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A bitter cold snap has begun to sweep in across the UK and is expected grip the country over the weekend with some places already seeing around 10cm of snow.

Children aged five and under are being exposed to pornography online, leading to addiction, Sky News has learned.

The UK's flagship stock index has broken the symbolic 10,000 points mark for the first time.

Passing the 10,000-point barrier is a largely symbolic milestone for the FTSE 100, but it underlines an upward trend for the index of the UK's largest companies and offers some cautious optimism for the year ahead.

A chickenpox vaccine is being rolled out on the NHS for the first time.

A suspect has been charged with murder by police investigating the death of a 24-year-old man on New Year's Eve.

Rachel Reeves is "quietly hammering" workers with stealth taxes as a result of her budget last year, a thinktank has said.

Two men have been charged after a pedestrian in his 80s died when he was hit by a car and carried on top of it.

"Miracles do happen," Juliet tells me as we stand huddled against the cold on the edge of a boggy, windswept field in Warwickshire.

A double murderer has been awarded £7,500 compensation by the High Court over breaches of his human rights.