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Coats and 'Carly' dresses help Hobbs look smart as Whistles profits also rise
WOMEN'S fashion chains Hobbs and Whistles have defied high street gloom with improved sales and profit.
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September 07, 2023
Evening Standard
TOPSY OJO: France are perfect hosts but teams must not be scared by their hostile fans
STRAP yourselves in and hold on tight - this Rugby World Cup will boast seriously competitive matches that can genuinely go either way.
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September 07, 2023
Evening Standard
MIRACLE-MAN KOLISI PRIMED FOR ANOTHER AMAZING TALE
ONE day, Siya Kolisi could be South Africa's president. For the next two months, the Springbok Superman will settle for leading his nation's Rugby World Cup defence.
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September 07, 2023
Evening Standard
Bring student loans in line with the cost of living
THIS year, for the first time, two thirds of first-year students intend to find part-time jobs to augment maintenance loans that barely cover rent, let alone food or travel to campus, says Ucas. Some universities, including Anglia Ruskin's London campuses, are moving to threeday weeks to facilitate part-time work.
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September 07, 2023
Evening Standard
Scorchio! As we sizzle in the sun let's cheer this Hot Milf summer
DURING my Mykonos to London City flight this August, I gazed down at the Alps, engrossed in the thought-sequence I use to self-soothe during any turbulence in life as well as air travel.
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September 07, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 07, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 07, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 07, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 07, 2023
Evening Standard
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
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September 07, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 07, 2023
Evening Standard
'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.
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September 07, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
'WE'RE RIGHT UP THERE WITH THE VERY BEST'
ARGENTINA STAR CREEVY'S WARNING FOR ENGLAND
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
Brook has to wait in wings, but Bairstow is simply flying
England chiefs have plenty to clear up ahead of World Cup
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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\".
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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\".
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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.
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September 06, 2023
Evening Standard
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\".
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