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  1. Official figures show the UK has recorded 26,860 new COVID-19 cases and a further 462 COVID-19 related deaths in the latest 24-hour period For more on this and other news visit

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  2. A government source has said Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief adviser Dominic Cummings has resigned from his role For more on this and other news visit

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  3. John Hays founder and managing director of the UK's biggest independent travel company Hays Travel has died according to a company statement For more on this and other news visit

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  4. Official figures show the UK has recorded 27,301 further daily COVID-19 cases compared with 33,470 for the previous 24 hours and 376 further daily deaths compared with 563 for the previous period For more on this and other news visit

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  5. Metropolitan Police says a 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Sergeant Matt Ratana For more on this and other news visit

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  6. Egypt's football association says Liverpool forward Mo Salah has tested positive for coronavirus ahead of Egypt facing Togo in the African Cup of Nations qualifiers For more on this and other news visit

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  7. West Yorkshire Police Chief Constable John Robins has issued an apology to relatives of Peter Sutcliffe's victims for "the language, tone and terminology used by senior officers at the time"

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  8. Sky understands Peter Sutcliffe - the Yorkshire Ripper - has died For more on this and other news visit

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  9. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says the Government is "actively working on" reducing the quarantine period and will say more on what this means for international travel "soon" For more on this and other news visit

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  10. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tells Sky News the Prime Minister's chief adviser Dominic Cummings had not planned to stay in the role much longer than a year but "will be missed" For more on this and other news visit

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  11. Sky News understands chief adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson Dominic Cummings will leave his role by the end of the year For more on this and other news visit

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  12. Official figures show the UK has recorded a further 563 covid-19 related deaths compared to 595 yesterday For more on this and other news visit

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  13. Official figures show the UK has recorded a further 33,470 daily cases of coronavirus compared to 22,950 yesterday

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  14. Associated Press reports seven peacekeepers, including Americans, have been killed in a helicopter crash in Egypt's Sinai peninsula For more on this and other news visit

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  15. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps given his consent for a controversial road project which will see a tunnel built under the neolithic Stonehenge site in Wiltshire For more on this and other news visit

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  16. The Northern Irish government was working to wrong end date of its four-week "circuit breaker" lockdown as restrictions do not expire until midnight on Friday For more on this and other news visit

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  17. Scottish First Minister Nicola sturgeon says a further 45 deaths of people with Covid-19 have been recorded in Scotland in the past 24 hours For more on this and other news visit

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  18. NHS England says the number of people having to wait more than 52 weeks to start hospital treatment was 139,545 in September of this year which is the highest for any calendar month since September 2008 For more on this and other news visit

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  19. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick says he does not think the resignation of Lee Cain "is the country's biggest concern" and believes the public want the government to focus on tackling the pandemic For more on this and other news visit

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  20. Housing and Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick says "There is every reason for optimism that we will move back to Tier 2 on 2 December" For more on this and other news visit

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