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London fintech Paydock secures £25 million Series A funding round

Payments orchestration business Paydock has become the latest London fintech to attract an eight-figure funding round, the Standard can reveal.

Evening Standard · May 23, 2023

Disabled woman forced to sleep in dining room of west London Travelodge after room ‘out of order’

Kat Watkins was left ‘tired and in pain’ after Travelodge ‘completely messed up’ her night

Evening Standard · May 22, 2023

‘My daughter had 30 seizures a day. Medicinal cannabis helped turn her life around’

Father of girl, 7, with severe epilepsy opens London clinic to help those with chronic conditions

Evening Standard · May 22, 2023

Tech giants should help pay for 5G, say Europe’s mobile operators

Consumers will have to pay a lot more for 5G and broadband internet if companies like Meta, Apple, and Microsoft don’t contribute

Evening Standard · May 19, 2023

Ex-Celtic boss Ronny Deila 'set to quit' Standard Liege job

Reports in Belgium suggest that the Norweigan is set to join league rivals Club Brugge after making a U-turn on his future.

The National (Scotland) · May 18, 2023

Jeremy Corbyn backed to stand as Labour candidate by members in Islington North

The former Labour leader told the Standard he was ‘focused on campaigning to end poverty, homelessness and inequality on behalf of the people of Islington North’

Evening Standard · May 18, 2023

National Grid calls for ‘agile’ regulation in green power push as profits near £5 billion

Electricity newtork’s CEO tells The Standard that this winter’s measures to cut demand were a ‘glimpse of the future’

Evening Standard · May 18, 2023

How a student tricked the Irish Times into running a fake AI-written opinion piece

An opinion piece criticising women for wearing fake tan has been found to have been written by AI. The Standard speaks to the individual behind it

Evening Standard · May 16, 2023

OPINION - The Standard View: Dirty money ruling is victory for the Standard — and for open justice

In a victory for open justice and the role of a free press, the Evening Standard can today reveal that a multi-millionaire Conservative Party donor who owns London’s Conran Shop and is the landlord of Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire is a key figure linked to a major money-laundering operation targeted…

Evening Standard · May 16, 2023

Greggs abandons sausage roll court fight as Westminster City Council backs down on demands

Greggs CEO Roisin Currie said: ‘we’ve reached a compromise’

Evening Standard · May 16, 2023