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Services that are running will start later and finish much earlier than usual (Danny Lawson/PA)

Fresh disruption for rail travellers as train drivers strike again

Passengers are being urged to avoid one of the UK’s busiest rail routes next week during emergency work to repair a landslip (Network Rail/PA)

Emergency landslip repair work to disrupt train journeys on major route

Air strikes have resumed in Gaza (Adel Hana/AP)

Israeli jets hit Gaza targets after week-long truce expires

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The Prince and Princess of Wales at the Royal Variety Performance at the Royal Albert Hall (Aaron Chown, PA)

Prince and Princess of Wales appear ‘relaxed’ at Royal Variety Performance

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Police attempt to put out flares that have been thrown towards them outside the stadium before the UEFA Europa Conference League Group E match at Villa Park, Birmingham (David Davies/PA)

Four police officers injured in ‘disgusting scenes’ at Aston Villa match

A helicopter carrying Israeli hostages released by Hamas lands at the Sheba Medical Centre in Ramat Gan, Israel (Leo Correa/ AP)

Israel resumes strikes in Gaza Strip as truce with Hamas expires

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the roof of the British Embassy in Dubai before attending the Cop28 summit (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

UK can ‘stand tall’ at Cop28 summit, Sunak says

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Mia Schem was released after 55 days in captivity in Gaza (AP)

Israeli military confirms release of six more hostages in Gaza Strip

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What the papers say (PA)

What the papers say – December 1

The King and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are attending the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai (Daniel Leal/PA)

King and Sunak to attend Cop28 as leaders assess bids to tackle climate change

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Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Stephen Watson replaced Ian Hopkins in May 2021 (James Speakman/PA)

Significant improvements by Greater Manchester Police, inspection finds

Air strikes have resumed in Gaza (Adel Hana/AP)

Israeli jets hit Gaza targets after week-long truce expires

King Charles at the Business and Philanthropy Climate Forum reception in Dubai on Thursday (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Charles tells Cop28: Countries are ‘dreadfully far off’ achieving climate goals

UK house prices rose for the third month in a row in November, according to Nationwide (Yui Mok/PA)

UK house prices inch higher but ‘rapid rebound’ in property market unlikely

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A woman with her dog in snow in Swarland, Northumberland (Owen Humphreys/PA)

Wintry showers and sub-zero temperatures set to continue across UK

A Royal Mail Christmas postbox on Oxford Street (Yui Mok/PA)

Singing postboxes to bring festive cheer in run-up to Christmas

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Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy in October (Jonathan Brady/PA)

European Union will be Labour’s first foreign policy priority, vows David Lammy

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Councils and businesses are ‘crying out’ for clarification on waste reforms, MPs said (Jonathan Pow/PA)

Government delays mean more plastic waste will go to landfill, say MPs

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is calling for humanitarian pauses in Gaza fighting (PA)

Sunak to seek ‘sustained humanitarian pauses’ in Gaza after fighting resumes

The review will examine how viewing porn impacts users of all ages (Yui Mok/PA)

Review set to scrutinise AI’s impact on porn industry

The Rwanda plan is a key plank of Rishi Sunak’s pledge to stop small boat crossings of the English Channel (PA)

Sunak’s patience ‘worn thin’ by Rwanda plan delays

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The King has called for Cop28 to produce real action to tackle climate change (Andrew Matthews/PA)

King expected to call in opening speech for Cop28 to be ‘critical turning point’

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The punishment for those caught was toughened in 2017, meaning offenders now face six penalty points and a £200 fine (Alamy/PA)

Vast majority of drivers often see illegal phone use on the road, poll suggests

Nearly a fifth of households in Britain owe money after missing a repayment on credit or a loan, according to new research (Rui Vieira/PA)

More households turning to debt to pay for essentials, survey shows

viruses spread more easily at Christmas, the NHS says (Peter Byrne/PA)

NHS urges people to book ‘lifesaving’ Covid and flu vaccines before Christmas

Murder victim Mark Lovell (PSNI/PA)

CCTV footage of murder victim Mark Lovell’s last movements released

(Joe Giddens/PA)

