Highlights
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Survey names top 20 places to live in the UK
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Ford transit van transformed into an one-of-a-kind campervan
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Old Kent Road flats a far cry from the area's Monopoly board infamy
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Top 25 London commuter towns ranked by house prices and journey times
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One of London's cheapest areas for homebuyers is being reinvented
Pictures of the day
Pictures of the day
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1/30 One way to tackle the water jump
Flyboarders Ross Ceaton, Liam Davidson and Steve Leigh, dressed in the jockey's silks of leading contenders for Saturday's Grand National, race each other at the Liverpool Watersports Centre as part of a bookmaker's countdown to the biggest betting horse race in Britain
Anthony Devlin/PA
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2/30 Pink carats
World’s most expensive diamond 'Pink Star' - a whopping 59.6 carats - has sold for £57m at auction
Vincent Yu/AP
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3/30 Wild Life
A relocated rhino charges a Nepalese forestry and technical team riding elephants after being released as part of a relocation project in Chitwan National Park, about 155 miles south of Kathmandu
AFP/Getty Images
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4/30 Terrified in Tokyo
People react as Japan's On-Art Corp's 6.4 metre tall dinosaur-shaped robot in Tokyo. We're not sure the mask will save the gentleman in the rear
Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images
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5/30 A real Spring Lamb
Spring lambs play in the sunshine near Berkhamsted
Jeremy Selwyn
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6/30 Heir raising
Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, pose at Pitti Palace in downtown Florence, Italy
Tony Gentile/Reuters
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7/30 Ape-le of mum's eye
Bornean orangutan Sarikei holds onto her new as yet unnamed baby at Chester Zoo. The species is critically endangered and this is the first birth at the zoo in almost a decade
Chester Zoo
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8/30 For those in rows 7-35, please form an orderly queue at the gate
New employees of Japan Airlines (JAL) attend a company entrance ceremony at a maintenance hangar in Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan
Franck Robichon/EPA
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9/30 Serene Queen
A Sotheby's employee adjusts a photograph by British photographer Chris Levine of The Queen called 'Lightness of Being' during a press preview in London
Will Oliver/EPA
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10/30 Planting new roots
A flower seller stands on his stall on the final full day of trading at London's 'Covent Garden Flower Market'.The market will shortly move to a new bright modern premises, still in Nine Elms, as it continues to grow
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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11/30 Owl you going to get out of that one?
A barred owl is lodged between the cab and the cargo hold of a truck after it was hit and became trapped there while he was traveling earlier this month from Massachusetts to New Hampshire
Will Sword via AP
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12/30 What a view
It’s not a job for anyone with vertigo, but this stunning view was the bonus for maintenance workers at the BT Tower. Rope access technician Marius Grecu, 33, was pictured by his boss Steve Collier during a job below the revolving restaurant on the tower’s 34th floor
Steve Collier
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13/30 Spring has sprung
Three-year-old Eve Chick runs under cherry blossom during a photo call for the Moomin Adventures at Kew Gardens Easter Festival at Royal Botanic Gardens
Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP
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14/30 Part of Putin's growing Cold War?
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu visit Alexandra Land in the Franz Josef Land Archipelago, Arkhangelsk region, Russia
EPA
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15/30 Best of friends
A Malaysian tiger cub plays with resident nursery dog Blakely at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens
John Minchillo/AP
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16/30 How do I change up to Top Gear
Top Gear's driver The Stig driving a restored vintage bumper car to speeds of over 100mph, as he claimed a new Guinness World Record
Roderick Fountain/BBC
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17/30 We're leaving EU
Britain's ambassador to the EU Tim Barrow, left, delivers British Prime Minister Theresa May's formal notice of the UK's intention to leave the bloc under Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty to European Council President Donald Tusk in Brussels
Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
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18/30 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again....
Some of the 404 participants poses for a photo during the "Next Einstein" competition which set a Guinness World Record for the "largest gathering of people dressed as Albert Einstein" according to organizers of the Einstein Legacy Project, to encourage innovation and free-thinking, in Toronto, Canada
Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University/Reuters
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19/30 Battered
A local resident walks past a yacht that was washed ashore after Cyclone Debbie hit the northern Queensland town of Airlie Beach, located south of Townsville in Australia
Dan Peled/AAP/Reuters
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20/30 Flower power
Models wear floral arrangements to promote Keukenhof, the largest flower show in the world, at Central Station in Utrecht, The Netherlands
Peter Dejong/AP
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21/30 Victory
Claire Blackman, wife of jailed former British soldier Alexander Blackman, Marine A, reacts outside the The Royal Courts of Justice in London after learning her husband will be freed within weeks because his sentence has been downgraded to seven years for shooting a Taliban fighter
Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images
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22/30 Restored to its rightful place
The restored Gainsborough painting The Morning Walk which had been slashed by a vandal is pictured back hanging on the walls of the National Gallery in London
Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images
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23/30 Tributes
Floral tributes are attached to railings in Parliament Square following the attack in Westminster
Stefan Wermuth/Reuters
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24/30 Blossoming
Women in kimonos take photos under the cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin on a misty morning in Washington DC
Kevin Lamarque /Reuters
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25/30 Pausing to remember
MP Tobias Ellwood, who battled to save PC Keith Palmer after he was stabbed outside Parliament, looks over the floral tributes at Parliament Square
Jeremy Selwyn
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26/30 Storm brewing
Storm clouds gather in the town of Ayr in far north Queensland, Australia, as Cyclone Debbie approaches
Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images
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27/30 What the Dickens?
