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1. M25 closed in both directions near Potters Bar as lorry bursts into flames

   Fire sends huge plumes of smoke over motorway

2. West Midlands police boss ‘due to retire’ amid Maccabi fan ban fallout

   Police and crime commissioner for the West Midlands Simon Foster is expected to speak to the media later and announce the exit of Craig Guildford.

3. Labour ‘out of step’ on oil and gas, says Badenoch as poll shows support

   The Tory leader was speaking to journalists during a visit to Aberdeen.

4. Sadiq Khan warns Labour will lose councillors in 'challenging' London borough elections

   Westminster, Wandsworth and Barnet all on a knife-edge - while Reform UK could win in Tory boroughs

5. Exclusive: Laila Cunningham says women in burkas need to be searched

   Nigel Farage’s London mayoral candidate tells The Standard podcast: ‘I don't think in an open society people should cover their face. It provides a cloak of anonymity for criminals’

6. Kate Moss' 52nd birthday: the supermodel's 52 most iconic looks to date

   As Kate Moss, supermodel of a generation, turns 52, Joe Bromley rounds up her 52 greatest looks

7. No reasonable precautions could have prevented Glencoe deaths, sheriff concludes

   David Fowler, 39. Graham Cox, 60, and Hazel Crombie, 64, died after falling while roped together on Aonach Eagach in August 2023.

8. Charles tells Ukraine: ‘We stand with you’

   The King has publicly supported Ukraine since the early period of Russia’s invasion.

9. 'Traitors' politics: Minister's warning as Farage teases Labour defection to Reform after Jenrick joins from Tories

   Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said Reform UK was a ‘Right-wing project’ despite Nigel Farage’s party attracting a significant number of Labour voters

10. Robert Jenrick: My defection to Reform ‘united the right’

    In an interview with the BBC, Mr Jenrick denied that personal ambition had played a role in his defection.