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Demand Concerns Undercut Cocoa Prices

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN25 ) today is down -156 (-1.76%), and May ICE London cocoa #7 (CAK25 ) is down -98 (-1.52%). Cocoa prices today are trading sharply lower but remained above Wednesday's 1-week lows. Demand concerns are weighing on cocoa prices after chocolate maker Hershey Co. reported today...

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A Different Man’s Adam Pearson to star in new film of The Elephant Man

Pearson, who will be the first disabled actor to play the role in a film, said: ‘I can think of no greater honour than to tell the true story of Joseph Carey Merrick’

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‘She changed the face of London’: statue to be unveiled of suffragist gardener

Fanny Wilkinson designed 75 parks in the capital, the first UK female landscape gardener to be paid for her work

The Guardian - UK

London Eye breaks down leaving customers stranded on hottest day of the year

It occurred as temperatures hit 28C in the capital

The Independent UK

Ikea’s new central London store has learned from ‘a lot of mistakes’ over 7 years

“We have [made] a lot of mistakes when designing city location stores,” Ikea’s Tolga Öncü told Fortune.

Fortune

EuroLeague CEO on NBA Europe: 'The only way forward is together'

While speaking at the SportsPro Conference in London this week, Motiejunas showed his disposition to explore collaborations into the future.

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IKEA Opens New London City Centre Store

Swedish furniture giant IKEA on Thursday opened a new store in the heart of London's shopping district, with a flurry of balloons, flags -- and giant meatballs.

International Business Times

Lime e-bike rider miraculously avoids serious injury after clipping bus and 'face planting' road

Video of horror crash in Shoreditch viewed hundreds of thousands of times

Evening Standard

Jury shown video of ‘frenzied stabbing’ in suitcase murder trial

Yostin Andres Mosquera is accused of killing Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth in London.

Evening Standard

Russell Brand appears in court accused of rape at Labour Party conference and sexual assaults in toilets

Brand granted bail as he appears at court to face claims he raped two women and tried to drag another into a male toilet

Evening Standard

Why do people continue to support politicians who attack their democracies? Expert Q&A

Ahead of a public event in London on May 8 on what the latest research can tell us about the state of democracy, The Conversation asked Scott Williamson, Associate Professor in Comparative Political Economy at the University of Oxford, to help us understand why people don’t always immediately push back…

The Conversation

Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson to make injury return at London Diamond League this summer

Hodgkinson set an 800m British record during her last London Diamond League appearance before she winning gold at Paris 2024

The Independent UK

British men urged to join ‘Dad strike’ calling for more paternity leave

Exclusive: Fathers planning protest with babies in London on 11 June to highlight UK’s ‘rubbish’ statutory leave, least generous in Europe

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IKEA's Oxford Street store is kick-starting a huge change for the Swedish brand in the UK

Is this the return of the high street?

Evening Standard

Ikea superfan travels 194 miles to be one of first customers of new Oxford Circus store

Vicky Dawson travelled from her home in Wrexham to join crowds queuing to visit the new store which opened at 10am today

Evening Standard

OPINION - A London school has just accidentally proved my point: giving phones to children is tantamount to abuse

Quelle surprise! A London sixth form college has seen its A-level results jump by an entire grade overall after it banned mobile phones entirely in the school.

Evening Standard

Bob Geldof says another Live Aid event is ‘unlikely’ because of social media

The singer was speaking at a launch event at Wembley Stadium for Just For One Day, a musical about the charity event.

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Evening Standard

London Marathon 2026 date announced: What you need to know

Getting a place is the hardest part of the marathon process

Evening Standard

Does the huge NIC rise in the capital smash the business case for a London postcode?

Since the start of the tax year the average NIC bill per employee has jumped to £6,375.00, an extra £1,075.80

Evening Standard

What to do in London in May: the best interiors events, collabs and design launches this month

May is the month of the fair. And the bank holiday.

Evening Standard

Labour accused of 'shipping' London councillor 650 miles to fight Highlands seat at Scottish elections

Eva Kestner has been chosen by Anas Sarwar’s party to contest the Holyrood constituency in 2026, despite living in London

Evening Standard

Maya Jama and Ruben Dias 'confirm' romance with PDA after months of speculation

The pair were spotted at KSI’s Baller League event in London

Evening Standard

Suspect, 24, charged with stabbing ‘loving, peaceful’ man to death in south London street

Kemuel Gambicky-Forbes due before Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday accused murdering Leon Anderson

Evening Standard

Lego moves 1500 staff to new London HQ on the South Bank

Around 1,500 UK staff will occupy 192,000 sq ft over three and half floors of the brutalist London Hub

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