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The Office for National Statistics said retail sales volumes fell 3.8% last month compared with October.

The Scottish Government said the remaining birds at the premises in Orkney have been humanely culled.

More than two-thirds of England’s population will be living under Tier 3 measures from Saturday as the Government tries to stem rising infections.

The man was convicted of murdering the Essex woman by strangling her in a hotel in Auckland after meeting her via Tinder.

Many ‘recovered’ patients still experience debilitating symptoms for weeks and months afterwards.

Saturn and Jupiter will come the closest they have done since the seventeenth century and create a “spectacular event in the sky”.

Colin Fisher pleaded guilty to the attempted smuggling of equipment that could have been used in Iran’s oilfields.

The pandemic, Brexit and Liz Truss feature prominently on the nation’s front pages on Friday.

Dame Donna Kinnair said ministers should give ‘fresh and more detailed’ advice to the public with a week to go until Christmas.

The Prime Minister said the negotiations were now in a ‘serious situation’ – with just a fortnight until the end of the transition period.

On Wednesday, the Government allocated the Port of Dover £33,000 from the Port Infrastructure Fund, after it requested £33 million.

The clock is ticking towards the deadline for agreement on a trade deal.

Negotiations between the UK and EU will continue on Friday but time is running out to reach a deal.

He was the first actor to play Boba Fett.

Transport could be disrupted due to water on roads.

The deputy First Minister said without the intervention the health service would be ‘completely crushed’ by January.

GMP must develop an improvement plan to ‘address the specific causes of concern’, inspectors said.

Professor Chris Whitty’s Annual Report was published on Friday.

Negotiations between the UK and EU will continue on Friday.

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has spotted the shape of an angel and a heart on our neighbouring planet.