities in ...
Swathes of firefighters face the sack if they are found to have bullied or been racist, misogynistic or homophobic, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) chief has said. The fire service has “dangero...
One woman has died and around 10 people were still missing on the southern Italian holiday island of Ischia after a landslide engulfed buildings during heavy rain on Saturday, a local Italian gov...
London Fire Brigade has been found “institutionally misogynist and racist” in a damning independent report. Accounts ranging from women being groped to people having their helmets filled wi...
The ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) will be expanded across all of Greater London next summer, Sadiq Khan announced on Friday. The mayor’s decision – which he described as one of the most di...
Nurses will go on strike on two days next month as part of a major escalation in a dispute over pay, the nursing union has announced. NHS nurses will walk out in dozens of trusts on December 15...
The autumn deluge has seen reservoir levels rise rapidly, according to water companies, but some parts of the UK remain under a hosepipe ban. In July and August, reservoir levels across the nor...
A Western lowland gorilla named Kiburi made his debut at ZSL London Zoo after global logistics experts DHL Express flew the 193kg silverback to London as part of an international breeding program...
London’s electric vehicle revolution was given a big boost on Thursday by plans for 100 new ultra-rapid charging points. Mayor Sadiq Khan said City Hall and Transport for London would release...
The UK’s biggest ever fraud sting has brought down a phone number spoofing site used by criminals to scam thousands of victims out of millions of pounds. Members of British law enforcement we...
The “voice of the Scottish people” will not be silenced, Nicola Sturgeon has told independence supporters after the UK’s highest court ruled Holyrood could not legislate for a referendum. ...
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II's "wonderful" relationship with Nelson Mandela in a speech at the conclusion of his state visit to the UK. Mr Ramapho...
Scotland needs the approval of Westminster to push ahead with next year’s planned second referendum on independence, top judges have ruled. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already laid out...
Thousands of drivers may have received £160 fines after visiting a drive-through McDonald’s in south London. Transport for London has revealed that almost 7,000 drivers who had failed to pay...
Soap actress Maisie Smith has said her relationship with The Wanted’s Max George makes her feel like she is “in a movie”. The celebrity couple first met when they both competed on Strictl...
The National Association of Head Teachers says more than half of schools say they’ll go into deficit this academic year and nine out of 10 schools in England are expecting to have run out of mo...