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£15m to help end food waste in Standard victory

THE Evening Standard today welcomed Rishi Sunak’s announcement that the Government is allocating £15 million to redirect farm surplus food to people suffering food insecurity.

Fine details will make you a brunch believer

I HAVE always been at precisely the wrong life stage to truly understand brunch. Around about the time that early-2010s restaurateurs were turning smashed avocado, sharing pans of shakshuka and “bottomless” day drinking into an unstoppable formula, I was a 29-year-old newish dad, slowly awakening to the fact that early parenthood wasn’t compatible with languorous mid-afternoon meals or the speed-necking of seven mimosas within a rigorously observed 90-minute window.

Matt Smith to the rescue ina watery tale where subtlety quickly drains away

KUDOS to Matt Smith: it’s bold of him to choose this unstarry, uneven production of Ibsen’s social critique for his latest return stage.

I'll boost crime fight by cutting Khan's mayoral staff, vows Hall

TORY mayoral candidate Susan Hall today called for the reinstatement of borough police commanders as she pledged to make London’s streets safer.

Fired Post Office chief hits back at Kemi with memo’

BUSINESS Secretary Kemi Badenoch faced a growing row today with the former Post Office chairman over a disputed request to delay compensation for sub-postmaster victims of the Horizon IT scandal.

London Labour MPs set to defy Starmer and push for Gaza ceasefire in vote

SEVERAL London Labour MPs vowed to back a Commons call for a Gaza ceasefire today as Sir Keir Starmer was locked in a tussle over parliamentary procedure in a bid to quell a revolt.

Tea and fizz with the style set at Downing Street fashion parade

WELCOME to Downing street to celebrate London Fashion Week’s finale and 40th anniversary tea — and champagne, obviously, this is fashion after all. The style set nibbled on miniature pastel de nata and smoked salmon sarnies.

BT sells off landmark tower in £275m deal for new London mega hotel

THE BT Tower, one of London’s most instantly recognisable landmarks, is to be converted into a luxury hotel after being sold for £275 million.

RFU FORCED TO ROW BACK ON TWICKENHAM REVAMP

£663m RENOVATION OR WEMBLEY GROUNDSHARE 'NOT FEASIBLE', SO IMPROVEMENTS ARE WAY FORWARD

Glasner era starts well as Palace show they are up for the fight

New boss watches on as his side battles for well-earned point at fellow strugglers

Building work starts on new 50-storey tower at Bankside

CONSTRUCTION has started on what will be the tallest new residential skyscraper under development in prime central London, in a big vote of confidence in the capital’s luxury homes market.

Britain needs more high-growth hero firms’

THE UK is failing to generate the fast growth small businesses that could turbocharge the economy’s lacklustre level of productivity, a major new report claims today.

Barclays surges as City welcomes shake-up plans

BARCLAYS shares surged today as Britain’s second biggest bank unveiled an ambitious shake-up including plans to return £10 billion to shareholders in the next three years.

It changed everyone who saw it so I'm delighted Live Aid is reborn on stage

LIVE AID, the music event that brought the word together 39 years ago, was surely the greatest demonstration of the power music can have over hearts and minds. Live Aid was not just a concert, it was a movement that spawned a mood of global communality and left an indelible mark on millions of lives, including my own.

The Fourth Plinth is what public art should be

WELL, you can have a sweet potato, an ice cream van, an equestrian figure draped in green slime or a black cat.

Twice the fun for movie nerds but it won't bother the box office

JOHN LOGAN'S frustrating new play is a pub quiz film round mounted on stage. It awkwardly splices together Alfred Hitchcock's attempt to control and conquer Tippi Hedren during Marnie (1964) and Vincent Price's fraught relationship with the young, doomed director Michael Reeves on Witchfinder General (1968).

We need truth, says Assange's wife at start of his final court fight

JULIAN ASSANGE was today mounting his final court battle to avoid extradition to the United States on espionage charges.

Shock as Strictly's partner to the stars Robin Windsor dies aged 44

STRICTLY Come Dancing star Robin Windsor has died “tragically” at the age of 44.

Israel scribbled out on certificate

JEWISH FATHER’S ANGER AFTER BABY’S DOCUMENT RETURNED FROM HOME OFFICE TORN AND DEFACED

Gosling nearly put me off my acceptance speech, says rising star

ACTRESS Mia McKenna-Bruce says Ryan Gosling almost derailed her acceptance speech when she scooped the rising star award at the Baftas, McKenna-Bruce, 26, was named EE Bafta rising star at Sunday's ceremony, ahead of fellow nominees Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor, The Bear's Ayo Edebiri, Talk To Me actress Sophie Wilde and Saltburn actor Jacob Elordi.

Burberry (and friends) give a masterclass in British swagger

AS A demonstration of imperial might, Burberry's show which closed London Fashion Week last night - was a masterclass.

London risks dying from its roots as families leave and schools close, experts warn

SCHOOL closures are creating “ghost areas” across London and destroying communities as so many children are leaving the capital, a headteacher warned today.

ROY'S DEPUTIES BOSS TONIGHT BEFORE SWITCH TO GLASNER

PADDY McCARTHY and Ray Lewington will take charge of Crystal Palace at Everton tonight, as the club waits to confirm the appointment of Oliver Glasner to replace Roy Hodgson.

STOKES IN LINE FOR BOWLING RETURN

SKIPPER COULD DEFY MEDICS BY RESUMING ALL-ROUNDER ROLE EARLY

Misfiring engine room must spark into life if England are to recover

THE gambling man's banker of the day sailed in not when Mark Wood's dismissal confirmed England's 434-run mauling in Rajkot yesterday, but when Ben Stokes spoke soon afterwards.

Chinese giant weighs up bid for Currys

A BID battle for Currys loomed today after China's largest online retailer said it is mulling a potential offer for the electricals chain.

The Arts Council England is wrong to think you can take the politics out of art

EARLIER this month, during the climax of Chicago rapper Noname's headline gig in London, she paused, cut the accompaniment, and addressed her sold-out audience. \"Can I hear you say free Palestine?\"

This awful rise in antisemitism has changed how I see London

IT’S only in the past few months that I’ve realised just how many Jewish friends I have. Of course, while I obviously know which of them are more fervent than others (the ones who openly discuss the Jewish experience), it’s only since the barbarity of October 7 that I’ve come to realise there are far more of them than I thought.

Have we fallen out of love with booze culture?

After a record dry January and the closure of yet more bars and clubs, Robbie Griffiths on why London is going sober

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