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Sir Cliff Richard is involved in a legal fight against the BBC (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

Reporter denies forcing hand of detective over raid on Sir Cliff Richard’s home

A graffiti mural of Prince (Ben Birchall/PA)

Prosecutor rules out criminal charges over death of Prince

Tessa Jowell with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth in the House of Commons ahead of the debate (The Brain Tumour Charity/PA)

Tessa Jowell urges MPs to fight the good fight during emotional cancer debate

The Queen addresses Commonwealth heads (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Queen speaks of wish for world leaders to endorse Charles as Commonwealth head

Lee Child has spoken out in favour of Jeremy Corbyn over Theresa May. (Ian West/PA)

Jeremy Corbyn would be a better prime minister than Theresa May – Lee Child

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Police Scotland undated handout photo of juror Catherine Leahy who has been jailed at the High Court in Glasgow for six years in the first prosecution of its kind in Scotland after she accepted a bribe.

Juror who accepted bribe jailed for six years

The Schwandt family poses for a portrait before the most recent arrival (Casey Sykes/AP)

Boy oh boy! Another son for US family brings total to 14

Raul Castro with his successor Miguel Diaz-Canel (Irene Perez/AP)

Raul Castro predicts long spell in power for successor as Cuba’s president

The Police Service of Northern Ireland attended a light aircraft crash in Co Antrim (Paul Faith/PA)

Sources: Two dead following NI light aircraft crash

Nicola Sturgeon refused to name the consultant who met Cambridge Analytica before the 2016 Holyrood elections (Jane Barlow/PA)

Angry clashes at Holyrood over Cambridge Analytica

Russian Tatiana Akhmedova who has won new High Court orders after being awarded £453 million by a London court against her billionaire ex-husband (Rick Findler/PA)

Divorce battle woman who won £453m granted further orders to help recover award

The men were sentenced at Stafford Crown Court (David Jones/PA)

Students jailed for sexually abusing vulnerable girls

Holidaymakers take a boat tour on the Nile River past the Great Pyramids (Amr Nabil/AP)

Egypt warning to Ethiopia over dam project on Nile tributary

Takeda has had a takeover bid rejected (Lauren Hurley/PA)

Shire rejects £44bn offer from Takeda as Allergan considers bid

Lady Tessa Jowell, centre, with Sarah Jones and James Brokenshire (The Brain Tumour Charity/PA)

MPs hail ‘inspirational’ Tessa Jowell during cancer treatment debate

Meghan Markle (Yui Mok/PA)

‘Free spirit’ Meghan Markle named in Time’s most influential list

Police are questioning two men about the death (Joe Giddens/PA)

Two men questioned in Belfast murder probe

Sir Cliff Richard arrives at the Rolls Building in London for the continuing legal action against the BBC over coverage of a police raid at his apartment in Berkshire in August 2014 (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

BBC reporter denies pressurising police over search of Cliff Richard home

This frame grab release airport CCTV footage shows Yulia Skripal, in a red circle (AP)

Russia shows footage of Yulia Skripal’s route to Moscow airport

A mounted tiger’s head was offered for sale (Crown Office/PA)

Antiques dealer fined for trying to sell tiger’s head

Lady Tessa Jowell, centre, with Sarah Jones and James Brokenshire (The Brain Tumour Charity/PA)

Tessa Jowell promised ‘parliamentary love’ during cancer treatment debate

People punt along the River Cam in Cambridge on what is expected to be the hottest day of the year so far (Joe Giddens/PA)

In Pictures: Fun in the sun amid soaring temperatures

Ajaz Karim was warned he faces a lengthy jail term (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Private school sports coach convicted of indecently assaulting girls

Dale Winton’s death is not being treated as suspicious, police say (Rex)

Dale Winton’s death unexplained but not suspicious – police

The Police Service of Northern Ireland attended a light aircraft crash in Co Antrim (Paul Faith/PA)

No patients taken from scene of light aircraft crash, says ambulance service

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn launched party plans for a new era of social housing (PA)

Labour pledge to build one million affordable homes to end housing ‘crisis’

