Sledge tracks in the snow on Saffron Walden Common, as a family (two adults, a dog and a child riding a sledge) crosses.
A person walks up Market Hill, Saffron Walden, in the snow.
St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden, in the snow.
Storm Goretti has brought icy winds and cold rain to replace Monday’s snow (pictured) in Saffron Walden
A father lugs a sledge up a snowy hill (The Common, Saffron Walden) as two children follow behind.
Snow covers the roofs of old houses which line a quiet road.
The Common, Saffron Walden after snow, with St Mary’s Church steeple in the background.
Temperatures in Saffron Walden remained below freezing throughout Monday morning and into lunchtime after snow fell overnight
A Ryanair flight bound for Porto takes off from London Stansted Airport, against a glowing orange sunrise.
At sunrise - The silhouette of Stansted Airport’s tall control tower and two aircraft
A Ryanair plane waiting during sunrise at Stansted Airport.
A brief break in the clouds over Stansted Airport in Essex teased yesterday’s winter solstice sunrise
Even closer than the Brexit referendum - MPs tied 100-100 in their vote on the Lib Dems' UK-EU Customs Union (Duty to Negotiate) Bill.
Expanded licensing powers for the Mayor of London will "create the conditions for London’s night-time economy to thrive", says Miatta Fahnbulleh
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"We are not wasting time," says former Lord Justice of Appeal Baroness Butler-Sloss.
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Peers took 4h44 to debate just 21 amendments to the assisted dying Bill - and there are now more than 1,000 to get through.
Surrey County Council leader Tim Oliver has vowed to “review and strengthen” the organisation’s systems and culture “as per the recommendations”.
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After the review into Sara Sharif’s murder, Will Forster last week described “constant management failures” at Surrey County Council.
“I don’t have faith and trust that they’ll put this right,” he tells me.
"We will meet the iron-clad fiscal rules, we will make public finances more resilient, we will reduce inflationary pressures and we will get the cost of borrowing down," says James Murray ahead of next week's Budget.
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“It’s the hokey cokey Budget – one minute it’s in, the next minute it’s out"
Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said a minister of old "would be resigning for anything that was released", as James Murray took questions about pre-Budget briefings.
Peers debated assisted dying and the devolution settlement as they began line-by-line scrutiny of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
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Benefit claimants risk falling victim to Government “mass fishing” exercises, as ministers receive new powers to look at bank account details to tackle fraud, says Steve Darling.
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Hiding money away in British overseas territories has a knock-on effect for British families, a Labour MP has warned.
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Labour backbenchers David Smith and Maya Ellis challenged Treasury ministers to consider tweaking their plan to bring farms into inheritance tax
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Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged Home Sec Shabana Mahmood to “look at the very serious problem of some trains operating without any staff on at all”.
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Are ferry firms leaving island and river communities high and dry? Joe Robertson has tabled the Ferry Services (Integration and Regulation) Bill in an effort to bring boats more in line with buses and trains.
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There are “no current plans” to ban VPNs, but “nothing is off the table when it comes to keeping children safe”, a tech minister has said.
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Football fans have “ingenious ways” of breaking into grounds, a Labour peer has warned.
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Peers gave the Licensing Hours Extensions Bill their backing at second reading, in a bid to ease the process of extending licensing hours for nationally important special events.
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“A food allergy enthusiast will claim they saw a potato which has made them go blind.”
Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest, who is opening The North Star in Brighton with her charity Team Domenica, reads some advice she got from Jeremy Clarkson about running a pub.
"How people get to and from an airport is as important as the number of flights and planes that are landing and taking off," says Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander
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Scotland lands the most fish by quantity and value out of the four UK nations, but will get less than 8% of a new fund for fishing and coastal communities.
This is "ocean-going madness", says Alistair Carmichael.
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The still Adriatic Sea off the coast of Budva - with its Old Town in view - as parasailing takes place above.
Budva's Old Town
A view of Budva's suburbs from atop a hill, with mountains beyond.
A postcard from Budva 🇲🇪
Labour has "no plan" to ease the debts blighting English councils, one Unite delegate warned on stage at the party's conference. Unite the Union is behind the long-running Birmingham bin strike
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"Let’s ban fracking," says Ed Miliband, as he warns it is "dangerous and deeply harmful to our natural environment"
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EXC: When Reform UK overturned a 14,696 majority in the only by-election of the Parliament so far, it was a "wake-up call" for Sir Keir Starmer, Labour's losing candidate tells me
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In a blow for Sir Keir Starmer and the Government, Labour conference has approved a motion which says Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza
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After a brief speech, where he said his “marching orders” to “get Britain building again” came directly from Sir Keir Starmer, Steve Reed signed bucket hats, caps and t-shirts.
It’s not even day one proper and the bucket hats are out
