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New lockdown rules for Liverpool, Warrington, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough
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Turkey and Poland added to England's travel quarantine list
Spread of Covid-19 in England 'may be slowing'
EU chief announces start of legal action against UK over Brexit bill changes
Jeremy Corbyn apologises for 'breaking rule of six' at dinner party
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Coronavirus: Six new areas added to England's watchlist
Coronavirus: Another 6,914 cases and 59 deaths recorded in UK
Coronavirus: Pandemic to cause 'greatest surge in child marriages in 25 years', charity
warns
Harry and Meghan call for end to 'structural racism in UK' as prince reveals his
'awakening' since marriage
Coronavirus: Weekly COVID-19 cases up 61% in England, Test and Trace figures show
Coronavirus: Tougher rules for Liverpool, Warrington, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough
- but one mayor vows to defy them
Police launch double murder inquiry after two men found shot dead in car in Dudley
Leave.EU apologises to Labour MP Naz Shah for calling her 'grooming gang apologist'
Brexit: EU says it will start legal action over Boris Johnson's controversial Internal
Market Bill
US election 2020: Debate rules to change after chaotic Trump-Biden exchange
Alexei Navalny says he believes Vladimir Putin was behind novichok poisoning
Coronavirus: Growth in infections may be slowing, largest COVID-19 study in England
suggests
Coronavirus: Spain orders Madrid lockdown as COVID-19 cases soar
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson's dad 'extremely sorry' after being caught with no face mask
Coronavirus: Govt bracing for four million unemployed as COVID crisis accelerates
Armed forces must 'fundamentally change' to counter new threats, says chief of defence
staff
Coronavirus: Some users of NHS tracing app incorrectly given COVID-19 exposure alerts
Plastic straws, cotton buds and stirrers banned in England from today
Coronavirus: Warning of 'uptick' in intensive care admissions as PM says follow rules
to avoid new lockdown
Bristol bus boycott: Meet the faces behind the UK's own 1963 civil rights movement
Coronavirus: MPs overwhelmingly approve renewal of emergency COVID powers
Coronavirus: UK records another 7,108 COVID-19 cases and 71 deaths
Manchester Arena inquiry: Fire service 'took more than two hours' to attend scene of
bombing
Timothy Ray Brown: World's first patient cured of HIV dies from cancer
Coronavirus: MPs to get vote 'wherever possible' before new COVID-19 rules come into force
Coronavirus: 400 travellers escaped fines for not quarantining
Democratic Republic of Congo: More than 50 women allege abuse by Ebola aid workers
Pregnant policewoman 'kicked and punched by gang' after officer husband stabbed
Coronavirus: At least 200 students in 'blatant breach' of lockdown with late-night rave
at Coventry University
Coronavirus: Royal Glamorgan Hospital reports major COVID-19 outbreak with 82 COVID-19
cases
US presidential debate: 'A wild ride' for Pennsylvania viewers
US presidential debate: Trump v Biden - the seven defining moments
US presidential debate: Biden and Trump clash on coronavirus and race
Priti Patel 'considered sending asylum seekers to isolated Atlantic islands'
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson bids to head off Conservative rebellion over COVID-19 rules
Coronavirus: One million breast screenings missed because of pandemic
Brexit: MPs approve controversial UK Internal Market Bill
Manchester Arena bombings: Attackers 'did not act alone', inquiry hears
Coronavirus: Extra restrictions for more than 500,000 people as fresh lockdowns
announced in Wales
Jet pack paramedic suit tested in the Lake District that can get to patients in minutes
Nearly 300 fugitives wanted for crimes across Europe arrested in lockdown
Matt Ratana shooting: Police search derelict buildings and 30 acres of land
Coronavirus: Biggest ever rise in new cases recorded in the UK
Malta backs down on demand that shark tooth given to Prince George by David
Attenborough is returned
Coronavirus: UK government spent £569 million on ventilators for the NHS but many
haven't been used
Charlie Hebdo: Terror suspect 'wanted to burn down magazine's office - but did not know
it had moved'
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson apologises for 'misspeaking' about new rules
Duchess of Cambridge wears Scout scarf and toasts marshmallows as she takes on new role
Bloody Sunday: Decision not to prosecute 15 former soldiers upheld
Coronavirus: 'Stark' warning of care workers shortage as UK enters second wave
Coronavirus: Restaurants, pubs and bars in Northern Ireland to face an 11pm curfew
Coronavirus deaths increase for second consecutive week in England and Wales
Coronavirus: Jobs that 'don't fit' with COVID-19 may take a 'long time to come back'
Coronavirus: 'Unenforceable' rules to trigger hospitality sector collapse, lockdown
city leaders warn
Malta wants Prince George to return giant shark tooth given to him by David Attenborough
Coronavirus: WHO to roll out 120 million rapid COVID-19 tests to poorer countries
Breonna Taylor: Only officer charged over medic's death pleads not guilty
Coronavirus: Tory MPs threaten restrictions rebellion as Johnson promises post-COVID
jobs revolution
Coronavirus: Government accused of trying to 'terrify' public over COVID-19
Coronavirus: Care leavers are facing 'digital poverty' with no online access to
education or work, campaigners say.
