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A guitar used by John Lennon in the recording of The Beatles album and film Help! is going up for auction after being found in a loft.

US actor Terry Carter, who starred in 1970s TV shows including Battlestar Galactica and McCloud, has died at the age of 95.

Richard Osman has revealed three out of four of the lead characters for the forthcoming big screen adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club.

A police officer described the students stabbed to death in Nottingham last summer as "proper butchered" and said officers "tried to hold their inners in".

The post office scandal extends “greatly beyond” faulty Horizon software, according to a lawyer for victims.

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, will appear in court this morning charged with rape and other historical sex offences.

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said he wants the new NATO target for defence spending to increase from the current 2% of gross domestic product to 2.5%.

On the plane from Warsaw to Berlin, Rishi Sunak was buoyant as he briefly chatted to the travelling pack. 

Frank Field, the former Labour MP and minister, has died at the age of 81.

Many Conservative councillors face certain defeat on 2 May. The party will lose control of councils at the same time. The scale of this setback, so close to the general election, is the main consideration.