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A drought has been declared in the West and East Midlands, says the Environment Agency (EA).

A British tourist has been missing for a week after going for a hike in the Italian Alps.

Views are being sought for a new law that would create a register for convicted domestic abusers.

The budget jeweller and fashion accessories chain Claire's has hired advisers to find a buyer for its British operations as it explores options – including bankruptcy – for its US-based business.

BBC director-general Tim Davie has said MasterChef can survive its current scandal as it is "much bigger than individuals" - but the corporation must "make sure we're in the right place in terms of the culture of the show".

The iconic Sycamore Gap tree "can never be replaced" but its stump is showing signs of life, the National Trust has said, as the two men who felled it face sentencing.

Are Rachel Reeves's fiscal rules quite as iron clad as she insists?

An inquiry into the case of a hospital worker who sexually abused dozens of corpses has concluded that "offences such as those committed by David Fuller could happen again".

Crisis-hit Thames Water has reported a £1.65bn annual loss, rising debts, and warned that it will take "at least a decade" to turn around its fortunes if it swerves the threat of nationalisation.

The taxpayer is to help drive the switch to non-polluting vehicles through a new grant of up to £3,750, but some of the cheapest electric cars are to be excluded.

Unreleased Beyonce music - along with footage and show plans - has been stolen from a car in Atlanta, police say.

A jury will decide whether Tesla is partly to blame for the death of a young woman who was hit by an electric car on Autopilot.

A British runner, believed to be the oldest in the world to complete a marathon, has died in a road accident aged 114.

A crisis in early years education has emerged with the attainment gap between students widening since the pandemic, a report has revealed.

Several homes had to be evacuated in east London after a wildfire broke out on Monday.

An X account for the Sesame Street character Elmo has been targeted by an unknown hacker who posted antisemitic and racist messages.

The parents of a woman who died after her blood clot was misdiagnosed by someone who she thought was a doctor have called a government-ordered review "a missed opportunity".

MasterChef presenter John Torode will no longer work on the show after an allegation he used an "extremely offensive racist term" was upheld in a report, the BBC has said.

Reform UK is on the march.

Steve's morning starts lying still in the clanging magnet of an MRI machine as his body is slowly scanned from neck to knee in intimate detail.