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Arooj Shah says she just wants to "crack on" with working hard for the people of Oldham.

A deal to hand Mauritius the Chagos Islands and lease back a key military base has been months in the making.

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is also exploring whether chemical castration could be made mandatory.

Ministers accept recommended pay awards above the 2.8% they previously budgeted for.

But the justice secretary says she rejects recommendations for earlier releases of the most serious offenders.

Reform insisted the advert featuring clips of a speech by the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar was not racist.

The ONS says the yearly decline in net migration is the biggest numerical drop on record.

At the High Court in Belfast, the Home Office agreed to pay substantial damages, and reasonable legal costs.

The UK had been due to hand over the islands to the Mauritian government.

Borrowing - the difference between spending and tax income - was £20.2bn, up £1bn from April last year.