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Kwasi Kwarteng ‘confident’ inflation can be contained

The snake was discovered in a shipping container which had arrived from India

One of the victims remains in hospital in a critical condition

Lockdown talk ‘completely unhelpful’, says cabinet minister who insists current approach ‘working’

Man and woman held following blast which police say was caused by gas pipe being cut inside property

Women being spiked via injection risk catching diseases such as HIV or Hepatitis

3.1 million people so far have had Covid booster jabs in ‘extremely slow’ roll-out

Men ‘nipped’ by pet described as ‘big softie,’ resulting in them getting sepsis

They are this generation’s James and Sarah – but experts perplexed over ongoing popularity

‘Worrying signs’ Covid-19 measures have ‘worsened’ poor access to healthcare in jails, says Nuffield Trust

British people who travel to future war zones will also spend longer in prison

Terminal Two will reopen late Tuesday evening, says Greater Manchester Police

‘He’s just sort of had to take it on the chin,’ local councillor says

Report on scheme’s effectiveness stopping people being drawn into terrorism should have been completed last month

Bomber’s childhood friend who was also ordered to appear at same hearing arrested while trying to leave the country

Evie Bratt, 12, last seen in Oxfordshire town of Banbury

Incident comes just days after killing of Southend West MP Sir David Amess

James Ankrett, 40, sent ‘provocative selfies’ of himself in bed to the vulnerable victim

David Henderson, 67, is on trial charged with endangering the safety of an aircraft

Former Labour MP, who died in 2015, was accused of string of crimes spanning three decades

Matthew Cronjager, 18, was attempting to procure a 3D-printed gun and planning a storage bunker for weapons

When told that she was being arrested for murder, Penelope Jackson replied ‘oh good’ and asked for her slippers

Labour claim plans ‘torpedoed’ by Rishi Sunak, as Treasury warns of need to replace £37bn of fuel taxes

Boris Johnson forcing ‘innocent first-time buyers’ to pay for failures, say Lib Dems

Chancellor Rishi Sunak expected to try to rebalance books after massive borrowing to pay for pandemic, with jobs plan, minimum wage, council tax and student loans in the spotlight

Prime minister said to have been unable to attend as he was meeting with first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

‘Two doses really are needed to block infection and to prevent transmission’, leading epidemiologist says

Lee Cunliffe, 40, has been suspended from duty since his arrest

The puppet is on a 5,000 mile-long journey from the Turkish-Syrian border to Manchester

Lords committee urges Brexit minister to finally listen to ‘compelling’ evidence of careers at risk

DWP accused of applying ‘invasive’ and ‘inappropriate’ conditions for universal credit claimants

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‘I can deploy billions .... but you can deploy trillions’, prime minister says - extolling ‘free market capitalism’

Richard Jenkins initially cut the hedge into the shape of a hand flipping the middle finger for a joke

‘You don’t have an open, uncontested right to foist your views on other people,’ MP Stella Creasy says

Boris Johnson promises ‘guilt-free’ flying and electric cars ‘gliding silently around cities’

The Maltese government is responding to a critical European human rights evaluation by vowing to soon propose new legislation to better protect journalists in the wake of the 2017 assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia

Forensic tents and a crime scene cordon have been erected next to 15 graves at St Andrew’s Church in Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire

But Rishi Sunak fights shy of expected solution to cash crisis - a pay-per-mile ‘road pricing’ system

Engineers are trying to repair broadband wires that were chewed by rats in Devon

“Early morning travel to school and work is likely to be disrupted for some within the warning area.”

Many UK adults said that they found it irritating being away from home more regularly

Almost half of adults polled overlooked important and genuine emails because they thought they scams

Brexit Party founder confronted with clip of him reciting hoax IRA message after he claimed Ireland was ‘governed by Europe’

Teenager seized and hauled into car after posting on social media about earning ‘reasonable amount of money’ trading cryptocurrency

British ambassador to Afghanistan told Foreign Office of Islamist militants’ growing presence seven weeks before fall of country’s capital

Action needed to stop demand outstripping supply, says Environment Agency

Shop manager says he was approached by detectives looking for footage of 25-year-old suspect

Government says homeowners will not be forced to take part in scheme

‘Early yesterday evening there was a row of houses and now there is a hole’