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Newborn babies across England will be tested for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) - a rare condition which causes progressive muscle wastage - from the end of this year, the Department of Health has announced.

Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders star Sam Neill died from pneumonia after beating cancer, his agent said.

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

A manhunt has begun after a prisoner convicted of attacking two women escaped while being taken to hospital.

The sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16s is to be banned in England from April next year.

A British mother who abducted her two sons from their American father has been on the run in the UK for more than three months, prompting him to take court action.