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Chris Kaba was unarmed when he was shot and killed (Inquest/PA)

Met firearms officers return to normal duties

Sir Michael Gambon has died aged 82 (Ian West/PA)

JK Rowling and Daniel Radcliffe lead tributes to Harry Potter star Michael Gambon

People look at the tree at Sycamore Gap, next to Hadrian’s Wall (Owen Humphreys/PA)

Teenage boy arrested over felling of landmark tree on Hadrian’s Wall

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak joked about Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Matt Hancock in a speech to political journalists (Justin Tallis/PA)

Sunak mocks Johnson, Truss and Hancock in speech to political journalists

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Scott Panetti has been spared the death penalty (Texas Department of Criminal Justice/AP)

Man who killed in-laws before trying to call Jesus as witness is spared death

The Prime Minister announced changes to net zero pledges last week (Justin Tallis/PA)

Scottish and Welsh ministers call for climate summit after PM’s net zero speech

Emergency services outside the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam (AP)

Three killed by lone gunman in ‘black day’ for the Netherlands

Laurence Fox (Ian West/PA)

Laurence Fox apologises for ‘demeaning’ comments made about Ava Evans on GB News

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A man walks next to a damaged car after floods in the town of Agria near the city of Volos, Greece (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

Storm fills homes with mud and triggers power cut after slamming into Greek city

Family and friends of Elianne Andam at the scene in Croydon, south London, where 15-year-old Elianne was stabbed to death on Wednesday morning (James Manning/PA)

Family of teenage girl killed on way to school visits scene as vigil is held

Chris Packham said continued cuts to Government agencies tasked with protective nature has made them less effective (Yui Mok/PA)

Campaigners in protest outside Defra to demand more action to protect nature

Former US president Donald Trump (PA)

Donald Trump suing ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele at High Court

Disgraced entertainer Jimmy Savile was revealed as a prolific sex offender after his death in 2012 (Peter Jordan/PA)

New NI anonymity laws ‘would have prevented reporting of Savile allegations’

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Bianca Williams outside Palestra House, central London, for the gross misconduct hearing of five Metropolitan Police officers (Lucy North/PA)

Athlete Bianca Williams cries as she recounts moment police handcuffed her

The Stormont institutions have not been operating for more than a year (Liam McBurney/PA)

Government working intensely to get Stormont up and running – Sunak

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Bellum Justum pulled out all the stops to strike at Newmarket (Tim Goode/PA)

Bellum Justum too streetwise for promising Inisherin

At least 80% of new cars sold by manufacturers must be zero emission in 2030 (PA)

More than a fifth of new cars sold from 2024 must be zero emission

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Millions of people are eligible for the latest Covid-19 booster jab (Danny Lawson/PA)

Covid-19 hospital admissions in England stabilise after recent rise

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Palestinian workers enter Israel after crossing from Gaza on the Israeli side of Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip in March 2022 (Oded Balilty/AP)

Tensions ease as Israel reopens main Gaza crossing for Palestinian labourers

Sir Michael Gambon (Ian West/PA)

Sir Michael Gambon remembered as the ‘loveliest of legends’

Tewkesbury Academy in Gloucesershire was locked down after the incident (Ben Birchall/PA)

Teenager told teacher ‘I’m sorry’ before stabbing him, court hears

Climate protesters Jacob Bourne, centre), and Judit Murray, right (PA)

Climate protesters at Ashes Test ‘had champagne corks and fruit thrown at them’

Researchers have discovered what makes carrots orange (KIrsty O’Connor/PA)

Researchers discover what makes carrots orange

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Nicola Sturgeon stood with striking school staff in Edinburgh (Sharron MacAulay/PA)

Sturgeon shows support for striking school staff on picket line

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Michael Gambon arriving for the world premiere of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Ian West/PA)

‘Beloved’ actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82

Dan Wootton’s contract has been terminated (Gemma Gravett/GB News/PA)

