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A further 1,610 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for COVID-19 - the highest number of UK deaths on a single day since the outbreak began.

The government is to invest £148m in tackling organised drug gangs and helping people break the cycle of addiction.

At least one in eight people in England had had COVID-19 by December last year, new survey data estimates.

Scotland's lockdown will be extended until at least the middle of February, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.

Boris Johnson does not take naps during the day and claims that the prime minister likes an afternoon snooze are "untrue", Number 10 has said.

A letter sent by the Duchess of Sussex to her estranged father "signalled the end of our relationship", Thomas Markle has told the High Court.

A leading Islamic scholar is calling on Muslims to ignore disinformation campaigns aimed at discouraging them from taking the COVID-19 vaccine. 

Police calls from inside the foyer of the Manchester Arena where the bomb went off have been played to the inquiry as officers identified the suicide bomber and requested as many ambulances as possible.

Gary Numan has told Sky News he received just £37 for a hit that had been streamed more than a million times, as an inquiry into the economics of digital music services continues.

The new coronavirus strain and a rapidly rising number of infections in prisons across England and Wales is a "public health emergency unfolding before our eyes," the shadow justice secretary has warned.