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Huge changes are coming to WhatsApp messenger app

WhatsApp now allows users to hide intimate chats - how it works

Rishi Sunak has declared his wife’s shares in a childcare agency set to benefit from budget amid investigation

Rishi Sunak declares wife’s shares in firm amid investigation

Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council to receive £2m from ‘discharge’ fund

Liz Truss today sacked chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng. Photo: Getty

Fracking site renamed ‘Liz Truss Career Memorial’ on Google Maps

Major announcement made on NHS prescription charges in England

First News: A beary good idea!

The new treatment has officially been approved for use in the UK (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

What you need to know about new Covid-19 treatment sotrovimab - and how it works

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference after cases of the new Covid-19 variant were confirmed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2021 in London, England. UK authorities confirmed today that two cases of the new Omicron Covid-19 variant, which had prompted a flurry of travel bans affecting several countries in Southern Africa, were found in the UK. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Tighter rules on face masks and PCR tests for foreign travel announced

UK Government ‘not fully prepared’ for ‘wide-ranging impacts’ of Covid pandemic ...

Harborough MP Neil O’Brien.

Plans to officially list and protect Lubenham War Memorial are being backed by H...

Annual Covid booster jabs could be introduced - but no plans yet to vaccinate un...

The Prison Service has unveiled plans to build a new houseblock at 56-year-old high-security Gartree Prison by 2024 – housing up to 247 more inmates.

Have your say over a multi-million pound plans to expand Gartree Prison

Allegra Stratton said that an EV did not currently fit with her lifestyle (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Government climate spokesperson ‘won’t swap diesel for EV’

The move is part of One Britain One Nation Day on Friday, June 25 (Getty Images)

Government encourages children to sing this 'One Britain One Nation' song on Jun...

The Government has announced it plans to bring a Covid-status certification system into place in England, as part of the easing of lockdown restrictions (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here's how Covid-status certification will work in England as mass event trials ...

The Government has announced the first areas of the UK which will benefit from ultra-fast broadband (Photo: Shutterstock)

These are the UK areas due to receive ultra fast broadband first - and when it w...

The Government’s catch-up programme for pupils impacted by school closures due to the coronavirus pandemic may not be reaching disadvantaged children, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said (Photo: Shutterstock)

Catch-up tuition may not be reaching the most disadvantaged children - according...

Education Secretary Gavin Wiliamson has not ruled out longer school days for children (Photo: Getty Images)

School days could be made longer and holidays shortened to help children catch u...

The Government is being urged to recognise long Covid as an occupational disease and set up a compensation scheme for frontline workers suffering from the condition (Photo: Shutterstock)

Campaigners want long Covid compensation scheme for frontline workers - here’s w...

The Government has withdrawn a ‘“stay home, save lives” advert after it was deemed as depicting women in a sexist way (Photo: Shutterstock)

This Government advert was withdrawn for its ‘sexist’ depiction of women

(Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Here's how the new 1-9 number GCSE grading system works - and the equivalent gra...

A top Harborough councillor wants new devolved Covid-19 powers to be handed to the district council and not the county.

'We should be given the power to deal directly with any potential Covid-19 outbr...

(Photo: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Some at-home coronavirus test kits have been deemed not fit for purpose by the g...

Shoppers will soon be forced to wear face masks in England (Photo: Getty)

All the people who do not have to wear face coverings in shops from July 24