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Home Secretary James Cleverly will arrive in Rwanda on Tuesday (PA)

James Cleverly to seal new asylum treaty during visit to Rwanda

James Cleverly announced the plans to MPs (Yui Mok/PA)

Cleverly pledges ‘biggest ever reduction’ in net migration with new plans

Rishi Sunak (Yui Mok/PA)

Timeline of the Government’s Rwanda asylum deal

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (Justin Tallis/PA)

Why was Rwanda policy blocked by courts and what is Rishi Sunak’s Plan B?

The Sun Monument at Wentworth Castle Gardens, Yorkshire (Alun Bull/Historic England Archive/PA)

Monument honour for ‘one of the overlooked heroines in the history of medicine’

Shoppers on Oxford Street, central London, as the Christmas shopping period begins for retailers (James Manning/PA)

Cautious consumers delay Christmas spending

Vehicle crashes on rural roads are more deadly overall, research suggests (Alamy/PA)

Rural road crashes more likely to be deadly, report says

Oxfam is urging shoppers to buy second-hand presents this Christmas (Oxfam/PA)

Shoppers urged to buy second-hand festive clothes and gifts amid waste concerns

Manchester has been crowned as the most generous city in the UK for the third year in a row (Dave Thompson/PA)

Manchester crowned most generous city in UK for third year in GoFundMe report

The Green House in Tottenham, London (Kilian O’Sullivan/Riba/PA)

‘True London oasis’ wins House of the Year 2023

More than three quarters accessing help from food banks were women, a survey has found (Alamy/PA)

Three-quarters of people accessing food support are women, survey suggests

Pornography is too readily accessible to children online, Ofcom has warned (PA)

Ofcom sets out guidance on protecting children from online pornography

Members of the Aslef union on a picket line ahead of continuing strikes (Danny Lawson/PA)

Rail passengers facing disruption as driver strikes continue

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Self-managing pessaries cause fewer issues in women with pelvic organ prolapse

Home Secretary James Cleverly (Leon Neal/PA)

James Cleverly heading to Rwanda to seal new asylum treaty

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Shake-up of Government’s crisis response needed, Covid inquiry evidence suggests

The defeat came despite a last-ditch attempt by the Government to offer concessions in a bid to placate MPs (Simon Dawson/PA)

MPs defeat Government over moves to compensate infected blood scandal victims

Undated handout photo issued by the IDF of Binyamin Needham, a British teenager who has been killed in Gaza while fighting for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), the Israeli army said. Issue date: Monday December 4, 2023.

British teenager killed in Gaza while fighting for Israeli forces, says army

Sir Keir Starmer underlined the fundamental importance of the fiscal rules (Maja Smiejkowska/PA)

Labour’s £28bn green plans subject to fiscal rules, says Starmer

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Senior executives from five of the 11 water companies that deal with sewage took bonuses this year, while at the other six they declined after public outrage (Alamy/PA)

Ban water company chief executive bonuses, Labour to tell Commons

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Police officers pursue a deer down a hallway at Cedar Grove Elementary School in Toms River, New Jersey (Toms River Police Department via AP)

Deer’s escape after breaking into US school captured on police bodycams

Justice minister Edward Argar said the Government would amend the Victims and Prisoners Bill in the Lords (PA)

Minister bids to placate Tory rebels over compensation for infected blood victims

Actor Jonathan Majors arrives at court in New York (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Jonathan Majors assault trial starts with competing versions of confrontation

James Cleverly said UK citizens must be earning at least £38,700 to sponsor foreign family members wishing to gain a visa (Alamy/PA)

Britons earning under £38,700 face being unable live with foreign spouses in UK

Manuel Rocha when he was US ambassador to Bolivia (State Department via AP)

Former career US diplomat charged with secretly spying for Cuba for decades

Brianna Ghey was found with fatal wounds on a path in Culcheth Linear Park, near Warrington on February 11 (Handout/PA)

‘I saw her stabbing Brianna’, boy tells court

James Smith, 84, was killed in an explosion at an Edinburgh property (Police Scotland/PA)

Family pays tribute to man, 84, killed in Edinburgh explosion

Jeremy Corbyn (Jordan Pettitt/PA)

Jeremy Corbyn accuses Israel of ‘cleansing entire population of Gaza’

