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The UK is in a "deeply uncomfortable" fiscal position ahead of next month's budget, experts have warned, after government borrowing costs soared to a near 30-year high amid growing pressure on global bond yields.

Several schools will close early on Friday "to ensure pupils' safety" as the first funeral for one of five young men killed in the A66 wrong-way crash is set to take place.

Forecasters have warned it is almost certain that this year's El Nino will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months and last until February next year.

Three directors of a tree-planting company have been jailed after running a £70m investment scam that duped thousands of people, including many pensioners, out of their savings.

The creative team behind a suicide prevention play has said the show is about "a cause bigger than any one of us", after an actor quit the show over the casting of Dame Maureen Lipman and their differing political views.

A woman who was fatally injured in a crash following a police pursuit has been named by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).

A former college lecturer caused the deaths of a husband and wife in a head-on crash while drink-driving following a Christmas party.

Water companies dumped sewage into England's waters for more than 43,000 hours during July and August, new data from campaigners Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) shows.

A car tax conviction against Lord Sadiq Khan has been withdrawn after the London mayor was targeted by a "scam".

A 34-year-old British woman has been stabbed to death in a hotel corridor in Portugal.