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  • NewsEvening Standard

    London travel news LIVE: M25 crash closes anticlockwise lanes in Kent causing five-mile tailbacks

    Traffic is building on a section of the M25 in Kent after a crash forced the closure of all anticlockwise lanes. As of 10.15am, cars were not moving along the section from J6 A22 (Godstone) to Clacket Lane Services in Kent. Several Tube lines also have delays on Friday morning while traffic is now moving again on the M25 after the QEII Bridge at the Dartford Crossing was closed.

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  • NewsEvening Standard

    Protected Soho Tesco to be replaced with new office block and supermarket half the size

    A beloved Tesco’s in central London will be demolished and replaced with an office block and supermarket almost half the size under plans approved by Westminster City Council. Councillors said developers HECF Soho Limited had made “dramatic improvements” to the Dean Street and Soho Square scheme after refusing a similar design last year and voted unanimously to approve it during a planning meeting on Tuesday evening. Changes include carving out dedicated space for a supermarket to operate on g

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Children who spend a lot of time on social media ‘more likely to vape’

    Researchers say social media companies have ‘substantial power’ to reduce young people’s exposure to smoking and vaping

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  • NewsKameraOne

    New York woman arrested for keeping child in homemade cage

    A woman from Buffalo, New York, is facing a child endangerment charge after state troopers discovered her 2-year-old son trapped inside a homemade cage. 24-year-old Naesha Lumpkin was arrested on February 8 when troopers discovered the cage and the horrifying conditions in which she was keeping the child.

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Theresa May doesn’t want Trump hand-holding and Brexit failure to be her legacy as she mocks Truss and Johnson

    Theresa May joked that Boris Johnson’s memoirs would be about ‘current affairs’ and said Liz Truss’s new book should be labelled ‘sci-fi or fantasy’

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  • NewsThe Independent

    France police shoot dead armed man who set fire to Rouen synagogue

    Jewish worshippers’ body says police have ‘avoided another antisemitic tragedy’

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Starmer is just ‘Blair without the flair’, says Farage

    Sir Keir Starmer is “Blair without the flair”, Nigel Farage has said as he accused the Labour leader of “aping” the former prime minister “in absolutely every way”.

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