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Conservatives had held seat with majority of more than 16,000

First quarter UK exports fell from £5.1bn in 2020 to £3.7bn in 2021, mainly due to new trade barriers with the EU

Expect poor visibility and wet roads, Met Office says

‘I mean, that is a political question,’ Sir Simon Stevens says

Refugee families who have moved to British cities under the UK’s resettlement scheme tell May Bulman how they have been able to rebuild their lives after fleeing war and persecution – and call on ministers to continue this legacy

Anger over top-down planning shake-up seen as key reason for overturning of 16,000 majority in true-blue Chesham and Amersham

Meeting will be ‘regarded as a clear and unambiguous sign of support by the dictatorship’

Ewan Fulton will serve 38 months in prison and has been added to the sexual offenders register for his role in the schoolgirl’s death

‘You cannot lead people who are not following you’: party turns against its leader over Irish language deal

Latest development in case means four people now facing charges over shooting of activist

Gary Allen is convicted of killing Samantha Class in 1997 and Alena Grlakova in 2018

Barry Coughlan was last seen leaving the Moonduster pub in Crosshaven

Ministers pledge to increase number of prosecutions but victims’ groups criticise missed opportunities in two-year review

‘We have to just be aware that Covid has not thrown its last surprise at us,’ says chief medical officer

Josephine Jump tells coroner the large mammal ‘didn’t like’ her eldest child, Peter

Judge calls for business owners and operators who violate new legal duty to be jailed

Exclusive: UNHCR, along with British charities and local authorities, warn resettlement to UK is at risk after ministers removed numerical target, saying numbers would instead be kept ‘under review’

Formal request comes just 13 days before end of ‘grace period’

Safety arrangements ‘should have prevented or minimised the devastating impact of the attack’, inquiry finds

Man concerned Salman Abedi would ‘let a bomb off’ raised alarm with security guard minutes before attack

Threat of no confidence vote in party leader Edwin Poots

Andrew Naughtie sees how two decades of anticipation played out in a pub garden in Edinburgh

Exclusive: Figures show more than 80,000 youngsters still waiting for EU settlement decision, prompting experts to warn of ‘disaster waiting to happen’ as many others feared yet to apply

Campaigners warn new pact opens door to ‘destructive mega farms’ and ‘biodiversity chaos’

A quarter of employees worked remotely in 2020, ONS figures show

Ministers warned against ‘legislative overkill’

‘If you went into any situation with fake bank statements ... you wouldn’t expect to get off scot-free’

Bailiffs were filmed breaking up the camp by throwing chairs and gazebos aside and dragging one protester from his tent

‘Furlough can be used to cover self-isolation, but HMT are reluctant to say this explicitly in the guidance’

Worst-case scenario would see daily deaths from virus similar to winter peak, warns Prof Neil Ferguson

Three teenagers were killed last week in London

Non-native predators eat honey bees, putting crop pollination at risk

Four out of five adults receive first dose in ‘incredible achievement’ for NHS

People living in affected local authorities, from Bedford to Blackpool and London to Liverpool, urged to take particular caution in coming weeks

Battery ingestion ‘a very clear’ public health concern, says coroner

The government’s new immigration policies make it harder for foreign nationals to fill hospitality roles

Costs of commuting a ‘hidden tax’, Autonomy says

Trade secretary Liz Truss ‘not up to the job’, Emily Thornberry tells Commons

‘By combining our new technology with advanced sequencing methods, we have delved deeper into the key changes that take place at this incredible stage of human development, when so many pregnancies unfortunately fail’

Northern Ireland’s biggest political parties appear set to agree on a new government after ending a standoff that threatened to scuttle the Protestant-Catholic power-sharing administration

Aid helps prevent diseases which ‘kill, blind, disfigure and maim, causing considerable and largely untold suffering to millions of people worldwide’

UK government breaks deadlock with promise to legislate on Irish language protections

Sir Lindsay Hoyle forced to correct numbers after embarrassing mix-up

Police urge fans to travel only if they have a match ticket

‘Past two years have been extremely damaging for our industry.’ says Scotch Whisky Association

A four-week-old kitten made a ‘miraculous’ recovery after becoming trapped on board a lorry transporting furniture to the UK from Romania for almost a week

Donna Patrick wanted to pay special tribute to daughter Elice on her 18th: ‘I’m glad you were the strongest sperm’

Police were pelted with large rocks as they responded to complaints of projectiles being catapulted at people and property in Stanwell Village, Surrey