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Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has announced he will not be standing at the next general election.

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Nadhim Zahawi says that the Conservatives were wrong to oust Boris Johnson two years ago.

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Maths teacher Rebecca Joynes has been found guilty of having sex with two teenage schoolboys and having a baby with one of them while on bail.

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Climate activists have glued themselves to an airport runway

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