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Star Wars, super moons and superheros were among the trends when it came to naming babies in 2016.

Rival companies and analysts gave a cautious welcome to the telecoms regulator’s decision yesterday to order BT to legally separate from its Openreach business, which runs the UK’s broadband infrastructure.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will not force his MPs to block an SNP attempt to trigger a parliamentary investigation into whether Tony Blair misled the Commons in the run-up to the Iraq war.

Major household brands are selling everyday grocery staples containing palm oil produced using child labour, Amnesty International has claimed.

Benefit sanctions that can plunge claimants into hardship, hunger and depression are being handed out with little evidence they work, a scathing report by the public spending watchdog has found.

Kate Bush has praised Theresa May as “wonderful” and said having a female prime minister is “the best thing that’s happened” in the UK for a long time.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has rebuffed efforts by Theresa May to seek an early agreement on the rights of Britons living in the European Union and EU citizens in the UK, according to reports.

The use of animal fat in the new £5 note has been branded “disrespectful” as a petition against the inclusion of tallow reaches 5,000 signatures.

Manufacturers have become more concerned about the cost and security of energy supplies since the Brexit vote, a new study has shown.

The Conservatives have opened up a 16-point lead over Labour, according to the latest polling.

The government is facing embarrassment after a Downing Street photographer captured what appeared to be the UK’s Brexit negotiating plan sketched out in a page of handwritten notes.

Nigel Farage will return to the United States within days as he continues to pose a diplomatic headache to Theresa May over his closeness to US President-elect Donald Trump.

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Parts of England could shiver through temperatures well below freezing on Tuesday night while northern Scotland basks in single figures, forecasters have predicted.

Thousands of women with a family history of breast cancer could be offered a cheap drug to reduce their risk of getting the disease themselves.

Commuters are facing chaos this morning after a train derailed in Edinburgh.

Five-time world darts champion Eric Bristow, 59, sparked outrage and was branded “homophobic” after he commented on the abuse investigations on social media today.

The Scottish Government is to again call on ministers in London to “urgently confirm” the status of European citizens working in Scotland.

Ukip’s new leader Paul Nuttall has said he will “promote the English” and pursue more devolution for England in an appeal to disaffected working-class voters in Labour’s northern heartlands.