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Housebound patients and those living in care homes will be amongst the first to receive their top-ups.

The Council would like to hear from applicants about why they would want to be considered and what it would mean for them to light the beacon.

They will arrive at Southfields Park on Sunday 21 April to start setting up ahead of the performances.

"The new facilities in our Young People’s Kitchen will help to enable our young people to grow and develop and achieve their aspirations."

Improvement work should start later this year and is expected to be completed by Easter 2025.

"It is now more than three weeks since Marie was last seen and we are extremely concerned for her welfare as are Marie’s family."

Some green spaces in the town are closed this weekend due to forecast high winds.

Some airports have been granted extensions to install new scanners to detect prohibited items.

In a world that has grown more dangerous in recent years, the nightmare scenario of a Third World War is in the public consciousness.

Rishi Sunak's flagship smoking ban has passed its first parliamentary hurdle despite opposition from within his cabinet - as Labour backed the bill.

Flights arriving into Dubai airport - the world's busiest for international travel - are being temporarily diverted this evening to other locations as the city-state is hit by major flooding after heavy rainfall.

Russ Cook, the British man nicknamed the Hardest Geezer who ran the length of Africa, has said he plans to run the London Marathon this Sunday. 

A judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial has warned the former president about "intimidating" potential jurors in the case.

A nursery deputy manager caused the death of a nine-month-old baby girl by tightly swaddling her, placing her face down and strapping her to a bean bag, a court has heard.

Birmingham Airport temporarily suspended operations today due to a "security incident on an aircraft".

Julian Assange's wife has accused the United States government of "blatant weasel words" as she tries to stop her husband being sent to America to stand trial.

Cole Palmer and Mauricio Pochettino have both reiterated that the Chelsea midfielder is the team's penalty taker after a "daft" spat with Nicolas Jackson and Noni Madueke.

Erik ten Hag's Manchester United future is now "largely dependent" on the FA Cup, says Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville after watching the latest below-par performance from his former side.

Chelsea have hit a stumbling block. Another trophy has slipped from their grasp. The Conti Cup was first to fall, now FA Cup dreams have met a similar fate. The fairytale ending up in smoke.

We knew the Tyson Fury versus Oleksandr Usyk heavyweight world title fight was attracting worldwide attention. We didn't realise that stretched all the way to the Vatican!

For more than a decade, Portsmouth have been sleeping giants.

Johnny Depp has said he tried to talk the director of his new film out of casting him in one of the lead roles.

Creating fake sexual images of another person will become a criminal offence, under a new law announced on Tuesday. 

The weapons supervisor for the film Rust has been jailed for 18 months following the fatal shooting of the film's cinematographer on set.

It started with a gentle "I need your participation, please", as Blur frontman Damon Albarn sought an audience singalong during a Coachella performance.

Olivier Awards presenter Hannah Waddingham has made headlines for hitting back at a photographer who appears to have asked her to "show leg".