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Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders star Sam Neill has died aged 78.

A cross-party group of MPs has told prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham he should allow councils to increase council tax by as much as they want.

Two asylum seekers have been given lengthy prison sentences for repeatedly raping a woman on Brighton beach, while a third who filmed the attack has also been jailed.

Labour MPs are demanding Andy Burnham sets a target of creating one million jobs in production over the next decade as part of a reindustrialisation strategy.

Thames Water has warned funding is due to dry up by November and further money will be dependent on the views of incoming PM Andy Burnham, as its major lenders seek to shore up its financial future.

Japanese authorities have captured a bear following a multi-day search that saw nearly 100 schools close.

The UK government is working on a ban on imports and exports to illegal Israeli settlements, the trade minister confirmed on Wednesday morning.

Two more British nationals are confirmed dead after wildfires in southern Spain.

Police Scotland is carrying out "additional enquiries" after a university employee posted online that they hoped Ann Widdecombe suffered "an extremely painful death".

Senators have demanded the US military urgently reveals the findings of its probe into a deadly missile strike on an Iranian school.

The number of confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has reached 2,011, with 754 deaths, according to government data.

Sixteen and 17-year-olds will face an overnight social media curfew and the disabling of addictive features under government plans – but critics say it won't achieve anything as the settings can be turned off.

The UK is experiencing a period of "historic and unprecedented change" to its climate, and extreme conditions that have caused recent heatwaves are here to stay, says a new report.

A "shameless" fraudster who stole £300,000 from a vulnerable pensioner has been arrested after Sky News tracked her down to Tenerife.

A British man jailed in Iran along with his wife has been handed an additional two-year prison sentence, according to the couple's family. 

The Gloucestershire cheese rolling contest's most successful ever competitor has been beaten by a German YouTuber. 

At least 19 wildfires are burning across the UK as a third heatwave in as many months continues - causing a phenomonon experts have previously called a "firewave".

The written statement Scotland's former first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, gave to police investigating the SNP’s finances will not be released, her lawyer has said.

The US has returned tens of billions of dollars raised through tariffs after they were ruled illegal by the Supreme Court.

Former Radio 2 presenter Scott Mills was the BBC's highest earner until he was sacked in March, latest figures reveal.