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The whole of the UK - not just its armed forces - needs to step up to deter the threat posed by Russia of a wider war in Europe, Britain's military chief will say.

Specialist investigation teams for rape and sexual offences are to be created across England and Wales as the home secretary declares violence against women and girls a "national emergency".

A 17-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy have died after a car crashed into a tree near Rotherham.

A draft bill banning gay conversion practices, also known as gay conversion therapy, will be published before the end of the current parliamentary session next spring, the government has told Sky News. 

Acres of sweet, red strawberries are ripening in West Sussex this winter ready to be sold in UK supermarkets.

Virginia Giuffre's family have said they are "deeply disappointed" by the Metropolitan Police's decision not to investigate reports Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked an officer to help dig up dirt on her.

Paul Lim has become the oldest player ever to win a match at the PDC World Darts Championship.

The King will be "deeply touched" by the public’s reaction to the update on his cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace has said – as screening websites saw a surge in traffic.

The owners of the pub hailed as the birthplace of Black Sabbath have been told the use of an unauthorised car park on the pub site should be ceased.

Two staff networks from West Midlands Ambulance Service have come together to organise a donation of essential supplies for people in Jamaica after the devastating hurricane Melissa in October.

Mayor Richard Parker has secured another £36 million to invest in active travel projects to get more people cycling and walking across the region.

The Stourbridge Lion Lib Dem Team, are calling for Dudley Council to repaint the yellow hatch markings on a busy Wollaston junction.

A Walsall shop has been ordered to pay over £2,000 by Dudley Magistrates’ Court after selling a disposable vape to a person under the age of 18.

Families are invited to enjoy a magical, musical, festive performance of Sleeping Beauty at West Bromwich Town Hall from Friday 19 December through to Tuesday 23 December.

Dudley Council is partnering with community organisation Donate 1 Create 1 to provide Christmas dinner and gifts for care leavers.

Plans to bring Eton College to the borough will go ahead with the move hailed as a “big vote of confidence in Dudley” by the council’s leader.

Writing 26 books and a memoir in his lifetime, John le Carré is widely considered to be one of the best spy novelists of all time.

Peter Greene, the actor known for roles in Pulp Fiction and The Mask, has died aged 60.

Primal Scream have said a video containing alleged antisemitic imagery was a "piece of art" and was intended to "provoke debate, not hate".

Author Joanna Trollope has died aged 82, her family has said.

Glaswegian comic actor and impressionist Stanley Baxter has died at the age of 99.

Ruben Amorim says he is open to speaking to Kobbie Mainoo about his Manchester United future if the midfielder still wants to leave on loan in January.

Jamie Carragher believes Morgan Rogers could be the player that drives Aston Villa close to the Premier League title and thinks the 23-year-old has a chance of keeping Jude Bellingham out of the England side at the World Cup.

England showed their strength over a weakened Jamaican side beating them 81-30 to take a 2-0 series win at the Copper Box on Sunday.  

Pep Guardiola insisted Phil Foden was "not good" in Manchester City's 3-0 victory over Crystal Palace on Sunday despite scoring his sixth goal in four Premier League games.

A division of Blackrock, the world's biggest asset manager, is in talks to provide hundreds of millions of pounds of funding to a company which owns stakes in Six Nations Rugby and the women's professional tennis tour.

Next, the high street fashion giant, is plotting a swoop on Russell & Bromley, the 145 year-old shoe retailer.

The UK economy contracted by 0.1% in October, according to official figures.

The British economy has been slowing since the summer but the long wait for a late-November budget applied an extra touch to the brakes, according to the latest growth figures from the Office for National Statistics.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s holding company has axed a fifth of its workforce, even as he plots a high street restaurant comeback six years after his Jamie’s Italian chain collapsed into administration.

Specialist investigation teams for rape and sexual offences are to be created across England and Wales as the home secretary declares violence against women and girls a "national emergency".

Greens leader Zack Polanski has rejected claims his party would push for open borders on immigration, telling Sky News it is "not a pragmatic" solution for a world in "turmoil".

Migrant arrivals in small boats have resumed after 28 days without crossings.

Sir Keir Starmer has called on resident doctors to accept a deal to prevent "reckless" strikes next week, describing it as "beyond belief" that they would go ahead amid a "super flu" outbreak.

The end of a 28-day pause in small boat crossings has once again exposed the fragility of the migration debate.

Messages were sweeping across Sydney within minutes of the attack at Bondi Beach.

A bystander hailed a hero after he tackled and disarmed one of the gunmen in the Bondi Beach shooting is a shop owner.

At least 15 people, aged between 10 and 87 years old, have been killed in a terror attack on Bondi Beach.

A London-born rabbi and a 10-year-old girl are among 15 innocent people killed in the Bondi Beach terror attack.

At least 16 people have been killed, including a 10-year-old girl, after a mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney.

A senior Hamas commander who was one of the architects of the 7 October 2023 attacks on Israel has been killed in a strike on Gaza City, according to the country’s military.

Belarus has pardoned 123 prisoners, including a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a key opposition figure who challenged the presidential elections in 2020, in exchange for US sanctions relief.

Thailand has announced a curfew as fighting with Cambodia spread to more areas of a disputed border region.

Donald Trump has said the US "will retaliate" after three Americans were killed in a suspected Islamic State attack in Syria.

As Australia slides into its summer, it is leaving behind months marked by nationwide protests on one major issue - migration.

A raccoon that passed out drunk after running amok in a Virginia liquor store is suspected of two other "break-ins".

A Fabergé pendant has been recovered - after police spent six days closely monitoring the man accused of swallowing it.

An earthquake alert preparing people to "drop, cover, hold on" buzzed on phones in the US on Thursday - but turned out to be completely false.

A raccoon has gotten as drunk as a skunk.

It's a debate that's torn families apart for years - with selection boxes thrown in rage, and stony silences around the dinner table.