MailOnline terminates contract with columnist Dan Wootton amid GB News furore

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Mohamad Al Bared has been told he may face a life term when he is sentenced (West Midlands Police/PA)

PhD student guilty of making drone to deliver chemical weapon for terrorists

The blast tore homes apart outside Uppsala (TT News Agency via AP)

Three killed in overnight shootings and explosion in Sweden

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Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has met with the Ukrainian president (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Grant Shapps visits President Zelensky in Ukraine

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BBC sets new rules for flagship presenters after Gary Lineker impartiality row

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The tree at Sycamore Gap, at Hadrian’s Wall near Crag Lough, Northumberland, taken showing the Northern Lights (Owen Humphreys/PA)

In Pictures: Solitary tree at landmark Roman ruin became famous worldwide

Oil demand is fuelling fears over global inflation (Jane Barlow/PA)

Oil prices edge higher as global demand reignites inflation worries

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The scene near the Whitgift shopping centre in Croydon (PA)

Teenager in custody after 15-year-old girl with ‘bright future’ fatally stabbed

A custody van arrives at Derby Crown Court, where Carl Alesbrook is accused of murdering his partner’s son, Elijah Shemwell, in January 2022 (Jacob King/PA)

Trial date set for teenager charged with murdering baby when he was 16

Lee Ryan was handed a suspended sentence (James Manning/PA)

Blue star Lee Ryan handed suspended sentence for abusing cabin crew

The storm devastated parts of Volos (AP)

Storm Elias hits Greek city, filling homes with mud and knocking out power

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Junior doctors from the British Medical Association have staged walkouts (Danny Lawson/PA)

Sunak: NHS strikes ‘holding back progress’ on cutting waiting lists

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Mark Strong (United24/PA)

President Zelensky appoints British actor Mark Strong as United24 ambassador

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SOS Mediterranee was named one of the winners (AP)

Environmental and human rights activists awarded ‘Alternative Nobel’ prizes

A total of 45,052 models rolled off car factory lines, said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (Alamy/PA)

Car production down 10% in August after months of growth

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People take part in a protest in central London, against the Government’s decision to add XL bully dogs to the list of prohibited breeds under the Dangerous Dogs Act (Jeff Moore/PA)

XL bully dogs ‘a danger to our communities’, Prime Minister insists

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The craft was launched at CSBC Corp’s shipyards in Kaohsiung (AP)

Taiwan launches island’s first domestically-made submarine for testing

Some 42,500 people, or about 35% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population, had left for Armenia as of Wednesday morning, officials said (AP)

Separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh says it will disband by January 2024

The Chat GPT website (PA)

IT professionals urge Rishi Sunak to make AI ethics a priority at safety summit

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The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina during the wildfire (Matthew Thayer/The Maui News via AP)

First Maui fire congressional hearing to focus on electric provider, power grid

Private schools has criticised Sir Keir Starmer’s policy (Jacob King/PA)

Starmer denies ‘attack’ on private schools as he plans to charge VAT on fees

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Waves at high tide in Tramore in County Waterford (Niall Carson/PA)

Storm Agnes hits UK with gale force winds, floods and power outages

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service/AP)

Kim Jong Un pushes for boost in nuclear weapons production over ‘new cold war’

A body-worn video camera (Yui Mok/ PA)

Police officers ‘misusing body-worn cameras across England and Wales’

What the papers say (PA)

What the papers say – September 28

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Sir Keir Starmer will say the by-election is of ‘monumental significance’ (PA)

Rutherglen by-election of ‘monumental significance’, says Starmer

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Labour does not understand the aspirations of parents (Alberto Pezzali/PA)

Labour wants to stoke punishing class war with tax on private school fees – PM

A cargo vessel named MV Matthew is escorted into Cobh in Cork by the Irish Navy after a ‘significant quantity’ of suspected drugs were found onboard (PA)

Seventh man arrested in probe into record drugs haul seized on cargo ship

A new study suggests people are not getting referred for NHS help to tackle their weight (PA)

Just 3% of overweight and obese people referred for NHS programmes – study