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UK - The Evening Standard

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  1. Oil prices have soared since the US and Israel began strikes on Iran, exceeding 100 dollars per barrel on Monday.
  2. The singer, 35, also revealed she is using her thirties to prepare for menopause after her mother’s health scare

  3. Total UK retail sales increased by just 1.1% year on year, against already sluggish growth last February and well below the 12-month average of 2.3%.
  4. Mr Sanchez has emerged as the EU’s most vocal critic of a joint attack by the US and Israel on Iran.
  5. The RAC said the daily average number of pothole reports it received from broken-down drivers last month was more than triple last February’s figure.
  6. The Government-backed Parker Review found ethnic diversity broadly improved across FTSE 350 boards and senior leadership in 2025.
  7. Maxwell Samuda’s grandmother is believed to have taken diethylstilbestrol, known as DES, more than 50 years ago.
  8. There was a backlash on social media after Zegler, who is from a Colombian background, was cast as the character, who is described as ‘white as snow’.
  9. The singer had two rounds of egg freezing when she was 24 and 27.
  10. The Comic Relief presenter recalled how she was recently mistaken for Winkleman by two girls who asked her for a photo outside a hotel.