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The economic think tank said that the Home Office, HM Revenue and Customs and the Crown Prosecution Service could all bear the brunt of cuts.

The three were said to have travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group.

Boris Johnson said supply problems were ‘inevitable’ but the targets set for giving people jabs would be met.

Johnny Depp is making a bid in the Court of Appeal to overturn the outcome of a libel case against the publisher of The Sun last year.

The new figures come as all those in England aged 50 to 54 are being formally invited to get their Covid vaccine.

Nearly half of all adults in the UK are likely to have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.

Simon Byrne is set to meet the newly formed Stormont All-Party Group on Press Freedom and Media Sustainability on Friday.

A new contract will allow the Government to increase compliance checks on international travellers to England who must quarantine at home.

Nickolas Brooks told The Sun he drove across America to get to the Sussexes’ Californian mansion.

It would be ‘wrong and fundamentally unfair’ if judgments were subject to pressure or interference, Ofqual chair says.

The bodies were found at a house in Troon Avenue, Dundee.

Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Tees Valley are first on the list.

A previous attempt to fill the post following the retirement of David Sterling last year was not successful.

The EMA has concluded there is no overall increase in the risk of blood clots with the vaccine.

The Konik ponies roam free at the National Trust’s Wicken Fen nature reserve in Cambridgeshire.

Benjamin Field, 30, was found guilty of murdering Peter Farquhar, 69 after a trial in 2019.

Dr Chaand Nagpaul, BMA council chairman, said “forcing doctors to just ‘get back to normal’ without respite and support is not the way forward.”

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said the benefits of the vaccine outweighed any risks.

The broadcaster has been urged previously to ‘be closer to, and understand the perspectives of, the whole of the UK’.

The inquiry, beginning in September, will look at the construction of major hospitals in Glasgow and Edinburgh and how it impacted on patient safety.