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The awards were organised by Cats Protection to recognise pets who have enriched their owners’ lives during lockdown.

It comes after several MSPs resigned from the Scottish Labour front bench.

Extra funding should be targeted at more deprived schools to address the ‘likely widening of educational inequalities’, the IFS said.

The US presidential election frontrunner has warned the 1998 Good Friday peace deal cannot become a ‘casualty’ of Brexit.

The retail group has dived to a £653 million loss as it looks to drive its turnaround with a new strategy it will reveal next month.

The initiative alerts holidaymakers planning trips to the European Union that new rules come into force on January 1.

The South Ayrshire ticket-holder collected the top prize for the March 17 draw.

Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taf now have rates above 100 cases per 100,000 people.

Environment Agency figures show no monitored surface water body in England has a clean bill of health.

Liam Curry and Chloe Rutherford were compared to Romeo and Juliet.

Labour’s Jeff Smith raised the issue with Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg.

The First Minister said she has been give assurances by Matt Hancock that testing will not be constrained despite capacity problems.

The bronze memorial to the 17th century slave merchant was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter protest.

The business has accessed furlough cash, and Bank of England support, and plans to cut thousands of jobs

The Commons Leader was responding after a Tory MP criticised ‘outrageous and shameful’ salaries for some of the corporation’s top stars.

The Ministry of Justice published figures on Thursday.

The ex-prime minister indicated he would have attended more top level meetings in the run-up to the coronavirus outbreak than Boris Johnson did.

But the researchers say some changes are occurring and these are useful to follow the spread of virus.

Bernard ‘Bunny’ Ennis took part in the 12km challenge for the Forgot You Not campaign

Boris Johnson admitted to MPs on Wednesday that there is not enough capacity in the testing system