Coronavirus: 'Children under 12 should be exempt from the rule of six', report says
Coronavirus: Household mixing in any setting made illegal in North East as cases
continue to rise 'sharply'
Matt Ratana shooting: Police officer's partner pays tribute to her 'gentle giant' with
'infectious smile'
Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict: Second day of clashes as dozens killed in fiercest
violence since 1990s
Coronavirus: How testing is going in other European countries
Coronavirus: Leeds farm owner faces £10,000 fine after 'hundreds' gather for marquee
wedding
Manchester Arena bombing inquiry: Victims' families have 'grave misgivings' over MI5
secrecy
Coronavirus: Children half as likely to catch COVID-19 than adults, analysis suggests
Coronavirus: Five new COVID-19 laws and fines that government slipped out
Claudia Webbe: Leicester East MP charged with harassment against woman
Coronavirus: Older people excluded from most vaccine and treatment trials, study warns
Yemen: Houthi rebels 'shelled prison killing six women and baby' in possible war crime
Alexei Navalny visited by Angela Merkel in Berlin hospital
Coronavirus: Parliament U-turns on exempting own bars from 10pm curfew
Coronavirus: Labour's Kate Green apologises after urging activists not to 'let a good
crisis go to waste'
Coronavirus: More social restrictions could be imposed, minister suggests
Coronavirus: Manchester man first in UK to be given arthritis drug in trial to treat
COVID-19
Boris Johnson pledges to protect 30% of UK's countryside by 2030
Coronavirus: Spot checks and tip-offs as police target lockdown rule breakers
Joe Montana: Ex-NFL star and wife grab grandchild from arms of intruder
Victims of Yemen's proxy war are 'screaming in pain, but no one is hearing'
Donald Trump 'paid no income tax at all' for 10 of the 15 years before his presidency
Government tells English schools not to use anti-capitalist material for teaching
Beluga whales enjoy new freedom after years of captivity - but there are still hurdles
Switzerland voters overwhelmingly reject bid to limit EU immigration
Madrid zookeeper seriously injured after being attacked by gorilla
Matt Ratana shooting: Man suspected of killing police officer in custody suite is named
Liberal Democrat conference: Sir Ed Davey accuses Boris Johnson of 'failing' country in
'one of our darkest hours'
Coronavirus: New UK COVID-19 cases fall for second day in a row
Matt Ratana shooting: Man arrested on suspicion of supplying firearm over police
officer's death
Coronavirus: Neath Port Talbot, Vale of Glamorgan and Torfaen to be put into local
lockdown in Wales
Yemen: Evidence of potential war crime by Saudi coalition
Government wants 'strong' BBC chair - amid reports Boris Johnson's old boss Charles
Moore will get role
Coronavirus: 'Follow the rules if you want students home for Christmas', says culture
secretary
Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict: Putin calls for end to fighting as civilians killed in
Nagorno-Karabakh clashes
Violence against police 'getting worse', federation warns - as officers killed on duty
are honoured
Coronavirus: Half a million sharks 'could be killed for vaccine', experts warn
Brain-eating microbe warning for tap water in Texas city
Coronavirus deaths: One million people have now died globally
Teenager arrested after 'assault on officer' in Birmingham as police stop illegal
gatherings
Coronavirus: Students must be allowed to return home to their families at Christmas
, insists Labour
Coronavirus: Why are weddings being restricted when any number of people can go to the
pub?
Belarus protests: Great-grandmother forcibly arrested as women take to streets to
demand Lukashenko’s removal
Prince George thrilled with dinosaur-era gift from Sir David Attenborough
Amy Coney Barrett announced by Donald Trump to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Supreme
Court
Mexican police and soldiers wanted over unsolved disappearance of 43 students
Croydon police shooting: CCTV 'shows events' of fatal shooting of police officer Matt
Ratana by handcuffed suspect
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson urges world to unite against COVID-19 and stop comparing
death rates
Six-year-old girl dies 'after being hit by falling tree' at school in Newcastle
Amy Coney Barrett: Why Trump's likely Supreme Court pick stirs fears he is planning an
assault on democracy
Coronavirus: London anti-lockdown protests see 16 arrests as police left in hospital
after clashes
Coronavirus: Another 6,042 COVID-19 cases in UK - first drop after five straight days
of rises
Hereford: Woman arrested on suspicion of murder after 69-year-old woman stabbed to death
Coronavirus: NHS tracing app does not work with more than 60,000 daily tests in England
Witness appeal after attempted abduction of two girls in Bolton
Coronavirus: MPs to vote on 'rule of six' before government imposes more COVID
restrictions
Coronavirus: Two million global deaths 'not impossible' even with vaccine, warns WHO
Canadian man who claimed to be IS killer charged with lying about terrorism
COVID-19 curfew land: Where late-night chicken wings result in a police warning
Coronavirus: Even scientists can't agree on how society should fight COVID-19
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