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A soulful serenade for the famous faces at our festive columnists' lunch

THE Evening Standard rang in the festive season yesterday with a columnists' Christmas lunch at LPM in Mayfair.

Young Tube passengers targeted for AirPods and £1,500 winter coats

YOUNG Londoners are being robbed of expensive winter coats and AirPods earphones in a “really concerning” increase in crime on the Tube.

100 firefighters to get payouts for trauma of tackling Grenfell blaze

MORE than 100 firefighters who fought the Grenfell Tower fire are to receive compensation from Kensington and Chelsea council.

Professor turned down for job at Vegas university shoots three dead

STUDENTS and professors cowered in classrooms as a gunman roamed the main campus of University of Nevada in Las Vegas, killing three people and injuring a fourth before he was shot dead by police.

None of your business! Robinson's new man: the Queen's ex

FORMER Weakest Link presenter Anne Robinson snapped \"it's none of your business\" after it was reported that she is in a relationship with the Queen's ex-husband, Andrew Parker Bowles.

Festive shopping's strong start as Black Friday figures beat 2019

THE West End Christmas shopping season has got off to its strongest start since before the pandemic with the number of shoppers on Black Friday weekend exceeding 2019 levels, new figures show today.

Any tougher and Rwanda deal will collapse, says Rishi

PM says bar has been set so high that challenges by migrants in court won’t work

Taylor Swift: Feud with Kim and Kanye took my career from me

TAYLOR SWIFT enjoyed a night out at the New York premiere of Emma Stone’s latest film after lifting the lid on her feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.

Wiegman lost for words as late blow ends Olympic bid on night of drama

AS THE Lionesses huddled for a teamtalk on the pitch after the final whistle here at Hampden Park, they thought they had defied the odds by qualifying for the Nations League Finals.

Blues appear more united, but Pochettino fears backlash

CHELSEA'S trip to Manchester United would have had top billing as a Premier League title clash in years gone by, but these two giants of English football have fallen.

Stagecoach facing 'challenges' in capital as profits hit £47m

BRITAIN'S biggest bus and coach operator today cheered first-half sales and profit growth, but revealed that trading in London has been \"challenging\".

BAT in £25bn write-down over shift to vaping

BRITISH American Tobacco will write down the value of its US brands by a massive £25 billion as it said the transition to vapes and the macroeconomic environment in its top market both hit cigarette sales.

Summit Sunak is more welcoming over migration

THERE seem to be two Rishi Sunaks around at present.  One of them appeared last week, at the Government's Global Investment Summit at Hampton Court Palace.

... but global survey confirms the capital as top spot for tech unicorns in Europe

LONDON has cemented its position as a global tech hub with more unicorns than any other city in Europe, a report has found, with signs many more innovative businesses are on the way.

Tui could drop London listing in new blow to City

HOLIDAYS giant Tui could be the latest firm to pack up and leave the City, revealing today that it's considering delisting from the London Stock Exchange.

Suella glowers as our cartoonist wins top prize

SUELLA BRAVERMAN was guest of honour at the Ellwood Atfield Political Cartoon of the Year Awards last night, but the assembled scribblers were not in the honouring mood. She took the stage to panto boos and said \"the heckling has started already\".

As Spurs and West Ham go head to head, losing their stars looks a blessing in disguise

TOTTENHAM'S puritanical Ange Postecoglou and West Ham's pragmatic David Moyes, who lock horns in north London tomorrow night, could scarcely have more contrasting philosophies on the game, but they faced the same conundrum going into this season: how to recover from the loss of your club's best player? Spurs reluctantly allowed all-time leading scorer Harry Kane to join Bayern Munich in the summer, while West Ham sold captain Declan Rice to rivals Arsenal.

If Nikki Haley is the new hope for sane Republicans, poor her

NIKKI HALEY scored two big-money prestige endorsements last week that strikingly boost her standing in the Republican primaries. The Koch brothers' conservative money machine, Americans for Prosperity Action, lined up behind the former South Carolina governor, a move that could provide her with maximum financial support, especially if she overtakes, as she seems poised to do, Ron DeSantis as the designated Trump alternative. And then she captured the public favour of Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, a mega donor and major business voice.

Pinter's play is deeply unpleasant -but this revival is terrific

THIS is an impeccable production of an important, deeply unpleasant play.

You'll never drive alone: Michael Ball's six-month speed ban

WEST END star Michael Ball has been banned from driving for six months after being caught speeding in his Porsche twice in the space of five months.

Ex says Marvel star is manipulative and violent

THE former girlfriend of Marvel star Jonathan Majors broke down in tears in court as she claimed he was a controlling, manipulative partner.

On your bikes! Cycle journeys rise by a fifth since pandemic

CYCLING journeys in London have increased by 20 per cent since before the pandemic while hybrid working continues to limit demand for public transport, it was revealed today.

'Mother killed in triple shooting on her doorstep was not the intended target'

A MANHUNT was under way today after a mother was killed in a triple shooting on her doorstep in an apparent case of mistaken identity.

Without AFRIL'S help, I'd be on the streets begging

WHEN Ismail heard his baby cry in the night, he despaired. He knew there was no milk in the house, and that his one-year-old son would be given water in his bottle - yet again.

GET BEHIND CAMPAIGN, SAYS TED LASSO STAR HANNAH AS TOTAL HITS £1.5M

OUR Christmas drive was boosted today with a £250,000 donation from the Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund, taking the total raised by our Winter Survival Appeal to £1.5 million.

'We'll do whatever is necessary to safeguard Rwanda plan'

\"WHATEVER is necessary\" will be done to ensure the Government's Rwanda deportation plan is made safe from legal challenge under new emergency legislation, a minister said today.

Boris and mystery of 5,000 lost WhatsApps

Former PM apologises over Covid deaths and admits we may have made mistakes’

Ted Lasso effect lifts mood in Richmond

It’s named Britain’s happiest place to live fuelled by success of sitcom

I've had job offers and am very ambitious but doubt I'll find a club that does everything better than Brentford

THOMAS FRANK is reluctant to accept he is one of Brentford's most prized assets, but his record speaks for itself.

Six appeal can give Arteta forward thrust he needs to mount a serious challenge

AFTER dismantling Lens in the Champions League on Wednesday night, the challenge for Arsenal is to bring their attacking flair to the home front.