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The main members of a people smuggling gang have been given long jail sentences after 39 Vietnamese illegal immigrants suffocated in the back of their lorry.

The COVID-19 variant that was first identified in the UK may be more deadly than the original virus, the prime minister has warned.

Britons hoping to escape to Spain could have their holiday plans cancelled following reports the Spanish prime minister said the country would not welcome international tourists until the “end of summer”.

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested after a teenager was murdered in a street attack in Birmingham.

Investigators have arrested 320 of the UK’s most dangerous child sex offenders since the first coronavirus lockdown, it has been revealed.

The brother of one of the Reading terror attack victims has spoken on what would have been his 40th birthday, saying his life had been “taken away for no reason whatsoever”.

Retail sales in 2020 saw the largest annual fall since records began in 1996, as retailers continued to suffer from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

Temperatures could drop as low as -10C in the coming days, as heavy rain brought by Storm Christoph is replaced by sub-zero conditions this weekend.

Almost 10,000 licensed premises – including pubs, clubs and restaurants – closed permanently last year as the coronavirus crisis hammered the hospitality sector, according to new figures.

The full closure of the UK’s borders has been “considered” by the government amid concerns about new COVID variants being imported from abroad, a minister has revealed.