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Speedy Hire shares under pressure on profit alert

The London-listed equipment hire firm said full-year underlying earnings are set to drop to around £90 million, down from £97.1 million in 2024-25.

Evening Standard

Starmer calls for Reform to sack housing spokesman after ‘sickeningly insensitive’ Grenfell comments

Simon Dudley is facing criticism after saying ‘everyone dies’ and claiming ‘the pendulum has swung too far’ on building safety regulations

The Independent UK

Wireless Festival slammed as 'deeply irresponsible' over Kanye West booking

The UK's Jewish Leadership Council has criticised Wireless Festival for booking Kanye West, while the London Mayor insisted he was not "involved in" the decision.

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Another new player is coming to the smart glasses arena next year

A report has appeared suggesting London-based Nothing is working on smart glasses.

“Peter had such a glorious touch thanks to his wonderful simplicity. But then he went off the rails and became a gravedigger”: How 10cc’s Rick Fenn ended up working with David Gilmour, Peter Green, Mike Oldfield, and almost all of his other heroes

The underrated guitar great looks back on the “improbable serendipities” that punctuate his 50-year career, hails the guitar he’s been playing for almost all of it, and reveals the favorite solos in his catalog

Guitar World

The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley review – the laureate of bad relationships

Riley has always skewered cruelty with shattering exactitude. What’s new in this story of two old friends in London is the delicacy she brings to moments of tenderness

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re trapped’: developer’s unpaid debt leaves London flat owners unable to sell

Hackney leaseholders feel council made the problem worse by leaving £850,000 debt uncollected for eight years

The Guardian - UK

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Your Party to focus local election efforts on backing independent candidates

The party, whose parliamentary leader is Jeremy Corbyn, will back 250 candidates, focusing on urban areas

The Guardian - UK

What to do in April: Iconic London home tours, exhibitions and homewares to check out now

What to see, do and buy this month in the world of interiors

Evening Standard

What growing up with an unfaithful father taught me about love

FIRST PERSON: In 1980s London, Emma Fowle’s father was a world-champion powerlifter whose multiple affairs tore their family apart. Though her parents eventually reconciled, it wasn’t until Emma’s own marriage that she understood how deeply the damage had run

The Independent UK

Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the world’s greatest chefs

The long read: Endo Kazutoshi spent decades climbing to the top of the culinary world, only for a devastating fire to threaten it all. I joined him in the aftermath as he travelled around his homeland, visiting the people that helped make him

The Guardian - UK

Les Liaisons Dangereuses review – love is a fight for power in this bold staging

National theatre, LondonA queenly Lesley Manville steals the show in this dark, rageful tale of seduction as contact sport

The Guardian - UK

Arsenal duo prevail in Euro 'Battle of the Matildas'

Arsenal's Matildas have got the better of Chelsea's two Australian internationals to advance to the semi-finals of the Women's Champions League in London.

AAP

Sadiq Khan lashes out at Donald Trump over 'lies' about London

Sir Sadiq Khan has told diplomats it's important ⁠to counter the ‘propaganda’ coming from President Trump

Evening Standard

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London Green Party election candidate quits after sharing Golders Green arson attack conspiracy theory

Tope Olawoyin, who was due to stand for the Havering Green Party, has withdrawn from the council elections on May 7

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Crude Oil Weakness Pressures Sugar Prices

May NY world sugar #11 (SBK26 ) on Wednesday closed down -0.23 (-1.48%), and May London ICE white sugar #5 (SWK26 ) closed down -6.40 (-1.43%). Sugar prices tumbled to 2-week lows on Wednesday and settled sharply lower. Wednesday's -1% decline in crude oil prices (CLK26). undercuts ethanol prices, potentially...

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Excessive Dryness in West Africa Supports Cocoa Prices

May ICE NY cocoa (CCK26 ) on Wednesday closed up +45 (+1.36%), and May ICE London cocoa #7 (CAK26 ) closed down -17 (-0.68%). Cocoa prices settled mixed on Wednesday, with NY cocoa posting a 2-week high. Dry conditions in West Africa are supportive of cocoa prices, as recent rainfall...

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Sugar Prices Fall on Weakness in Crude Oil

May NY world sugar #11 (SBK26 ) today is down -0.27 (-1.74%), and May London ICE white sugar #5 (SWK26 ) is down -7.10 (-1.58%). Sugar prices tumbled to 2-week lows today and are sharply lower. Weakness in crude oil prices (CLK26 ) today is undercutting ethanol prices, potentially encouraging...

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Evening Standard

Pro-Palestine campaigners vow to appeal as two activists found guilty after 'peaceful protest'

Benjamin Jamal and Christopher Nineham were found guilty of breaching conditions imposed on a pro-Palestine march in central London

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Cocoa Prices Supported by Dry Conditions in West Africa

May ICE NY cocoa (CCK26 ) today is up +60 (+1.82%), and May ICE London cocoa #7 (CAK26 ) is down -12 (-0.48%). Cocoa prices are mixed today, with NY cocoa posting a 2-week high. Dry conditions in West Africa are supportive of cocoa prices, as recent rainfall has been...

Evening Standard

I'm a Celebrity star Lord Brocket denies rape and sexual assault

Peer and reality television star appears in court to deny charges

The Guardian - UK

Parents told to ‘take responsibility’ after two days of social media-fuelled London disorder

Six teenage girls arrested after hundreds of young people gather in Clapham in ‘swarming the streets’ trend

The Guardian - UK

‘The manosphere is dead and no one cares about Andrew Tate any more’: the poet taking on toxic masculinity

Sam Browne’s blend of brutal honesty and droll observation has made him a viral sensation. He talks about growing up in Southend, mental health and the healing power of poetry

Evening Standard

Pensioner murder horror: Woman in her 80s stabbed to death outside her southeast London home

Metropolitan Police officers were called to an address on Red Lion Place in Plumstead at 8.50am on Wednesday following reports of a man in possession of a knife

The Independent UK

We are so close to eradicating polio – the UK cannot afford to let progress slip

COMMENT: The UK’s decision to withdraw funding from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative sends precisely the wrong signal to the world about the value we place on this crucial effort for the health of others and health security for all, writes Timothy Hallett

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