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Video: Thirty years ago, Robert Stephenson brought U2 to London. Now it emerges he gave Jedward their first break — see an exclusive video of them singing here
Read full article...In a brave but disturbing interview, a law-abiding kebab shop owner sheds light on the thugs who caused him to flee his home, family and business in fear of his life
Frank Turner's gone from Etonian punk rocker 'despised' at school to bohemian hobo, hitting the road after a family betrayal.
Bonnie Greer reveals what really went on behind the scenes on the gripping Question Time
When a London surgeon promised Vivienne Edwards a cure for chronic back pain she couldn’t know the danger she was putting herself in
A Standard investigation reveals how Europe's biggest young offender institution is seen as 'a holiday camp'
Ken Hinds has been commended by the Met for his courage in tackling knife gangs yet he has had to take the police to court for harassment and has won £22,000 compensation. Why?
As the Tories laud the achievement of a Hackney academy, we visit a once failing Lambeth primary that has an Ofsted report any school would envy
Razak Farley grew up in an area blighted by drugs and violence, but thanks to a trailblazing academy in east London he’s now won a £28,000 scholarship
In an exclusive interview, the Prince reveals how he is leading research into the brain trauma of abused children
From a Kilburn warehouse to Florida’s millionaires’ playground — how a maverick cop cracked a 10-year-old murder case that this week may put a playboy in prison for life
Star student Andre Young was on his first boys-only trip away when he was killed. Here his mother talks about Crete’s refusal to investigate his death
The remarkable story of how Kara Hoyte identified the man who tried to kill her as 32-year-old pro footballer Mario Celaire, and bravely saw him for jailed for life
After the tragic death of his 18-year-old son in a freak racing accident, John Surtees talks about his almost unbearable loss
A London civil servant wanted for a crime she was acquitted of in 1988 tells of the torment of being a victim of new EU terror laws
The latest Muslim "honour" attack in Leytonstone has prompted one survivor of a forced marriage to go public with her own harrowing story
Last week, when a smiling Trevor Phillips told his assembled board that he had been reappointed as chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, he was greeted by a deafening silence
When a London graduate lost his family in the 2005 Kashmir disaster, Standard readers came to his aid — but £3.5bn has since been squandered by corrupt officials
It is Monday evening and I am sitting in the living room of the home of Ann and Alan Keen, drinking a cold beer around their fireplace
Last week's Appeal Court ruling that the JFS school must admit a 12-year-old boy barred essentially because his mother is "not Jewish enough" will be music to the ears of those who have long felt state-funded faith schools have no business ruling on who is Jewish, Christian or Muslim
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