Researchers study skeletons for stories of ‘ordinary folk’ in medieval Cambridge

Ellie Taylor has announced the ‘surprise early arrival’ of her child (Ian West/PA)

Ellie Taylor announces arrival of baby as she misses Royal Variety Performance

Charlotte with the choir (James Veysey/Shutterstock)

Charlotte Church ‘couldn’t have been prouder’ of young carers’ choir performance

The Queen attended the Rifles Awards Dinner at the Guildhall (Victoria Jones/PA)

The Queen hails key infantry regiment at awards dinner

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Hall and Oates are on opposite sides in a legal battle (AP)

Hall and Oates row: Judge extends pause on Oates’ sale of stake in business

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Shane MacGowan has died aged 65 (Niall Carson/PA)

Imelda May thanks the late Shane MacGowan for sharing his ‘glorious talents’

Police attempt to put out flares that have thrown towards them outside the stadium before the Uefa Europa Conference League Group E match at Villa Park, Birmingham (David Davies/PA).

Three police officers injured ahead of Aston Villa match with Legia Warsaw

Stanley in the Falkland Islands (Alamy/PA)

Minister dubs Falklands ‘an important part of the British family’ ahead of visit

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The Prince and Princess of Wales arrive for the Royal Variety Performance at the Royal Albert Hall (Aaron Chown/PA)

William and Kate in good spirits as they arrive for Royal Variety Performance

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Shane McGowan has died aged 65 (Andy Butterton/PA)

Bookies slash odds of Pogues’ Christmas number one after Shane MacGowan’s death

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The move was announced at Opec’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria (AP)

Saudi Arabia extends cut in oil it sends to world in bid to boost prices

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College staff have been offered a ‘final’ pay increase of £5000 over three years in a bid to bring a longstanding dispute to a close (Jane Barlow/PA)

‘Final’ pay offer put to college staff in long-running dispute

An artist’s impression of the LHS 3154b planet and its host star (Penn State University)

Planet too big for its sun ‘is challenging the idea of how solar systems form’

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Phillip Hancock shot two men dead in 2001 (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP)

Man executed in Oklahoma over double killing in 2001

Shane MacGowan (PA)

Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan remembered as a ‘lyrical genius’

Shane MacGowan of The Pogues, performing at the St Patrick’s Day concert in Belfast city centre (PauL Faith/PA)

In Pictures: Turbulent troubadour Shane MacGowan reinvented Irish music

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Researchers have published the first tranche of findings of the Children of the 2020s study (PA)

One in 14 babies ‘raised by fathers’ – study

RTE cameraman (Alamy/PA)

Fair City and other programmes to be hit by 10m euro cuts at RTE

There are tough talks ahead over any continuation of the ceasefire (AP)

Tough talks ahead as Gaza ceasefire holds with more hostages freed

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Mark Gillen suffered life-changing injuries in the boat yard accident (The Health and Safety Executive/PA)

Yacht builder fined £600,000 over accident which left worker seriously injured

Neil Walne, said that lead Ofsted inspector Alan Derry told him during the inspection that the school had a ‘robust’ safeguarding culture and that no child felt unsafe at the school (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Ofsted inspector ‘said Ruth Perry’s school had robust safeguarding culture’

Mr Trump denies any wrongdoing (AP)

Gag order barring Trump from maligning court staff in fraud trial reinstated

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Mehmet Koray Alpergin, who was tortured to death near Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (Metropolitan Police/PA)

Thugs found guilty of radio DJ kidnap killing

Former health secretary Matt Hancock has given evidence to the Covid-19 inquiry (PA)

Lives would have been saved with an earlier lockdown – Hancock

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Rishi Sunak has described the UK as a ‘world leader’ on climate change (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Sunak will not allow ‘zealots’ to dictate climate policy as he heads to Cop28

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The giant pandas will head back to China in early December (Jane Barlow/PA)

Zoo visitors in final farewell to pandas ahead of return to China

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Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarising political content in an apparent effort to divide the US before next year’s elections, Meta has said (Tony

Fake Facebook accounts shut down by Meta were ‘primed to polarise voters’

Microsoft has committed to invest £2.5bn in the UK over the next three years (Niall Carson/PA)

Microsoft to invest £2.5bn in UK to boost AI plans

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