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UK - The Evening Standard

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  1. Retailers Tesco, Sainsbury’s, M&S and Co-op no longer pay in line with the salary benchmark.
  2. The rapper, who has been condemned for antisemitism, is set to top the bill for all three nights of the festival in London’s Finsbury Park in July.
  3. Tens of thousands of resident doctors in England are to stage a six-day walkout on Tuesday.
  4. Contingency plans have been put in place by hospital trusts across the country, but cancellations and delays are expected

  5. Max Dowman was the only positive for Arsenal at the weekend as a rotated cast were well beaten in the FA Cup quarter-final

  6. This is an era of protest and, in the Selfridges salt beef bar, Howard Jacobson is talking about placards. He hates them because he is a novelist. “The human body holding a placard is a very ugly sight,” he says. “Even if what was written on the placard was, ‘I’m very Jewish, I believe in God, and I’m a Leavisite [Jacobson studied under the critic F. R. Leavis at Cambridge].’”

  7. From the local pool to open water, Sian Lewis dives into supportive sports-ready swimwear

  8. The 2026-27 tax year is the last that the tax-free annual limit on cash Isas will be at £20,000 for adults of all ages, under planned rule changes.
  9. Paramedics battled to save woman but she was sadly pronounced dead at the scene

  10. Donald Trump hails the dramatic rescue operation of US pilots in Iran, but it casts doubt on the president's claims of airspace control