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The UK is temporarily suspending competition laws for the fuel industry to allow the sharing of information and to target petrol stations running dry around the UK as a result of driver shortages.

The transport secretary has said there would be no fuel queues if motorists filled up as normal as he accused a haulage group of triggering the "manufactured situation".

Exit polls in Germany suggest the two main rivals are closely tied in an election that will determine who will succeed Angela Merkel.

It has not been a great election for Angela Merkel's own party, the CDU.

Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes to escape rivers of lava cascading from La Palma's erupting volcano.

Angela Rayner has declined to apologise for calling the Conservatives "scum", saying she was using "street language" to convey her "anger and frustration" at the actions of the government.

A vote is taken place that will determine who succeeds German Chancellor Angela Merkel after her 16 years in power.

McFly's Tom Fletcher has tested positive for COVID-19, less than 24 hours after kicking off Strictly Come Dancing's live show.

The UK has recorded 32,417 further COVID-19 cases and 58 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, according to the latest government figures.

A future Labour government would scrap business rates as part of "the biggest overhaul of business taxation in a generation", shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to announce.