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Britain's biggest banks have fired a renewed warning to the government against hiking taxes on the industry as John Healey, the new chancellor, prepares to deliver his inaugural Budget in October.

The gap between boys and girls closed to its lowest rate in 37 years, but it's not just a case of boys improving faster and catching up with girls.

A man has been charged in connection with the terror attack at the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester last year.

The school of a 14-year-old who died after getting into difficulty in the sea has called her a "sweet girl" who will be "greatly missed".

A conman who defrauded victims out of £68,000 by claiming he had cancer and served in the special forces, among other lies, has been jailed.

A snake almost killed by a cancerous tumour has been saved after what's been called a world-first treatment - originally for humans.

A tanker has been boarded by six gunmen off the coast of Yemen.

A man who kicked and strangled a woman twice before she escaped and fled to a petrol station has been jailed for nearly three years.

A conman who defrauded victims out of £68,000 by claiming he had cancer and served in the special forces, among other lies, has been jailed.

The bodies of two Belgian mountaineers who went missing in the Swiss Alps more than three decades ago have been found in a melting glacier.

A British motorbike racer has become the second to die during qualifying for the Manx Grand Prix this week.

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and the Israeli government began a war of words over a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank.

A former world snooker champion has denied sexually abusing two children, branding the allegations "disgusting".

An Australian woman who murdered three of her estranged husband's relatives with poisonous mushrooms should never be released from prison, a prosecutor told an appeals court.

Poundland's owner has picked advisers to handle a sale of the discount chain just over a year after it last changed hands.

The boss of Travelodge has quit amid a backlash over the chain's handling of a sexual assault at one of its hotels.

The boss of Travelodge has quit amid a backlash over the chain's handling of a sexual assault at one of its hotels.

A steam tugboat wreck over 100 years old and an ancient Roman bridge have emerged from shrinking waters as Europe suffers its worse drought in 70 years.

Poundland's owner has picked advisers to handle a sale of the discount chain just over a year after it last changed hands.