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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 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.

The search for the next James Bond is under way, Amazon MGM Studios has revealed, with the casting process to replace Daniel Craig having "just begun". 

A man in his 60s is in a critical condition after being stabbed on a public footpath through Stafford Castle golf course path on Thursday. 

The Post Office awarded a £2.4m contract to a crisis PR company as it fights legal claims by victims of the Horizon IT scandal.