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News of some lads on trial (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

latest

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'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.

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(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?" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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