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Public sector net borrowing was £10.7 billion in February, the Office for National Statistics said.

This year’s Sunday Times Best Places to Live guide is released online on Friday.

A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of producing illegal substances and making an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose.

Conflict in Ukraine continues to lead Friday’s front pages.

Thousands of homes have been left without power and more than 100 people were evacuated.

Dale Vince said if energy bills do not fall from historic highs it ‘will be a stick that Labour gets beaten with’ at the next election.

UK troops lead a battlegroup in Estonia and the 900 British service personnel in the country are the UK’s largest permanent overseas deployment.

People were evacuated from surrounding properties and a 200-metre cordon has been put in place as a precaution.

Jamie Cooper, 33, fled from the GEOAmey vehicle travelling to Lancaster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, Lancashire Police said.

Temperatures topped 21C in areas of London and Surrey on Thursday.

John Healey said the UK should not ‘fight shy’ of the fact it has such weapons, which are the ‘ultimate guarantor’ to any hostile state if it attacks.

David Norris was jailed for life with a minimum term of 14 years and three months in January 2012 for the 18-year-old’s murder.

The Reform UK leader allegedly accused the Great Yarmouth MP of ‘damaging the party just before elections’.

Jamie Cooper, 33, fled from the vehicle carrying prisoners to court when it was on the M55 on Wednesday, police said.

Around 200 people braved bitter conditions in the Estonian capital.

The Prime Minister said he was ‘certain’ the Russian president would flout the terms of a truce unless security arrangements were in place.

The London-born artist was known for his kinetic and optical art.