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Evening Standard
Depressed, unemployed, obese: this is the picture of a Britain that doesn't read
READING can be for solitary pleasure or it can be a quotidian task. Some people avoid books in favour of other forms of recreation; others read everywhere from bathrooms to Tube carriages. Some people love reading so much they even study English till the very end of school.
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December 11, 2023
Evening Standard
A grim antisemitism is festering in our schools
HOUNSLOW council's decision last week to cancel an educational display on Jewish life is surprising, especially as it deprives local schools of a valuable teaching resource at a critical time.
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December 11, 2023
Evening Standard
The Covid Inquiry is chocolate teapot levels of totally useless
AND so it's over nearly. For what has seemed like an eternity, beleaguered and formerly famous TV stars have been subjected to intense scrutiny and forced to perform unimaginable acts, sometimes obliged to chew a lot more than humble pie, in front of an audience which is probably left wondering what it was really all for.
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December 11, 2023
Evening Standard
Israel warning to Hamas as terror group threatens to kill hostages
HAMAS today threatened the lives of the 137 hostages still being held in Gaza as Israel's premier Benjamin Netanyahu warned the terror group that it was facing the \"beginning of the end\".
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December 11, 2023
Evening Standard
Markfield gives us strength... it's a second home
David Cohen meets parents looking after autistic children - as well as trying to balance budgets in a cost of living crisis
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December 11, 2023
Evening Standard
Tube staff praised over fire alert evacuation in 11 minutes
TUBE station staff have been praised for their quick actions after passengers began smashing windows on a packed Northern line train to escape a suspected fire during the King's Coronation bank holiday weekend.
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December 11, 2023
Evening Standard
Bus drivers could strike over delays from low-traffic zones
A GROUP of London bus drivers are considering striking after being pushed to \"breaking point\" by delays caused by low-traffic neighbourhoods and bus lanes being removed.
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December 11, 2023
Evening Standard
Crunch time for Rwanda Bill as Tory deliver their verdict Rightwingers
THE Rwanda plan will survive a key Commons vote, a senior minister predicted today as feuding Tories were urged to unite at the start of a crunch week for Rishi Sunak.
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December 11, 2023
Evening Standard
I'm sorry too, Sunak tells families of Covid victims
Days after Boris apology, PM vows to learn lessons of crisis
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December 11, 2023
Evening Standard
Criminals sentenced to tree planting
OFFENDERS are set to plant more than 4,000 trees in London this winter in a bid to help clear up the capital's air, the Ministry of Justice said today.
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December 11, 2023
Evening Standard
How Oppenheimer trumped Barbie
OPPENHEIMER was the most searched-for film on Google in the UK this year, the tech giant has revealed.
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December 11, 2023
Evening Standard
'A boy's dream come true': 7.6 million see Thompson beat Farage for jungle title
SOME 7.6 million viewers tuned in to see Sam Thompson win this year's series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! four million down on last year.
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December 11, 2023
Evening Standard
Eidevall: Hayes' exit decision won't affect the title race
ARSENAL Women boss Jonas Eidevall does not think Emma Hayes's impending departure will make Chelsea any hungrier to win the Women's Super League this season.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Blues facing a new test of mettle after northern exposure
CHELSEA have had their soft centre exposed in the north in recent weeks - and face another stern test of their mettle at Goodison Park on Sunday.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Jimenez aims to push on
RAUL JIMENEZ believes his double against Nottingham Forest will kickstart his goalscoring form for Fulham.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Mbeumo's AFCON race
BRENTFORD striker Bryan Mbeumo faces a race against time to be fit for the Africa Cup of Nations.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
JURRIEN TIMBER INTERVIEW - Injury made me feel like a baby... but now I am learning all I can
THE moment Jurrien Timber learned that he had suffered the first major injury of his career, he vowed to turn a negative into a positive.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Christie continuing upward trend with targets-man Clark
ANDY CHRISTIE has revealed the secret weapon helping Saracens stars realise their potential as former England flanker Calum Clark.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
Rahm hopes to put on his Ryder cap again despite 'risk' in joining LIV rebels
JON RAHM admitted he has \"taken a risk\" over his Ryder Cup future after agreeing a deal upwards of £450million to join LIV Golf.
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December 08, 2023
Evening Standard
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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