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Dollar Weakness Fuels Short Covering in Sugar Futures

May NY world sugar #11 (SBK25 ) Wednesday closed up +0.34 (+1.94%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) closed up +7.20 (+1.47%). Sugar prices Wednesday rose moderately as a weaker dollar (DXY00 ) sparked short-covering in sugar futures. Sugar prices have been on the defensive this week,...

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Short Covering Pushes Cocoa Prices Higher

May ICE NY cocoa (CCK25 ) Wednesday closed up +94 (+1.17%), and May ICE London cocoa #7 (CAK25 ) closed up +52 (+0.90%). Cocoa prices recovered from early losses on Wednesday and settled moderately higher as a weaker dollar (DXY00 ) sparked short covering in cocoa futures. Last Wednesday, NY...

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Could high-tech 'damp and mould sensors' act as 'early warning' for London's council tenants?

Pilot scheme found sensors enabled ‘more efficient use of housing officer time’, though some tenants were reluctant to install the devices

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Sadiq Khan urged to identify new allotment sites in London to enable more food-growing

Data shared with the London Assembly reveals significant gap in stock of allotments between inner and outer London

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More children in northern cities getting places at preferred school – study

Hundreds of thousands of families across England are finding out which primary school their child will be joining this September.

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David Sassoon obituary

Fashion designer who worked with Belinda Bellville and dressed Diana, Princess of Wales, for many years

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Surprising wildlife in and around London: where to spot wallabies, parakeets, snakes and more

From Hampstead to Regent’s Canal, here’s a guide to the most unexpected animals living in and near the capital

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Sugar Prices Rebound on Dollar Weakness

May NY world sugar #11 (SBK25 ) today is up +0.32 (+1.83%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) is up +6.70 (+1.37%). Sugar prices today are moderately higher as a weaker dollar (DXY00 ) sparked short-covering in sugar futures. Sugar prices have been on the defensive this...

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Dollar Weakness Spurs Short Covering in Cocoa Futures

May ICE NY cocoa (CCK25 ) today is up +21 (+0.26%), and May ICE London cocoa #7 (CAK25 ) is up +50 (+0.86%). Cocoa prices today recovered from early losses and moved moderately higher as a weaker dollar (DXY00 ) sparked short covering in cocoa futures. Last Wednesday, NY cocoa...

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Over 10,000 London children miss out on first preference primary school amid warning over tumbling birthrate

Overall, 87.9% of pupils in London received an offer from their first choice school, equivalent to 73,481 children, data revealed on Wednesday

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Fewer London children secure top choice of primary school

The number of applications for places at primary schools in the capital has fallen again this year.

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‘Apparently, he had a fist fight with King Charles’: the jawdropping life of Luca Prodan, Argentina’s punk god

He was a gin-swilling Scottish-Italian heroin addict who set Argentina’s music scene ablaze – baffling the junta, who would arrest his audiences. As a biopic looms, we look at the fast life and early death of the still-worshipped frontman

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Council plans legal action over ancient London oak felled by Toby Carvery

Enfield council disputes restaurant chain’s claim 500-year-old tree in Whitewebbs Park was ‘mostly dead’

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London road crime: specialist Met police unit only investigates one in 10 serious injury crashes

Concern that many victims are treated as lower priority and struggle to secure compensation

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Gang used Grindr to lure 50 victims then burgled their London homes

Suspects arranged to meet victims at their homes via the dating app

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Police name 21-year-old victim of fatal stabbing in south London

Giovanny Rendon Bedoya was found with stab injuries on Monday.

The Independent UK

The ‘game changer’ heart failure treatment trialled in the UK that cuts deaths by two-thirds

St George’s Hospital in Tooting, London, and Morriston Hospital in Swansea, Wales, became the first two hospitals in the UK to treat patients with the innovative method

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What's driving the remarkable deals rush from Abu Dhabi owned house builder London Square?

Aldar owned London Square has already swooped on 15 sites in London in less than 18 months

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Rare otter sighting recorded in Canary Wharf in sign of species' 'remarkable' recovery

Security camera footage captured the elusive creature on a dock in Canary Wharf in boost for London wildlife

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Everything we know about the felling of Enfield's ancient oak tree: cause, consequences and reactions

Toby Carvery's decision to cut down a centuries-old oak tree in Enfield has led to public anger and an investigation into its legality

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Manchester bomb plotter ‘moved to Belmarsh prison’ after guards attacked

Hashem Abedi has been transferred to the high security jail in south-east London, it is understood.

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James Corden 'wins planning battle to build gym and spa at his £11.5M London home after neighbours war'

The former The Late Late Show host had received 18 letters of objection over his proposed plans from neighbours who complained about noise

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'By the time we were back in the bus in London we were all believing that we could come back in the tie. The most word used in the dressing room in the last days is "Remontada"': Real Madrid star Jude Bellingham reveals confidence ahead of Arsenal clash

Real Madrid will need to beat Arsenal by three goals to simply stay in the Champions League on Wednesday night

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Visas not an issue in UK trade talks, insists India's top diplomat in London amid Trump tariff chaos

Vikram K Doraiswami stressed that his country wanted Indian companies to be able to move staff to Britain ‘more easily’ as part of an agreement, but their focus was on hiring locally

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Extinction Rebellion co-founder loses appeal over Heathrow drone conspiracy

Roger Hallam and Larch Maxey appealed against their convictions at a hearing in London in March.

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