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Strike? What strike? Top Tories go to the ball for Abba tribute night before walkout

CONSERVATIVE ministers were today criticised for attending a summer ball the night before Britain was hit by the rail strikes.

Rayner backs strikes and Labour MPs join picket line despite appeal from Starmer

LABOUR'S deputy leader Angela Rayner today risked a split with Sir Keir Starmer over the rail strikes after she signalled her support for workers taking industrial action.

£120m and counting: what strikes will cost London

Fury of restaurant and bar owners trying to get back on feet after Covid

LOCKDOWN LONDON 2.0

STATIONS DESERTED AS COMMUTERS WORK FROM HOME ON DAY ONE OF RAIL STRIKES. BORIS BRACES BRITAIN FOR MONTHS OF MISERY AS RMT PLEDGES MORE ACTION

Copper price crash hurts heavyweight miners

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Roy backing 'incredible' Morgan to rediscover touch after second duck

JASON ROY believes a score is just round the corner for England skipper Eoin Morgan, who recorded his second duck in a row against the Netherlands.

Swimming's new transgender rules

Ban: Lia Thomas will not be able to race women

Rail strikes threaten 'fatal blow' to London recovery

Struggling to get in: the leisure and hospitality industries alone are set to lose £1 billion as the capital grinds to a halt this week

'Shortcomings of Russia's air force leave its ground troops exhausted'

RUSSIA'S air force has underperformed during the Ukraine war leaving its ground troops "exhausted," British defence chiefs said today.

Father in tears as he tells how stabbed son, 17, died on doorstep

A FATHER wept today as he revealed how his teenage son was knifed to death on the family's doorstep in the shadow of Tottenham's stadium.

Millie is no stranger to love as Harry wows Wembley

MILLIE Bobby Brown looked the part at Harry Styles's Wembley gig last night as she was handed a feather boa from a fan.

'I want George, Charlotte and Louis to join my homeless fight'

PRINCE William has revealed how his late mother Princess Diana inspired him to take to the streets of London to sell The Big Issue - and said he wants to set the same example for his children.

Macron's ministers sound warning note over his failure to win majority

Emmanuel Macron's own ministers today described his failure to win a parliamentary majority as "a democratic shock" that could "block our capacity to protect the French".

BORIS TO UNIONS: PLEASE DON'T DERAIL LONDON

WALKOUTS AN ACT OF SELF-HARM, SAYS PM

Family troubles as Roy is bowled by cousin Snater

JASON ROY was dismissed by his cousin in the second over of world champions England's First ODI against the Netherlands in Amsterdam today.

'NEW' VIEIRA TO JOIN GUNNERS IN £34m DEAL

ARTETA SWOOPS FOR PORTO MIDFIELDER, 22, WHILE TALKS CONTINUE OVER MAN CITY FORWARD JESUS

M&C Saatchi shares dive as it rejects $381m takeover bid

He added: "We do not believe that the recent market volatility undermines the fundamental proposition of this transaction."

This house just doesn't home in

NOT even a commanding central performance from Noma Dumezweni can lift this smug riff on Ibsen's radical 19th-century classic.

I didn't believe ice-cold Heard or her crocodile tears, says juror in Depp libel trial

A JUROR in Amber Heard and Johnny Depp's libel battle has revealed they did not side with the actress as her testimony "didn't come across as believable".

Family's plea as £20,000 is offered to catch killer

David Adegbite, 18, was ambushed and shot dead in a Barking car park in March 2017 while visiting friends, in what police believe was a case of mistaken identity.

Trump 'blasted Pence a wimp before mob stormed Capitol'

DONALD TRUMP called then-vice president Mike Pence a "wimp" in a heated phone call just hours before a mob stormed the Capitol, his daughter Ivanka and White House aides said.

Assange extradition signed off

THE Home Secretary has signed an order to extradite WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange to the United States.

Met chief 'must commit to change'

SADIQ KHAN today demanded that the new Metropolitan police chief be a "reforming commissioner" committed to a root-and-branch transformation of the force's culture.

BOILING POINT

Rail strike dispute deepens as London hits 30C

Google launches fund to invest in black tech start-up founders

GOOGLE for Startups, the search giant's accelerator initiative for new businesses, has launched a $4 million (£3 million) fund to invest solely in black tech company founders in Europe - many in London - to tackle "racial inequality in venture capital funding" for entrepreneurs.

Rising star Draper hopes the 'Murray effect' will keep having benefits

TRYING to measure the exact impact of Andy Murray on British tennis is not an easy task - but Jack Draper would not be where he is today without the 'Murray effect'.

Shares tumble on worries over consumer confidence

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Shaftesbury and Capco merge into property giant

THE biggest shake-up of the property landscape of the West End for a generation was under way today when two of its biggest players, Capital & Counties and Shaftesbury, agreed a £5 billion merger.

Leaders of Germany, France and Italy pledge Kyiv 'unity'

FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian prime minister Mario Draghi arrived in Kyiv today to send a "message of unity" to Ukraine as it struggles to withstand a Russian onslaught in the east of the country.

'Finding Dom puts end to anguish'

DOM PHILLIPS' wife has said "now we can bring them home and say goodbye with love" after the bodies of the British journalist and Bruno Pereira, an indigenous expert, were found in the Amazon rainforest.