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Robert Dex is Arts Correspondent and a news reporter for the Evening Standard

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Robert Dex is Arts Correspondent and a news reporter for the Evening Standard

UK

Fresh pressure on Sunak as small boat crossings up on last June

The number of Channel crossings by people in small boats so far this month is now higher than the number for the whole of June last year, figures show

Jun 23, 2023
World

Families pay tribute to Britons among five killed on Titanic sub

Family of father-and-son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, from south-west London, urge well-wishers to keep their ‘departed souls and our family in your prayers’

Jun 23, 2023
London

Frazer defends museums’ funding as National Portrait Gallery re-opens

The gallery closed for three years for a £41.3 million revamp

Jun 22, 2023
London

Sadiq Khan warns London faces ‘a wave of repossessions’

Mr Khan called for ‘flexibility’ in mortgage deals

Jun 22, 2023
World

Iceland calls time on whale hunting - perhaps for good?

Iceland’s decision could see a permanent end to its tradition of whale hunting

Jun 21, 2023
UK

Former chief medical officer close to tears in Covid inquiry apology

‘It wasn’t just the deaths, it was the way they died. It was horrible’, Professor Dame Sally Davies said

Jun 20, 2023
Politics

MPs vote to back report finding Boris Johnson lied to Parliament

118 Conservative MPs voted in favour of the Privileges Committee report while no vote was recorded for 225 MPs

Jun 20, 2023
LIVE

Tory MPs may be forced to show if they support Boris Johnson

Rishi Sunak and a number of Tory cabinet ministers are expected to avoid the parliamentary debate

Jun 19, 2023