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Nicola Sturgeon has refused to name the consultant who met Cambridge Analytica for the SNP (Jane Barlow/PA)

Sturgeon refuses to name consultant who met Cambridge Analytica for SNP

The child had got his shoe stuck in the escalator and required help from firefighters to be freed (Danny Lawson/PA)

Five-year-old boy trapped in escalator on school trip

Marathon Runners in fancy dress during the 2015 Virgin Money London Marathon (Adam Davy/PA)

Hottest April day for nearly 70 years brings warning for London Marathon runners

Dale Winton ‘devoted his life to making everyone else happy’ (Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA)

Dale Winton ‘devoted his life to making everyone else happy’

An artist’s impression of the light railway (London Luton Airport/PA)

Work begins on new light railway at Luton Airport

Takeda has had a takeover bid rejected (Lauren Hurley/PA)

Shire rejects £44 billion offer from Japan’s Takeda

A man touches a monument when attending an independent ceremony (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

In Pictures: Poland marks 75th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto uprising

Emma Hardy urged the Government to consider launching a full public inquiry into the use of mesh (Chris McAndrew/UK Parliament)

Vaginal mesh ‘biggest medical scandal’ since thalidomide, MPs told

DUP leader Arlene Foster giving evidence during the Renewable Heat Incentive public inquiry into Stormont’s botched green energy scheme (RHI Inquiry/PA)

Green energy scheme was not a personal priority, says Arlene Foster

The Queen speaks at the formal opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at Buckingham Palace (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Queen endorses Charles to take over as Commonwealth head

General view of Mount Everest in Nepal (David Cheskin/PA)

Honour for mountaineers who made first Everest conquest without oxygen supplies

House of Fraser has drafted in advisers to look at a range of restructuring options (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

House of Fraser’s troubles deepen as advisers called in over restructuring plan

The scene in Clevedon, Somerset, where a woman has died after a vehicle smashed into a property, around 8.30pm on Wednesday (Claire Hayhurst/PA)

Woman, 90, dies after van crashes into house

Marathon Runners in fancy dress during the 2015 Virgin Money London Marathon (Adam Davy/PA)

Fancy dress runners warned to reconsider ahead of ‘hottest-ever’ London Marathon

Russian soldiers and Syrian government forces overseeing the evacuation of rebel fighters from the Army of Islam and their families from the town of Dumayr (Sana/AP)

Syrian rebel fighters lay down weapons and leave another town

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, is welcomed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Michael Kappeler/AP)

France’s Emmanuel Macron promotes EU reform agenda on Germany visit

Sir Cliff Richard arrives at the Rolls Building in London for the continuing legal action against the BBC over coverage of a police raid at his apartment in Berkshire in August 2014 (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

Public should know what police are doing, says Cliff Richard case reporter

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell addressed city leaders in London (PA)

McDonnell offers finance sector a role in Labour policy making

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (PA)

PM accuses Corbyn over anti-Semitism after immigration criticism at PMQs

Soldiers during an operation to remove a contaminated police car from the Accident and Emergency entrance at Salisbury District Hospital in Wiltshire (Corporal Pete Brown/British Army)

Kremlin-backed TV channel sparks new Ofcom investigations

Compressed air rushes out of damaged aircraft windows (David Maialetti/AP)

What happens when a plane window is smashed?

Theresa May (PA)

May hits back at claims she was callous to Windrush generation

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The scene in Clevedon, Somerset, where a woman has died after a vehicle smashed into a property (Claire Hayhurst/PA)

Woman dies after car smashes into side of house

People with daffodils gather for non-official anniversary ceremonies (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

Poland pauses to remember Warsaw Ghetto uprising after 75 years

A replica of the new European Solar Telescope which is to begin observations in a decade (Queen’s University/PA)

New solar telescope will be able to shine fresh light on mysteries of the Sun

Unilever has announced its first quarter results (PA)

Unilever hikes dividend and launches share buyback programme despite sales dip

The Prince of Wales speaks during the formal opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Commonwealth can be a cornerstone for the lives of future generations – Charles

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