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London Tunnels set to surface on stock market
THE business planning to turn a secret network of Second World War tunnels under Holborn into a major new visitor attraction has made the first preparations for a London stock market listing, the Standard has learned.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Perrins shows why business must find its voice
TODAY Rob Perrins, the boss of Berkeley, tells it as he sees it.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
MARKET ROUND-UP: Festive 'buy' sends Sainsbury's soaring
ADVICE to stock up on Sainsbury's shares in the run-up to Christmas today helped the supermarket giant soar to a near two-year high in the FTSE 100 index.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Berkeley boss slams new home planning obstacles
THE boss of London's biggest housebuilder today hit out at the planning and regulatory obstacles in the way of construction and called for a \"brownfield first\" approach to slash the time taken to approve urban redevelopment.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
The queen of rap shows why she still holds on to the throne
TODAY is Nicki Minaj's 41st birthday, and one of many surprises on her fifth album is the arrival of Billie Eilish's haunting voice as the first sound, on a song that sees the usually imperious Trinidadian rapper expressing vulnerability as a mother and wife.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Your cultural Christmas unwrapped
GOING OUT: It's the most wonderful time of the year in London - let our Culture Editors guide you on the best of what the capital has to offer this festive season
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
If you broadcast noise on the Tube, you are an aural barbarian
NEVER in my wildest, worst dreams did I ever believe a man eating an entire tub of roasted garlic hummus with a baguette could be trumped as the nadir of my experiences on public transport. That man, unafraid to unleash his chickpea Chernobyl on a packed rush-hour Victoria line carriage, at least had the benefit of being a rogue agent. It's true other thoughtless travelling souls with peppery pasties and booze-induced Big Macs are common and quite annoying, but 2023 has been the year of something much worse on London's transport network: the public phone broadcast.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
The word of the year is all about cheerful carnal appeal- you can't buy that
THE most charismatic man I ever met was the LA rapper, musician, designer and generational hero, Tyler the Creator. I was shadowing him during a spring jaunt in Paris for the gentlemanly fashion magazine, Fantastic Man. He'd just won his first Grammy.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Teenagers' vapes are a scented menace: ban them
HOW on earth did vaping become the hottest new accessory for Gen Z? They're quite literally everywhere.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Don't bank on a May poll but Rishi might see it as a safer bet
MIGHT Rishi Sunak's ongoing political Golgotha swing the likelihood of an early election? Two answers suggest themselves in the wake of the \"Jenrick moment\" - the abrupt resignation of Sunak's immigration minister over the delivery (or not) of the \"Rwanda plan\" and a press conference at which a plainly furious PM pointed out to his party's Right wing that the only way to keep the deal intact was to deliver it without threatening to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Green shoots at last in new bid to make Crystal shine again
THE site of the athletics track at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre was home to the FA Cup final from 1895 to 1914. For its penultimate edition as host, more than 120,000 people flocked there to watch Aston Villa beat Sunderland.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
For many disabled people, help from Merton Centre has been pivotal
With no end in sight to cost-of-living crisis, Anna Davis talks to those benefiting from key financial advice
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Solo star Sofia aims at No 1 slot for Ukraine
A UKRAINIAN girl living in London who cannot return home because of the war stars in a new Christmas single released to raise money for War Child.
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December 08, 2023
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Minister: TV licence fee court cases are morally indefensible
PROSECUTING people for failing to pay their television licence is \"morally indefensible\" and will be looked at in a review, the Culture Secretary has said.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Boy, 16, held over murder of mother in Hackney shooting
A 16-YEAR-OLD boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a mother in a triple shooting in east London.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
"To stop a writer's freedom is outrageous'
Sir Tom Stoppard is fighting for freedom of expression more than ever, says Robbie Griffiths
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
US tells Israel it must do more to shield civilians trapped in Gaza
THE US today urged Israel to do more to protect civilians in Gaza as United Nations officials said there was no safe place left for aid agencies in the south of the besieged strip.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Crying babies, helpless staff. We felt abandoned
ALL of us had somewhere we were meant to be. I was taking my five-year-old daughter to The Nutcracker, others had just landed from Heathrow.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Nightmare before Christmas as trains trapped for hours
Fury at rail bosses as passengers led down tracks after power wire damage
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Mad for it! Chanel goes full-on Manc
THERE was no Gail Platt, but last night Chanel brought Manchester's Northern Quarter to a glamorous standstill - in spite of the incessant rain - as it presented its Métier d'Arts collection in the city. It was a feat of levelling up that the Government can but dream of.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
SPURS REJECT BID FOR DAVIES
SWANSEA EYE No2 AS POSTECOGLOU SAYS SIDE IS AT INFANCY’ OF POTENTIAL
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December 07, 2023
Evening Standard
Moyes needs Ange touch as launchpad for Hammers
West Ham boss praises rival’s impact but is unlikely to stray from conservative approach
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December 07, 2023
Evening Standard
Hodgson takes swipe at 'spoilt' Palace fans
Boss hits out after loss leads to boos and an object being thrown at him
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December 07, 2023
Evening Standard
KKR in £1.3bn swoop for Smart Metering Systems
THE private equity buying spree on London’s stock market gathered pace today with a £1.3 billion deal in which one of the UK’s biggest green energy firms will leave its public listing behind.
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December 07, 2023
Evening Standard
Like a rat leaving a sinking ship, Jenrick quitting is bad news for Rishi
THE well-known tendency of rats to vacate sinking ships is what comes to mind as we consider the departure from government of that sleek, well-fed rodent, Robert Jenrick.
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December 07, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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December 07, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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December 07, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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December 07, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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December 07, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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