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Peter Norgrove, who has admitted the murder of Sharon Gordon (West Midlands Police/PA)

Builder admits murdering woman after working on extension at her home

Net migration in 2022 reached a record-high of 725,000 (Rick Findler/PA)

Key questions around Cleverly’s immigration shake-up

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Parts of the country can expect severe weather (PA)

Nearly 30 flood warnings issued as UK faces heavy rain but snow risk lessens

Una Burns (left), manager of Charlie’s Bar Enniskillen and Sarah Thompson (right), founder of embroidery company Ted & Stitch with Siobhan Casey from Age NI (Fiona Brown Communications/PA)

Enniskillen bar behind viral Christmas ad launches clothing to tackle loneliness

Communities Secretary Michael Gove answered a question in the Commons from Labour MP Chi Onwurah (Brian Lawless/PA)

Cash-strapped councils will see no extra funding from Labour, Gove claims

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Staff at Oasis Academy, on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, had been on strike for three days demanding a zero-tolerance approach to bad behaviour after months of concerns about safety (PA)

Strikes halted at school as deal reached over ‘unacceptable’ pupil behaviour

Samantha Drummonds was killed during the alleged attack (Metropolitan Police/PA)

Knifeman told mother ‘I’m gonna make a sacrifice’ after bloodbath, court told

French police investigating a fatal attack near the Eiffel Tower at the weekend are looking into the mental health of the suspect (Christophe Ena/AP)

French investigators probe mental health of Paris attacks suspect

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Speaker of The House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Hannah McKay/PA)

Speaker absent from Commons after positive Covid test

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Lloyds seized the newspaper group during the summer (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Barclay family repays £1.2bn debt to Lloyds amid potential sale of Telegraph

Ryan Watson, 24, who died on May 6 last year (Cheshire Police/PA)

Woman ‘lost her temper’ and ran over boyfriend, murder trial is told

The China Southern cargo plane carrying Giant pandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian takes off from Edinburgh Airport (Jane Barlow/PA)

Giant pandas flying back to China after 12 years in Edinburgh

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UUP leader Doug Beattie speaks to the media (Liam McBurney/PA)

Any changes to Stormont Executive ‘must be put to the people’ – Beattie

At least 47 people have been killed and 85 others injured amid heavy flooding and landslides in northern Tanzania (AP)

At least 47 dead and 85 injured after heavy rain and landslides in Tanzania

An excavator at a quarry in Co Tyrone during a search for Charlotte Murray (PA)

Man who murdered missing Co Tyrone woman has appeal dismissed

Around half of renters and disabled adults in the UK do not feel able to save any money in the year ahead, according to ONS analysis (PA)

Renters and disabled adults more likely to face cost-of-living squeeze – ONS

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Holly’s family have spoken out about the need for blood donors (Handout/PA)

Grieving parents press awareness of importance of blood donation

Indonesian authorities halted the search for 12 climbers on Monday after the Mount Marapi volcano erupted again (Ardhy Fernando/AP)

Indonesia’s Marapi volcano erupts for second day as 12 climbers remain missing

Nearly half of all scams reported to Nationwide during the summer were purchase scams (Alamy/PA)

Shoppers being duped by fake sellers all year round, Nationwide warns

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International development minister Andrew Mitchell will announce the £100m of funding at Cop28 (James Manning/PA)

Minister to announce £100m for vulnerable climate-hit nations at Cop28

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The Israeli military has widened its ground offensive and bombarded targets across the Gaza Strip (Hatem Ali/AP)

Israel orders mass evacuations as it widens offensive across Gaza Strip

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Conor Murphy, four, from Banbridge, Co Down with his parents Finbar and Jolene (Jolene Murphy/PA)

Four-year-old with sight loss enjoys magic of first Santa letter

Indian authorities have issued warnings over tropical storm Michuang, which is likely to hit the southern coast on Tuesday (AP)

Heavy rains lash south and east India coasts as they brace for powerful storm

Spotify is to cut around 1,500 jobs (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Spotify to axe 1,500 jobs to cut costs

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The Culture Secretary said a £15 rise in the licence fee would be ‘high’ (Victoria Jones/PA)

Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer denies Government ‘ripping up’ licence fee deal

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Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow, who moved to Canada to pursue further studies, has said she will not return to the city to meet her bail conditions (Vincent Yu/AP)

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow jumps bail