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Florida is bracing for the landfall of the monster Hurricane Milton, as officials have pleaded with residents to follow evacuation orders and get out. 

The departure of Sue Gray, as Sir Keir Starmer's most senior adviser in Number 10, has shone a spotlight on the role of special advisers in government. 

More than 600 child protection investigations a day are now carried out by social care services - a record high, the latest figures show. 

A Dutch museum has recovered a piece of art after a staff member accidentally threw it in the bin, thinking it was rubbish.  

Tom Tugendhat has been knocked out of the Tory leadership race after receiving the least votes from MPs. 

An airline has apologised after a mature-rated film was played to all passengers on a flight – including families with young children. 

Detectives have reopened the investigation into the murder of a man who was shot multiple times in his flat in Hampshire 35 years ago. 

The prisons system was "teetering on the edge of disaster" after being run "so hot for so long" by the previous government, prisons minister Lord Timpson has said, while speaking…

Sir Keir Starmer will attend a meeting with US President Joe Biden and the French and German leaders in Berlin this weekend. 

A former Treasury minister will on Wednesday urge more government support for "credible" university spinout ventures as a glut of new vehicles try to raise hundreds of millions of pounds…