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Huge changes are coming to WhatsApp messenger app

WhatsApp now allows users to hide intimate chats - how it works

Rishi Sunak has declared his wife’s shares in a childcare agency set to benefit from budget amid investigation

Rishi Sunak declares wife’s shares in firm amid investigation

Liz Truss today sacked chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng. Photo: Getty

Fracking site renamed ‘Liz Truss Career Memorial’ on Google Maps

Map showing Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire

Bid for new East Midlands combined authority welcomed by Government

Major announcement made on NHS prescription charges in England

First News: A beary good idea!

Nottinghamshire County Council will start stepping down its supply of PPE from next month

PPE supply to be stepped down across county as part of 'living with Covid' plan

The new treatment has officially been approved for use in the UK (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

What you need to know about new Covid-19 treatment sotrovimab - and how it works

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference after cases of the new Covid-19 variant were confirmed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2021 in London, England. UK authorities confirmed today that two cases of the new Omicron Covid-19 variant, which had prompted a flurry of travel bans affecting several countries in Southern Africa, were found in the UK. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Tighter rules on face masks and PCR tests for foreign travel announced

UK Government ‘not fully prepared’ for ‘wide-ranging impacts’ of Covid pandemic ...

Annual Covid booster jabs could be introduced - but no plans yet to vaccinate un...

Allegra Stratton said that an EV did not currently fit with her lifestyle (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Government climate spokesperson ‘won’t swap diesel for EV’

The move is part of One Britain One Nation Day on Friday, June 25 (Getty Images)

Government encourages children to sing this 'One Britain One Nation' song on Jun...

The Government has announced it plans to bring a Covid-status certification system into place in England, as part of the easing of lockdown restrictions (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here's how Covid-status certification will work in England as mass event trials ...

The Government has announced the first areas of the UK which will benefit from ultra-fast broadband (Photo: Shutterstock)

These are the UK areas due to receive ultra fast broadband first - and when it w...

The Government’s catch-up programme for pupils impacted by school closures due to the coronavirus pandemic may not be reaching disadvantaged children, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said (Photo: Shutterstock)

Catch-up tuition may not be reaching the most disadvantaged children - according...

Education Secretary Gavin Wiliamson has not ruled out longer school days for children (Photo: Getty Images)

School days could be made longer and holidays shortened to help children catch u...

The Government is being urged to recognise long Covid as an occupational disease and set up a compensation scheme for frontline workers suffering from the condition (Photo: Shutterstock)

Campaigners want long Covid compensation scheme for frontline workers - here’s w...

The Government has withdrawn a ‘“stay home, save lives” advert after it was deemed as depicting women in a sexist way (Photo: Shutterstock)

This Government advert was withdrawn for its ‘sexist’ depiction of women

(Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Here's how the new 1-9 number GCSE grading system works - and the equivalent gra...

(Photo: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Some at-home coronavirus test kits have been deemed not fit for purpose by the g...

Shoppers will soon be forced to wear face masks in England (Photo: Getty)

All the people who do not have to wear face coverings in shops from July 24

File photo of a person using the NHS coronavirus contact tracing app. The Department of Health and Social Care has said the Government will abandon its efforts to develop its own coronavirus contact-tracing app in order to focus on technology from Apple and Google. Photo: PA

Government ditches own contact-tracing app to move to Apple and Google

Police are at the scene in Queen Street

Notts Police plea to public to not call force about coronavirus restrictions

These are the people most at risk of COVID-19. (Photo: Getty).

Coronavirus: This is a list of all the people the Government says are most at ri...

Security is being stepped up across the UK following the Paris attacks

‘Don’t lie down just run and hide!’ Government issues terror attack advice

The UK Pollution Index for today (Thursday 19th March 2015)

HEALTH ALERT: Toxic smog to blanket Nottinghamshire today

Video: Rise in minimum wage
The Government has announced that the minimum wage is to rise by 20 pence an hour from October.

File photo dated 28/03/2011 of Chancellor George Osborne, who will meet European finance ministers today to discuss the details of a possible bail-out of Portugal, amid fears that British tax-payers will have to find more than £4 billion as part of a rescue package. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday April 8, 2011. Mr Osborne flew out to Budapest last night for a two-day summit in the Hungarian capital after Portugal's prime minister Jose Socrates said his country would be seeking European help. See PA story EU Bailout. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Osborne guarantees concessionary fuel for miners