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The figure is likely to be lower than the true number of workers who have died.

A river burst its banks at Worcester while Ironbridge and Tewkesbury were also braced for the deluge.

The Actors’ Benevolent Fund supports those unable to work due to illness, injury or old age or experiencing financial hardship.

The mother-of-four was the granddaughter of the 11th Duke of Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish.

Freelance and self-employed workers have lost pay this year and been unable to access support, study suggests.

Boris Johnson, Captain Sir Tom Moore, and the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have given their backing to the campaign.

Willoughby, Rafferty and Emmeline were born at 29 weeks, on May 28, weighing between 2lb and 3.5lb.

None of the company’s stores will close, and no jobs will be lost under the new deal, Clarks has said.

Morningside Parish Church in Edinburgh will hold a socially distanced service on Christmas Day.

The backlog of lorries is expected to take days to clear.

Ministers met to consider the latest data amid concern over rising infection rates.

The arrangement will see 25 stores move to turnover-based rent.

Wealden in East Sussex and Uttlesford in Essex are among the areas that could be heading for Tier 4.

Professor Neil Ferguson said what happens in January is the critical question.

Scotland’s First Minister was photographed at a funeral wake in a bar without a face mask.

The game has been held annually in the market town of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, for centuries.

Chris Lewis spent the first lockdown alone on a previously uninhabited Shetland island.

Workers based at Heathrow will walk out for nine days in a dispute over pay and conditions.

The news came as the country prepares to enter fresh lockdown restrictions.

Viral duo The Bald Builders toured their West Sussex community in a van-turned-Santa’s grotto.