Thousands of schoolchildren and university students plan to 'invade' the City in a mass demonstration against education cuts, the Evening Standard can reveal... more
They are young, ethnically diverse and their heroes are Thatcher, Churchill and even Gladstone, but as the Tory party conference closes, is there really a future Prime Minister among them?... more
Titbit on the succession saga at Deutsche Bank. Chairman Josef Ackermann has so far refused to back the obvious candidate to replace him, London investment bank head Anshu Jain, whose division now makes 90% of the group's profits... more
What's going on at Gatwick airport? A year ago, the chairman of owner GAL, Sir David Rowlands, stated publicly that the company had "not a shred of interest in a second runway"... more
The director of the National Gallery, Nicholas Penny, has written his own idiosyncratic guide to his favourite works in the collection - and it's a must for any London art-lover... more
Like the ever-jilted bride, students have allowed political parties to get into bed with them, only to get screwed over and dumped at the altar the morning after election day... more
Commentary: For maybe the last time all Labour's great spinners of 1997 were united, but the cocky swagger came from the Tory would-be Malcolm Tuckers... more
Ben Shephard is to quit GMTV at the end of the summer. Meanwhile fellow GMTV presenter Kate Garraway is undergoing hospital treatment for appendicitis.
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City Editor's Comment: David Gill, Manchester United's chief executive, left me under no illusion that he opposed the Glazers' bid. So why did he change his mind?... more
Chrissie Wellington has broken every record in the book for the gruelling long-distance triathlon. She tells Sophie Goodchild why she is prepared to train for six hours a day, seven days a week... more
Doctors from a euthanasia clinic held secret talks at Heathrow airport with a London pensioner before helping him die last week, the Standard has learned... more
It's a hard life as a king in waiting. After two years as an Army officer, Prince William will soon have to move back in with Charles and Camilla at Clarence House as he adjusts to full-time royal duties.... more
The father of a teenager stabbed to death before the boy could begin his university career today made an anguished appeal for an end to knife crime... more
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