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Sugar Prices Slump on Expectations for Robust Global Supplies

July NY world sugar #11 (SBN25) Thursday closed down -0.09 (-0.52%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25) closed up +1.00 (+0.20%). Sugar prices settled mixed on Thursday, with July NY sugar posting a 3-3/4 year nearest-futures low. The outlook for higher Brazil sugar production is undercutting prices. On...

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Cocoa Prices Finish Moderately Lower as Tariffs Boost Prices and Dampen Demand

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN25 ) Thursday closed down -144 (-1.62%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN25 ) closed down -95 (-1.47%). Cocoa prices on Thursday settled moderately lower but remained above Wednesday's 1-week lows. Demand concerns are weighing on cocoa prices after chocolate maker Hershey Co. reported that...

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Video: Moment out-of-control dog tries to bite police horses on patrol

An out-of-control dog tried to bite the legs of two police horses on patrol in a London park on Monday, 21 April.

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Harrods hit by cyber attack amid wave of retailer hacking incidents

Marks & Spencer and Co-op have also been targeted in recent days as cybersecurity threats disrupt major high street names.

Evening Standard

A meth-fuelled Erik Satie marathon in swinging 60s London

Letters: When Richard Toop played the 840 repetitions of Satie’s Vexations in 1967, the ‘mild stimulant’ he asked for turned out to be anything but, writes Biddy Peppin

The Guardian - UK

Labour MP Florence Eshalomi laments 'lost year' for London housebuilding under new Government

Housing select committee chair claims Government’s lack of social homes target is because ministers do not want to give critics a ‘stick to beat them with’

Evening Standard

Harrods targeted by cyber hackers in latest online attack on UK retailer

Luxury London department store confirms it has been fighting ‘attempts to gain unauthorised access to some of our systems’

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Sugar Prices Pressured by Ample Supplies and Weak Demand

July NY world sugar #11 (SBN25 ) today is down -0.09 (-0.52%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) is up +0.80 (+0.16%). Sugar prices today are mixed, with July NY sugar posting a 2-1/2 month low and nearest-futures (K25) falling to a 3-3/4 year nearest-futures low. The...

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‘We created a monster’: Midge Ure reflects on Live Aid as musical heads to West End

Ahead of a London theatre run in May, Ultravox singer says 1985 charity gig probably couldn’t happen today because of low attention spans

The Guardian - UK

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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’

The Guardian - UK

‘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

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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.

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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.

Evening Standard

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

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

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

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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

The Conversation

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 Independent UK

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 Guardian - 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.

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