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19,401 minutes on the phone help student land Standard art prize

THE winner of this year's Evening Standard Art Prize said it was an \"amazing opportunity\" to launch her career.

US to send depleted uranium anti-tank shells in $175m aid package for Ukraine

AMERICA has announced that it will send controversial depleted uranium anti-tank shells to Ukraine to help its forces push through Russian lines in its grinding counter-offensive.

Feral four fire up the death of civility

WE NEVER have to wait long for a new revival of Yasmina Reza's play which, like her other great success Art, every few years attracts starry casts to take on the particular rhythms of her savage takedown of middle-class civility. This time it's the turn of Freema Agyeman, familiar as Doctor Who companion Martha Jones, in a production directed by Nicholai La Barrie which looks stylish but only comes alive in its final moments.

Two problems tackled in one move: now let's do it

CLOSE to 14 million people experience food insecurity in Britain every day. Four million are just children. At the same time, we waste more than three million tons of food every year: that's an area nearly half the size of Wales, producing healthy crops that never get eaten.

Dumped in landfill or burnt: enough good food for 7 bn meals

Just a tiny percentage of the £750m subsidy for waste plants would help alleviate the daily battle for millions of struggling families, reports David Cohen

Welcome back, you diamond geezers. We're lucky to have you

ONE has to be careful when tossing around phrases like \"This may be the last time\" in the context of Rolling Stones happenings. They have, for about 642 decades now, been making a mockery of such pronouncements.

'Big questions to answer' over terror suspect's prison escape

A POLICE manhunt for a former soldier accused of terrorism entered a second day as a Cabinet minister admitted there were \"big questions to answer\" about his prison escape.

Colwill: I'll keep pushing myself to make sure I'm at the Euros

CHELSEA defender Levi Colwill says he is aiming to continue his rapid rise by cementing a place in the England team by next summer's Euros.

Cole's debt of thanks to Borthwick as he admits: I thought my Test days were done

DAN COLE spent three of the last four years thinking his international career was over.

'WE'RE RIGHT UP THERE WITH THE VERY BEST'

ARGENTINA STAR CREEVY'S WARNING FOR ENGLAND

No1 Alcaraz in Djokovic's sights again

THE newest rivalry in tennis edges ever closer to its latest denouement, after Novak Djokovic booked his place in a 47th Grand Slam semi-final with relative ease in New York last night.

Brook has to wait in wings, but Bairstow is simply flying

England chiefs have plenty to clear up ahead of World Cup

Shops and clinics boost Howard de Walden Estates

THE aristocratic owners of one of central London's great property estates today revealed higher revenues and profits amid strong demand for shops in Marylebone and Harley Street clinics.

Darktrace rushes to calm jitters as it adds to M&A war chest

DARKTRACE today sought to calm investor nerves over a cut in earnings forecasts as the cybersecurity firm boosted its readiness for acquisitions.

Halfords bike sales fall with spending shift to car repairs

HALFORDS today said spending on cycling has fallen as customers focus budgets on keeping their cars on the road.

Our superheated Tube would not be fit for a fish

TWO days ago I was awoken from my Covid sick bed by my son screaming.

There's lurking a deep-rooted problem in the NHS...groupthink

LISTEN to the patient, [they are] telling you the diagnosis\". So said William Osler, the \"father of modern medicine\". It is a rule that is not always followed.

Water chiefs condemned over 'scandal' of sewage in Thames

THAMES Water was today condemned by London MPs as the Commons debated plans by the embattled utility giant to discharge millions of litres of treated sewage.

I'm an idiot: Loose Women star fined over insurance

LOOSE Women star Linda Robson confessed \"I'm an idiot\" and posed for a photograph with a police officer after being caught out over a car insurance blunder.

Matthew Freud's country escape

When is a hotel not a hotel? When it's a mind-expanding super-chic retreat where activities like perfumery and Padel are included and meals are eaten communally, says Harriet Quick

No more daring stunt scenes for me, vows Theron

CHARLIZE THERON has revealed she won't do any more big stunt scenes ahead of the release of her latest action movie, insisting she is \"no Tom Cruise\".

Number of young London smokers halves as more vape

THE proportion of young people in London who smoke has halved in over a decade, figures have revealed, amid a sharp rise in vaping.

Wainwright delivers the goodies as orchestra sets volume to 11

BACK in the 1970s, when Oldies but Goodies concerts were the rage in the US, singer Rick Nelson poured scorn on the concept in his song Garden Party: \"If memories were all I sang, I'd rather drive a truck\".

Fake assassin comedy hits the target by gunning for old-school laughs

THE Venice Film Festival is churning out assassins at a rate that would put Henry Ford to shame. But if you think you're going to be watching a movie about a lone killer for hire, then you will be disappointed. Or you would be, if Richard Linklater's Hit Man (screening here out of competition) wasn't such a hugely entertaining film.

Sara Sharif's stepmother says family is willing to co-operate

THE stepmother of Sara Sharif, the 10-year-old girl found dead at her home in Woking, today spoke for the first time, insisting the family is willing to co-operate with the authorities and \"fight our case in court\".

Campbell's in the fast fashion lane

NAOMI CAMPBELL showed off her catwalk skills in New York as she debuted her collection with ultra fast fashion brand Pretty Little Thing.

Get off our backsides? We sent back our safety surveys weeks ago, say schools

THE row over crumbling concrete grew today as schools claimed they filled in safety surveys \"months ago\", after the Education Secretary told headteachers to \"get off their backsides\" and send back the forms.

'Separate lives': singer Jonas files for divorce from Thrones actress Turner after four years

SINGER Joe Jonas filed for divorce from his Game of Thrones actress wife Sophie Turner after the couple \"lived separate lives for months,\" it was claimed today.

It's hats off to Piper and Pugh, brimful of style at Elle awards

FLORENCE PUGH and Billie Piper strike a pose together at the Elle Style Awards.

As London basks in sun, there's no end to the party...

LONDON is basking in an unexpected burst of sunshine - so I've had my feet in a paddling pool and my mind on the best late summer jaunts in the city this year.