The London Standard - June 18, 2024

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June 18, 2024

McKellen's show must go on after fall

Sir Ian 'in good spirits' and could return to stage in matinee tomorrow

2 mins

Leaders of the pack! Comer and Stone rev up for motorbike film

JODIE COMER and Austin Butler were back in black at the premiere of The Bikeriders in Los Angeles.

1 min

Starmer won't rule out council tax increases

AS MINISTER ADMITS LABOUR COULD BE IN POWER FOR 20 YEARS

2 mins

Look who's back: Boris returns to fight the challenge from Farage

BORIS Johnson stepped up the Tories' general election battle today as they desperately attempted to stop voters deserting them for Nigel Farage's Reform.

3 mins

We help them experience growing up like any teenager

Controlling and coercive behaviour is all too common for many schoolgirls with boyfriends today. Talia Kensit tells Anna Davis how she set about tackling it

3 mins

The scandal of London's vanishing police stations

15 years ago, the capital had 156 police stations, but that has been cut sharply to just 36. A new study argues the changes have had a worrying effect on violent crime

6 mins

Putin visits Kim in Pyongyang with weapons on the agenda

VLADIMIR PUTIN was arriving in North Korea today ahead of a meeting with its leader Kim Jong-un as he seeks continued military support for his invasion of Ukraine.

2 mins

I've had enough: fine anyone with a backpack on the Tube

IF YOU wear a backpack on public transport, then I think you ought to pay a penalty.

3 mins

As a woman, I would never stand to be an MP because it's just too physically risky

LAST week I was asked why I was not standing in the general election.

3 mins

If Keir Starmer wins a historic majority, will he be able to handle the hope?

A CENTURY ago, in the general election of October 1924, Stanley Baldwin achieved a majority of 210 for the Conservatives; modestly describing the landslide as \"a magnificent opportunity for service\".

3 mins

Rained off: Weather slows supermarket sales growth

THE miserable spring and early summer weather that has wreaked havoc on the high street has even hit the supermarkets with their sales growing at their slowest rate in two years, according to new figures today.

2 mins

McMullen's warns on pub pay 'burden'

LONDON and South-East pub chain McMullen's has warned of the strain of tax and regulatory burdens facing the hospitality industry after it reported a huge surge in labour costs.

1 min

England's goal must be to use Kane's creativity as well as strike threat

\"ENGLAND need a No9. Not a nineand-a-half. Not a nine and 10 all rolled into one, but an old-fashioned No9 to prowl the penalty box and snaffle up chances, as limited as they are in international football.\"

3 mins

Ronaldo has star-studded cast to help him write a perfect end

CRISTIANO RONALDO insists Euro 2024 is \"merely a chapter\" in his glittering career.

2 mins

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