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UK's sexiest accent revealed – and a London twang doesn't even make the top 10

Scouse, Geordie and Brummmie accents are all in the top 10 – but which accent has taken the number one spot?

Evening Standard

Network Rail tight-lipped on redevelopment plans for London Victoria Station

London Victoria Station dates back to the Victorian era and is a key link for those heading out to Gatwick Airport

Evening Standard

Investor urges Rio Tinto to drop London primary listing

It came as the boss of the mining giant said at an investment day in London that the company has a ‘clear plan for a decade of profitable growth’.

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British indie band Sports Team robbed at gunpoint while on tour in US

The London-based band had pulled into a petrol station to get breakfast when masked robbers armed with a gun ‘ransacked’ their van and made off with valuable belongings

Evening Standard

Three key London commuter rail companies to be renationalised next year

South Western Railways, C2C and Greater Anglia will be the first to be transferred into public ownership - with Avanti West Coast to follow

Evening Standard

‘Type Archived’: a must-have manual for hot metal enthusiasts and linotype lovers

A new book provides a stunning visual tour of traditional typefounding and offers a definitive account of London's legendary Type Archive

Wallpaper

"They all lived on half a pigeon’s egg each in the morning": The extraordinary life of Bill Wyman: WW2 evacuee, RAF airman, hit solo artist, bandleader, author, restaurateur, archaeologist, cricketer and Rolling Stone

Bill Wyman's time in The Greatest Rock’N’Roll Band In The World was storied, but there’s been much, much more to his life than that

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Mapped: Britain’s twenty happiest places to live

There’s a new number one spot

The Independent UK

Move over Richmond! London borough is no longer 'Britain's happiest place to live'

A historical market town in Suffolk has supplanted Richmond as the happiest place to live in Great Britain

Evening Standard

Britain’s ‘happiest places to live’ in 2024 revealed

Gen-Zs were the most likely to feel they would be happier living somewhere else, while those aged 55-plus were the least likely, Rightmove said.

Evening Standard

Unexpected colour combos on celebrities that actually work

From pink and brown to green and purple, these unexpected colour combos will freshen up any look…

Woman & Home

Dollar Weakness and Strength in Crude Pushes Sugar Prices Higher

March NY world sugar #11 (SBH25 ) Tuesday closed up +0.30 (+1.42%), and March London ICE white sugar #5 (SWH25 ) closed up +5.50 (+1.00%). Sugar prices Tuesday posted moderate gains as a weaker dollar and a +2% jump in crude prices (CLF25 ) sparked short covering in sugar futures....

Barchart

Cocoa Prices Slump on Increased Supplies from the Ivory Coast

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25 ) Tuesday closed down -364 (-3.87%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25 ) closed down -362 (-4.68%). Cocoa prices Tuesday settled sharply lower, with London cocoa posting a 1-week low. An increase in cocoa supplies from the Ivory Coast, the world's largest producer, is...

Barchart

The £35m starter home: why the super-rich are queueing up for a phenomenally pricey pied-à-terre

At about 130 times the price of the average home in the UK, the smallest apartments at 1 Mayfair are eye-wateringly expensive. So why are they proving so popular?

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Evening Standard

The Trafalgar Square Christmas tree: The good, the bad and the ugly

Oslo has gifted London with a Norwegian spruce every year since 1947 - but criticism of the trees’ appearance is constant

The Guardian - UK

Parmigianino: The Vision of St Jerome review – a wild religious masterpiece reborn

The genitals of the dreaming hermit Jerome are thrust into our eyeline in a quirky painting that gets more subversive the longer you look at it

International Business Times

Texas Woman Tries To Fly Suitcases Stuffed With Pot To London, Customs Claims

The marijuana had a street value of up to $330,000 in the US and much more in London.

Barchart

Sugar Rebounds as a Weaker Dollar and Strength in Crude Sparks Short Covering

March NY world sugar #11 (SBH25 ) today is up +0.37 (+1.76%), and March London ICE white sugar #5 (SWH25 ) is up +6.60 (+1.21%). Sugar prices today are moderately higher as a weaker dollar, and a +2% jump in crude prices (CLF25 ) sparked short covering in sugar futures....

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Cocoa Prices Slide as the Ivory Coast Ramps-Up Cocoa Production

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25 ) today is down -355 (-3.78%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25 ) is down -359 (-4.64%). Cocoa prices today are sharply lower, with London cocoa falling to a 1-week low. An increase in cocoa supplies from the Ivory Coast, the world's largest producer,...

Evening Standard

Betwixtmas fun: 13 things to do with kids in London between now and the New Year

Keep the Christmas magic going for a little longer, says Anjana Gosai

Evening Standard

Drug smugglers jailed after £200m of cocaine found in banana boxes

Crime boss Petko Zhutev was in charge of taking delivery of the Colombian drugs at a London warehouse in February 2021.

The Times of India

Elton John lost his vision; signs and symptoms of eye infections that can cause blindness

Pop icon Elton John revealed he is battling a severe eye infection which has led to loss of his vision. At a charity event for the musical “The Devil Wears Prada” in London, John, told the audience that he was unable to see his performance.

Evening Standard

Surge in staff absences at London hospitals due to mental health

Earlier this year, government funding for mental health and wellbeing hubs for NHS workers was cut

Evening Standard

Russian spies plotted ‘fake blood’ protest at London embassy, jurors told

The UK-based ringleader, Orlin Roussev, had brainstormed ideas with his Russian spymaster, the Old Bailey heard.

Evening Standard

Cheers to that: 40 per cent of London homeowners say local pub influenced their property choice

A surprising number of surveyed homeowners put an offer while sitting at their future local

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