Bananas sprout in Dorset garden amid summer of scorching heatwaves

Farage set for Count Binface showdown in Clacton by-election

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Skywatchers wowed as rare solar eclipse blots out most of the sun

Ex-Myanmar ambassador to UK on trial for trespassing in diplomatic residence

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Bus driver shot dead outside London pub named by police

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Police link Welsh valleys death to biker gang rivalry

Sex offenders released on bail ‘day in, day out’ claims police chief

Double murderer and rapist Simon Levy handed whole-life tariff

Teenage boys arrested after police officer injured by car

Bridget Phillipson condemns Richard Tice’s ‘chilling attempt to silence free press’