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Foreign secretary Liz Truss has poured cold water on reports the UK dropped key climate pledges from its trade deal with Australia – despite other ministers, as well as the Australian PM, previously signalling this was the case.

Exclusive: Over a third of teenagers have seen drugs sold online including cocaine and ecstasy

Campaigner enjoys singalong with protesters in Scotland

DNA evidence from both women’s bodies link Fuller to their killings.

Customers were held inside Maverick’s 80s lounge for around two hours

16-year-old Wenjing Lin was killed in her family’s takeaway restaurant in March

‘Our families are at the end of their tether,’ parent says

A bus was hijacked and set alight in a unionist area

Ireland has backed France in the dispute

‘Many motorists feel unsafe’, says scathing report by transport committee

Disturbance happened as millions marked Halloween

Thirteen passengers treated in hospital after collision outside cathedral city on Sunday evening

EU ‘increasingly concerned’ that UK wants to ‘embark on a path of confrontation’

Nearly 40 per cent of poll respondents are calling for another lockdown as flu season begins

World’s third-biggest emitter will not hit net zero until 2070 – but may have have put summit back ‘on track’

Mustafa Dawood’s mother tells inquest: ‘I never want this to happen to any other family, to have their child taken away’

No 10 claims PM cannot take the train from climate summit because it would take too long

Nadhim Zahawi wants all schools open for 6.5 hours each day

Exclusive: Green investment hole in the budget branded a ‘disgrace’ for failing Net Zero pledge

Prime minister warned he is ‘answerable to MPs’ after failing to answer November 2020 letter demanding action

Aurora Borealis seen seen in several areas including Scarborough and Saltburn

‘I unequivocally apologise for the words I used’ says Welby after issuing a warning to leaders on climate

Exclusive: ‘We’re going to be using that moving forward,’ Warehouse Project founder says

Committee on Standards in Public Life review came after slew of ethics and sleaze scandals during pandemic

Reverend Mike Hall was working away when neighbours called to say someone was in his Luton home

‘There are other refugees who also left everything behind. It’s not fair to say that if they come through irregular routes, they should be detained,’ Shakib Nasery, who fled Afghanistan as a child, tells May Bulman

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Doctors have advised monarch to stay at home for two-week rest period

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s weeks-old government cleared its first major test in weekend national elections as his governing party secured just enough seats to maintain a free hand in pushing legislation through parliament

Police called the disorder ‘unacceptable’ and said they would make sure offenders were caught

Electrician is standing trial at Maidstone Crown Court accused of 1987 murders of Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, in Tunbridge Wells

Guidance will require gun licence applicants to show medical history and allow police to check their social media accounts

‘The people who will judge us are children not yet born – and their children. If we fail, they will not forgive us’

Former Portuguese prime minister said ‘addiction’ to fossil fuels is ‘pushing humanity to the brink’

Labour claims disgraced MP ‘has no place in parliament, politics or public life’

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Driver managed to escape unharmed but left ‘badly shaken’ by incident in County Down

New rules are to make it easier to become an articulated lorry driver. Colin Drury enjoyed a taster lesson but wonders if the change could risk road safety…

Three remain as inpatients morning after crash, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust says

A spokesperson in France said the boat would not be allowed to leave until the money is paid

The council said the trio were initially assessed by the Home Office as being at least 25 years old

Video footage shows police chasing crowds of youths as explosives set off in two separate incidents

The man in his twenties was pronounced dead at the scene

John Rentoul will be on hand to answer your latest questions regarding Brexit following the latest dispute over fishing rights

Exclusive: Experts warn new measures risk ‘seriously undermining’ ability to tackle crimes against children