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Hail Hits Hicksville Amid Thunderstorm Warning

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What are the hosepipe ban exemptions in England?

Government urged to double £350 payments for Ukrainian refugee hosts or risk mass homelessness

UN rights chief says Rohingya refugees unable to return

China's response to Pelosi visit a sign of future intentions

Millie Mackintosh on medication after lockdown and motherhood left her ‘consumed’ with anxiety

Man accused of attacking Sir Salman Rushdie pleads not guilty

‘The business trusts me to get everything done’: the supermarket giving employees with kids the flexibility they need

Mike Tyson reveals he smokes weed every day and micro-doses mushrooms to prep for fights

Met Police Covid fine for ‘partying’ while sitting at desk was ‘slap in face’, says cleared office worker

Prince William hails ‘landmark’ illegal wildlife trade sentencing

Germany's Scholz faces grilling over tax fraud scandal

The best canned cocktails, tried and tested

Homes in East Wight without power with more than 50 postcodes affected

North Dakota school board reinstates Pledge of Allegiance

Pole dancers reveal gender at baby shower party

Rishi Sunak: We won’t lose our best farmland to solar panels

Disqualified for disabilities, railroad workers fight back

Yaverland to welcome bare bathers in aid of British Heart Foundation

Liz Truss vows to safeguard 'precious Union' and carry on Johnson's strategy

Cold Front Brings Summer Rain to Northeast Texas