A woollen court suit that was worn by Charles Dickens when he met Edward, Prince of Wales at St James's Palace on 6 April 1870, lies in the bedroom at the Charles Dickens Museum in London. The suit, which has undergone conservation work is the only known surviving clothing worn by Dickens
John Stillwell/PA
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28/30 Bali scary face
Balinese people prepare an effigy known as "Ogoh-Ogoh" during parade one day before 'Silent Day' in Jimbaran on Indonesia's resort island of Bali
Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP/Getty Images
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29/30 Unity
The colours of the Union flat are projected on to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the day after the March 22 terror attack in London
Jorg Carstensen/AFP/Getty Images
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30/30 Heed over heels
Participants take part in the Mud Day race, a 13km obstacle course in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv
Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images
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Corsica Studios club co-founder dies after rare cancer battle
The co-founder of one of London's most respected nightclubs has died after losing a cancer battle.
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Yellow coffee cup bins pop up across City in huge recycling drive
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Family's tribute to Leyton Orient superfan killed in moped crash
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Delivery vans and apps like Uber 'fuel rise in pollution in London'
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London business confidence 'precarious' ahead of Brexit
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Diesel cars ‘12 times over toxic limit in London’
Panmure Gordon: City brokers ‘hanging on by a thread’
Panmure Gordon chief executive Patric Johnson on Tuesday warned that the competitive environment for small and medium-sized City brokers is the toughest for more than 30 years.
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Madame D’s: Team behind Gunpowder to launch Himalayan restaurant
The restaurant will be smoky, cosy and full of the aromas of spices
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Gerald Scarfe's political cartoons are going up for auction at Sotheby
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London community art group brings colour to Syrian refugee camp
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Danny Boyle to reunite with Olympic Opening Ceremony choreographers
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Queer British Art 1861-1967 review: Landmark show tries to do too much
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Bluebird launches 'Airbnb for work spaces'
James Corden confirms that The Late Late Show will come to London
The Londoner will shoot three episodes in the capital in June
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Child of Our Time, BBC1: Everything you need to know about series 11
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Made in Chelsea’s Ollie Locke confirms he is leaving E4 series
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Eamonn Holmes makes return to breakfast TV as he joins GMB
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Sir Tom Jones swears live on air as stage is invaded on The Voice
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Mo Adeniran crowned the winner of The Voice 2017
Sir Tom Jones explains expletive outburst on The Voice
The Welsh crooner said he let slip the expletive out of shock
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Mel B ‘takes out restraining order’ against husband Stephen Belafonte
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Carrie Fisher plays last ever TV role in Catastrophe finale
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Kylie Minogue honoured by Duke of Edinburgh at Windsor Castle
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Pierce Brosnan backs ‘brilliant’ Daniel Craig to play Bond again
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Riz Ahmed is still a London boy and visits his parents every week
Why effortless elegance is now one big pyjama party
Step away from the spandex and slip into something silky
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John Lennon’s former Surrey home is up for sale for £9m
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The 10-year transformation of TV star Daniel Hopwood's home
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Wilton Castle for sale, with moat, watchtower and dungeon...
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How to decorate your home with this spring's coolest shade
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Luxury homes for sale in Norton Motorcycles founder's former mansion
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Don’t make these monstrous mistakes
Sarah Sands: Elizabethan age returns on all kinds of levels
The row over Gibraltar is blue on blue. If you had to create Brexit Utopia, it might look a little like Gibraltar. Union Jackwaving, obsessed by sovereignty, expert on financial services. It is Nigel Farage in geological form.
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Sam Leith: The Brexit mob really are living in a strange world
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Melanie McDonagh: Peaceful campaigner & suffragist finally recognised
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Evening Standard comment: Let’s not argue with Spain over Gibraltar
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Peter Murray: What will our skyline look like in the future?
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Evening Standard comment: Brexit: talk about talks
David Miliband: After 7 years Syria’s problem from hell must be solved
At a conference in Brussels this week, it is up to the international community to break the deadlock