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The Queen and Harry Potter author JK Rowling have enjoyed an afternoon discussing the importance of young people having access to books.

BBC staff could see a real-terms pay cut in the year ahead, a proposal shows, just weeks after the announcement that hundreds of roles are to be axed.

Andy Burnham's approach is unusual but it should work, former deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman has said.

The number of reported hate crime charges in Scotland has surged to a record high.

Councillors have backed a draft strategy amid plans to connect some of the Shetland Islands with undersea tunnels.

Red alerts for extreme heat have been issued in Italy and the Balkans as a record-breaking heatwave continues to bake the European continent.

A woman has described Top Boy actor Micheal Ward as "overpowering," telling a court she "didn't really feel like I had a choice" as she was raped by him in a car.

Former Sheffield United player Maddy Cusack's coach called her a "psycho" before her death, an inquest heard.

A murder investigation has been launched after the death of a man in a reported stabbing in London.

Katie Boulter is out of Wimbledon after losing to teenage qualifier Tyra Caterina Grant.

The UK culture secretary could be about to put a spanner in the works for one of the biggest media deals in history.

A teenage police officer was fatally hit by a car as she closed a road, an inquest has heard.

A Hollywood director has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison after conning Netflix out of $11m (£8.3m) for an unfinished science fiction series.

Shares in major housebuilders have tumbled after it emerged they are facing a class action lawsuit potentially worth more than £4bn.

A woman has died after an alligator bit off one of her arms in Florida.

A makeshift bomb which detonated outside a residential building in Monaco has injured three people, with reports suggesting a Ukrainian tycoon is among them.

Three people have been seriously injured after a makeshift bomb detonated outside a residential building in Monaco.

Construction leaders are demanding urgent government action to help encourage housebuilding - warning that the industry is facing "a present-day emergency".

From tests to scans, and from going into labour to feeling your new baby's skin on yours for the first time - what happens at each stage of the maternity care journey is recorded by healthcare staff.