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Sugar Prices Little Changed as Consolidation Emerges

October NY world sugar #11 (SBV25 ) Thursday closed unchanged, and October London ICE white sugar #5 (SWV25 ) closed up +0.40 (+0.09%). Sugar prices on Thursday settled little changed as prices consolidated recent losses. Some mild short covering emerged in sugar futures Thursday after the Brazilian real (^USDBRL )...

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NY Cocoa Settles Higher on Tighter ICE Cocoa Inventories

September ICE NY cocoa (CCU25 ) on Thursday closed up +174 (+2.05%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU25 ) closed down -21 (-0.38%). Cocoa prices on Thursday settled mixed, with NY cocoa climbing to a 5-week high. NY cocoa found support Thursday on signs of tighter supplies after ICE-monitored...

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‘Gift from Grenada’: grapefruit trees win protection after London campaign

Trees to remain as memorial to Marline Anderson, who died recently, and who planted them in Battersea in 1980s

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“It’s safe to say it has become the talk of the town every time it is used”: Gibson teases release of the P-90-equipped Les Paul Noel Gallagher has been playing at the Oasis reunion shows

Available from the Gibson Garage London on August 21, this limited run guitar is the spitting image of Gallagher's "hybrid" Les Paul –and it looks like he will be signing them too

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Sugar Prices Push Higher as They Consolidate Recent Losses

October NY world sugar #11 (SBV25 ) today is up +0.08 (+0.50%), and October London ICE white sugar #5 (SWV25 ) is up +2.10 (+0.45%). Sugar prices today are pushing higher as they consolidate recent losses. Some mild short covering emerged in sugar futures today after the Brazilian real (^USDBRL...

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NY Cocoa Prices Gain as Supplies Tighten

September ICE NY cocoa (CCU25 ) today is up +197 (+2.33%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU25 ) is down -38 (-0.69%). Cocoa prices today are mixed, with NY cocoa climbing to a 5-week high. NY cocoa found support today on signs of tighter supplies after ICE-monitored cocoa inventories...

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Why are proposals for China’s super-embassy in London so contentious?

Angela Rayner has asked China to un-redact parts of the plans that had been ‘greyed out’ in the application

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How Many Properties Does Rushanara Ali Have? Homelessness Minister Accused of Hiking Rent by £700 After Evicting Tenants

Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali faces calls to resign after evicting four tenants from her London townhouse and re-listing it £700 per month higher, sparking accusations of hypocrisy over her public stance on tenant rights.

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Another heatwave set for London: Everything you need to know

London is bracing for another heatwave next week, with temperatures potentially reaching over 30C

Evening Standard

Drive-by shooting of girl, nine, was supposed to be ‘smash and grab’ – accused

Javon Riley allegedly picked up the gunman in a stolen Nissan Juke on false plates before transferring to a Range Rover in north London.

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Missing out on £54m research fund ‘undermines’ northern universities, say mayors

The elected mayors warned that investment was ‘concentrated disproportionately in London and the South East’.

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Amnesty urges Met police not to arrest protesters supporting Palestine Action

Rights group warns freedom of expression could be violated, as first people are charged with showing support for banned organisation

The Guardian - UK

“We played a local gig and Jeff said, ‘Why don’t we go on tour with Brian Wilson?’” Nicolas Meier was playing in a London jazz club, when he looked up and spotted Jeff Beck standing a few feet away – it proved to be a life-changing moment

This former Jeff Beck collaborator re-recorded the songs he wrote for an unreleased Beck project. The results will likely have you freeway jammin’ in no time

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Self-confessed robber admits picking up gunman who shot girl in head

Jayon Riley, from Tottenham, north London, has denied attempted murder together with others and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to the girl.

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Who is Rushanara Ali? The homelessness minister forced to quit over London rent scandal

The Labour MP is said to have hiked the rent on the home near the Olympic Village by £700-a-month shortly after telling four tenants they had to move out

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Police hunt burglars who swiped gold and jewellery worth £500,000 from south London home

Detective Constable Jamie White said valuables had been passed down through generations of one family

The Independent UK

Burglars steal £500,000 of jewellery from south-east London home

The items, which included family heirlooms, were taken from a house in Bickley Road, Bromley, last year.

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Landlord who packed 18 people into east London house is fined £33,000

The house had been converted into 11 bedrooms and was being sub-divided into even more rooms when the landlord was finally prosecuted

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UK Pensioner, Student Arrested For Backing Palestine Action

Pensioner Marji Mansfield never imagined she would end up suspected of terrorism for protesting against the banning of a pro-Palestinian group.

Louder

The nine best artists to see at London's All Points East festival this month, from Doechii and Confidence Man, to Warmduscher and Chloe Qisha

All Points East festival returns to east London's Victoria Park this month, and, as usual, there's lots to get excited about across the coming weekends

Evening Standard

Tower Bridge and Cutty Sark on Big Half finisher medal designed with refugees

Members of the Coopah Refugee Run Club helped to design the medal and long-sleeved T-shirt for finishers at next month’s half marathon.

The Independent UK

Radisson Blu housekeepers in London to stage first hotel strike in 46 years

The union’s general secretary says the walkout is a historic turning point

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Billie Piper on teen fame, therapy and toxic masculinity

Wednesday star Billie Piper speaks to Olive Pometsey about surviving teenage stardom, raising kids in an age of toxic masculinity and learning to let go of perfectionism

The Guardian - UK

UK homelessness minister resigns after tenant eviction claims

Rushanara Ali was accused of hypocrisy after claims she removed tenants before rent rise of almost £700 a month

The Independent UK

Heung-Min Son admits LAFC ‘wasn’t first choice’ in debut press conference with club

Heung-min Son has revealed that Los Angeles FC (LAFC) was “not his first choice” when seeking a new club, after he decided to leave Tottenham Hotspur after 10 years at the north London team.

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