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Police investigating the murder of a 12-year-old girl in Liverpool city centre are going to review hundreds of hours of CCTV in an attempt to find out what happened.

A worrying new COVID strain has been classified by the World Health Organisation as a "variant of concern" - its most serious level - and officially given the Greek name Omicron.

So the new variant has a name, but we've no idea about its reputation.

The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) is warning that waiting times have trebled as the country battles the highest COVID infection rate in the UK.

The first victim of Wednesday's tragedy in the Channel has been named as Mariam Nouri Hamadameen, a 24-year-old Kurdish woman from northern Iraq.

The UK has recorded 50,091 new COVID-19 cases and 160 more coronavirus-related deaths in the latest 24-hour period, government data shows.

Richard Madeley is "gutted" that he cannot return to I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! - but says he feels "fit as a fiddle".

Men and women are teeing off based on their ability, not gender, at Hartford Golf Club in Cheshire.

A man has died after his car was hit by a falling tree in Northern Ireland as Storm Arwen batters the UK with strong winds.

Nicola Sturgeon has said she will consider a formal apology for victims of Scotland's so-called "tinker experiment".