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Close contacts of people linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak in Reading are being offered antibiotics as a precaution.

Two pupils from different schools are being treated for meningitis, health authorities have said, following the death of a student.

A man accused of stabbing two Jewish men in Golders Green and his friend earlier that same day will face trial next year.

A Nazi-obsessed teenager who told a man to kill all Jews and Muslims and launched a far-right axe attack on a stranger outside a barber's shop has been jailed for more than 15 years.

The old saying "prevention is better than cure" couldn't be more apt when it comes to huge illegal waste dumps – because, quite frankly, finding a cure is proving near impossible. 

A teenage e-bike rider has been sentenced to six years and nine months in prison for killing a great-grandmother in a crash.

The benchmark UK borrowing cost has hit a fresh financial crash-era high as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faces a potential leadership challenge from Manchester mayor Andy Burnham.

An inmate accused of murdering paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins told prison officers "people die every day" - and that he wanted to play Sudoku - in the aftermath of the attack.