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Woman killed in crash days before Christmas with ‘blood and presents everywhere’

At least 12 police vehicles attended a serious collision in Merseyside earlier this evening as bystanders described seeing ‘blood everywhere’

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Author: Paige Ingram

Debate: More housebuilding or protect the green belt?

We spoke to Lizzie Bundred Woodward, a planning policy manager at the Campaign to Protect Rural England; and Sam Stafford, who’s Planning Director of the Home Builders Federation.

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Author: @cathynewman

Liberals would rather risk the death of a child like Sara Sharif than appear racist

To prevent further sad stories like hers, we must make it clear that the price of living in our country is abiding by our values

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Author: Allison Pearson

Teen jailed in Dubai over holiday romance begs ruler ‘please let me go home’

Marcus Fakana, 18, has been sentenced to a year in prison for consensual ‘holiday romance’

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Author: Josh Salisbury

Police searching for missing ex-England rugby star Tom Voyce find body in river

His Toyota Hilux was recovered downstream from Abberwick Ford on the River Aln outside Alnwick, Northumberland.

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Author: Tom Wilkinson

Labour to force councils to hit house building targets

More building will be allowed on the green belt under a major shake-up of the planning rules unveiled today by the Prime Minister.

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Author: @garygibbonc4

‘I will not touch bread if it is moist’: Kemi Badenoch sparks Westminster food fight

Starmer says he prefers a toastie over steak after Badenoch claims ‘lunch is for wimps’ and sandwiches are not ‘a real food’

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Author: Guardian staff reporter

Cabinet Office to cut 400 Civil Service jobs

Job slashes part of bid to remove ‘duplication and unnecessary bureaucracy’ within Civil Service following Starmer’s Plan for Change

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Author: Amy Gibbons

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Sara Sharif’s mother speaks out about abusive ex: ‘He tried to set me on fire’

Urfan Sharif and Beinash Batool convicted of murdering Sara Sharif, 10, after campaign of abuse

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Author: Tara Cobham

Why have changes been made to planning policy and what are they?

The Government said it will intervene if councils do not co-operate fully in a push to deliver 1.7 million new homes.

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Author: Jonathan Bunn

Public urged to get flu vaccine as hospitalisation rates rise steeply

Flu positivity jumps to 17.1% as vaccine take-up rates lag behind levels needed to protect the NHS and levels of norovirus highest in a decade for the time of year.

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Author: UK Health Security Agency

Baby girl airlifted to hospital after being ‘attacked by XL bully’

Two people have been arrested following the incident

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Author: Ellie Crabbe, PA

Starmer to unveil plan to ‘overhaul’ UK planning system

The UK Prime Minister will unveil plans later to “overhaul” the planning system in order to deliver 1.5 million homes over the next five years

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Author: Tommy Meskill

NHS warning of flu ‘tidal wave’ as hospitalisations jump by 70%

NHS leaders have warned that hospitals are bracing for a so-called ‘quad-demic’ of disease over the winter months.

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Author: John Ely

Sara Sharif’s father was accused of abuse before she was born and was ordered not to use ‘physical chastisement’

The father of murdered schoolgirl Sara Sharif was known to authorities over previous allegations of domestic and child abuse, false imprisonment and making threats to kill.

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Author: LBC

NHS warns flu ‘tidal wave’ means ‘you have one week’ after 70% surge

There has been a 70% surge in hospital beds taken up by flu patients in seven days

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Author: Neil Shaw

Parents who buried son, 3, in garden after ‘breathtaking cruelty’ back in court

Tai and Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah denied Abiyah Yasharahyalah adequate food in awful neglect described at Coventry Crown Court as “breathtaking arrogance and cruelty”

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Author: Bradley Jolly

Huge polar vortex on its way to the UK bringing with it 22cm of snow — here’s when it will hit

Weather charts have revealed an unforgiving polar vortex is on its way to the UK and will hit before Christmas bringing with it a mammoth amount of snow in some places of the country

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Author: Jamie Shapiro

Sara Sharif: ‘Madness’ to allow home schooling when abuse suspected

The children’s commissioner says a child should not be home-educated if concerns have been raised.

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Author: @BBCNews

Boy with rare syndrome miraculously defies doctors to walk mum down the aisle

Frankie Penfold, 10, was born with SUCLA-2 mitochondrial depletion syndrome, an inherited disorder which affects the early development of the brain leaving him mildly deaf, not being able to hold his head up, and not being able to walk

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Author: Hannah Van De Peer

Tear-jerking moment little boy defies doctors to walk mum down aisle

Frankie Penfold’s parents were told he would never be able to sit up, hold his head up, crawl or walk – and he was only expected to live into his teens

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Author: Paige Ingram, Hannah Van De Peer

Angela Rayner forces councils to surrender green belt with new housing targets

Labour prime minister Keir Starmer has promised to build 1.5 million new homes over five years to fix the housing crisis

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Author: Kate Devlin

Sara Sharif murder: Children at risk of abuse ‘must not be home educated’

Sara’s father Urfan Sharif and stepmother Beinash Batool were found guilty of murder while her uncle Faisal Malik was guilty of allowing the death.

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Author: Emily Pennink

Newspaper headlines: ‘Sara was failed’ and 10,000 civil service jobs to be axed

Convictions over the death of Sara Sharif and a new drive for government efficiency lead the papers.