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Not one, not two, but six planets are due to line up in the night skies this weekend in a relatively rare planetary parade.

At the wedding venue in Gorton and Denton the Green Party chose for the news conference to mark a seismic by-election victory on national television, it was clear that Zack Polanski and his team were new to all of this.

A man who left his partner paralysed in a "brutal assault" after she told him she was leaving him has been jailed.

A migrant from Afghanistan has been jailed for 10 years for the rape of a "vulnerable, intoxicated" woman.

A picture of a "rare" boot has been released as police try to identify a woman whose body was found off the coast of Iona last year.

A residents' group has said it plans to launch a fresh legal challenge over plans to use a military training camp in Crowborough as accommodation for asylum seekers.

The UK government has issued a travel warning for Israel and Palestine and withdrawn its diplomatic staff from Iran, as the US advises embassy officials in Jerusalem they can leave.

Police in Belfast have appealed for witnesses after a statue of Queen Victoria was vandalised.

A man has been jailed for killing his partner after trapping her in his home, restricting her diet to just vodka and ice lollies, and inflicting more than 100 injuries on her.

The statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square in Westminster was defaced overnight with "Zionist war criminal" and other graffiti.