The London Standard - September 05, 2024

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September 05, 2024

Kidman's drama is not-so-perfect

ON PAPER, everything about Netflix’s new and much-hyped mystery drama, The Perfect Couple, screams hit show. Much like Big Little Lies, it’s a hit book- turned-high-production-series.

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Draper set to net millions after following in Murray's footsteps to reach US Open semis

JACK DRAPER was today predicted to make millions after becoming the first British man since Andy Murray in 2012 to reach the US Open semi-finals.

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Families call for manslaughter charges over fire

Those found culpable for Grenfell must face serious prison time’

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We'll force owners to fix buildings Grenfell will be a catalyst for change

LONDONERS will never forget the 72 innocent lives that were lost in the Grenfell Tower fire seven years ago.

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TfL apologises after suggesting woman caused her own death in fatal bus crash

TRANSPORT for London has issued a humbling apology to the family of a woman it wrongly suggested may have been at fault for her death in a fatal bus crash at Victoria bus station.

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More children walk or cycling to school in city since Ülez introduced

THE launch of the ultra-low emission zone in central London has been linked with an increase in the number of inner-city children walking or cycling to school.

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Woman dies and man missing in Majorca floods

RESCUERS today resumed the search for a British hiker missing in Majorca after a couple were “swept away” in flash floods.

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Bowie in Berlin: how the German city changed him

Anew radio show explores how David Bowie disappeared into the city to reinvent himself. Dylan Jones has a first listen

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Our glorious Paralympics is no fluke at all

IT’S been an incredible Paralympic Games and I’ve loved watching all of the action whether it be on the track, on the court, in the water or the arena.

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Is Gen Z to blame for the horror show of carbonara in a can? Oh, do give over

THERE won’t be historians in the future — only conspiracy theorists — but if there were, you might expect them to pinpoint the downfall of civilisation to last week, when Heinz announced it had put spaghetti carbonara in a can (spoiler: it’s a disaster). Heinz says this is all Gen Z’s fault, because the lazy sods can’t be bothered to cook.

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Seven years on, the scandal of cladding still shames us

A S Britain absorbs the second phase of the report into the Grenfell Tower inferno, with its accumulation of horrors, an event last week serves as warning and a rebuke to the pace with which we have got here.

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What Londoners really want in bed (it's not what you think)

GEN Z are having the same amount of sex as baby boomers, BDSM is on the rise and a whopping number of millennials are open to polyamory, according to a new report into sex habits by the Kinsey Institute, in partnership with dating app Feeld.

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Lloyd's profits hit £4.9bn for half year as prices rise

LLOYD’S of London, one of the City’s most significant financial institutions, reported a sharp rise in half-year profits today in a boost for the Square Mile.

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The manager has exciting new ideas and beliefs - now I want the chance to show him what I can do

IT MUST have been an occasionally frustrating summer for Jarrod Bowen, who initially looked poised to be a key player for England at Euro 2024 before having to watch their strange tournament unfold from the sidelines.

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Pope needs strong finish after good start takes worrying dip

THE OVAL Test so often feels like the end of something, but that is not really the sense as this summer of red-ball renewal draws towards a close.

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I'M READY TO GO DISTANCE WITH SINNER'

DRAPER HAS PLENTY LEFT IN THE LOCKER FOR HIS BLOCKBUSTER US OPEN SEMI AGAINST WORLD Not

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