News of some lads on trial (6)
I believe the answer is:
latest
'news' is the definition.
(I know that latest is a type of news)
'some lads on trial' is the wordplay.
'some' becomes 'a'.
'lads' becomes 'l' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'trial' becomes 'test' (synonyms).
'a' after 'l' is 'la'.
'la'+'test'='LATEST'
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for latest that I've seen before include "Up-to-the-minute" , "delayed more than all others" , "coming after all the others" , "Most up to the minute" , "Stop press news?" .)