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The chancellor has announced a series of spending pledges ahead of the autumn budget this week, which include £5bn for health research and innovation and £3bn for education.

Coronavirus travel rules have been relaxed for those returning to England, allowing fully vaccinated holidaymakers to take cheaper lateral flow tests instead of PCRs.

Holidays have been made a fair bit cheaper just in time for half-term, with PCR tests scrapped for fully vaccinated passengers arriving in England.

Police are searching for two suspects after a man found a death threat scrawled in toothpaste on his bathroom mirror.

Boris Johnson has repeated his call for those eligible to get their COVID-19 booster jabs over the coming weeks, insisting vaccines are the UK's "way through" the pandemic.

A shortage of bus drivers in the UK is being caused by better pay being offered to drive HGVs, according to a union.

When Black History Walks decided to take its tour of London to the Thames in the form of a cruise, the idea was meant to be a one-off to help raise money for heritage plaques celebrating the lives of key figures in black history.

The removal of dangerous cladding from high-risk buildings is unlikely to be complete until seven-and-a-half years after the Grenfell Tower tragedy, government data suggests.

A 14-year-old boy is among four people arrested on suspicion of murder following a triple stabbing sparked by a "verbal dispute".

The nation is "dilly-dallying into lockdown" and action should be taken now to avoid much tougher COVID restrictions later, a government scientific adviser has warned.