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At least 19 wildfires are burning across the UK as a third heatwave in as many months continues - causing a phenomonon experts have previously called a "firewave".

Police believe the deaths of three people in Ballymena on Monday involved a double murder.

The UK will hold its largest home defence exercise in decades next year to better prepare the country for the possibility of war.

The UK has now had 25 days this year when temperatures have exceeded 30C as the country experiences its third heatwave of the summer, the Met Office has said.

Former Radio 2 presenter Scott Mills was the BBC's highest earner until he was sacked in March, latest figures reveal.

A man who raped and murdered his estranged wife before staging a scene to make it look like she had taken her own life has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum 33 years.

Former Liverpool player Jordon Ibe pulled a braid from his ex-girlfriend's head during an argument, a court was told.

The bereaved families of the 1994 RAF Chinook helicopter crash cannot bring a legal claim against the Ministry of Defence over the incident, a High Court judge has ruled.