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COMMENT: The co-owner of a new 18-seater bistro in central London has issued a bold ultimatum to diners: spend big or don’t come at all. But in a world where going to restaurants should be about enjoyment, not judgement, his call to ‘justify your presence’ at the table shows why…

Exactly what you’d expect, to be honest

Dickson Achiu was hit by a car in the early hours in Edmonton

Other lives: Theatre publicist who worked on productions at the National, the Young Vic and the Donmar in the 1980s, 90s and 00s

Three decades ago, the first Eurostar train carrying paying passengers set off from London’s Waterloo station for Paris. While many of the headlines on November 14 1994 focused on the historic journey, others speculated about what the tunnel would mean for business and trade. Eurostar was “set to steal the…

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh vows to rebuild Euston mainline station ‘with public money’ and says Tube station also ‘needs work’

The Post Office revealed it is looking to offload around 115 directly-owned branches within its 11,500 network.

The actor, 32, spoke to The Standard while attending the launch gala for the 2025 Pirelli Calendar at The Natural History Museum

Sydney the worst-ranked Australian city at 150th in Auto Trader analysis, receiving a poorer score than London

Comment: F1 Live London in 2017 was a rip-roaring success - a return to the capital makes perfect sense

A well-preserved section of the 2,000-year-old road, known as Watling Street, was unearthed under Old Kent Road in Southwark