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Economists have forecast the Office for National Statistics will report a 0.3% fall due to unexpected hot weather during the month.

But the energy giant cannot install the meters until regulator Ofgem gives permission for the practice to re-start.

Ashley Dale, 28, was shot at home in Old Swan, Liverpool, in August last year.

The puppy was standing precariously on a first-floor window ledge after the window was believed to have been left ajar.

The 77-year old musician and frontman of the glam rock band was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer five years ago.

German owner Deutsche Bahn secured the sale, understood to be worth around 1.6 billion euros (£1.4 billion), after lengthy talks.

Prosecutors say Laura Langley, 37, squeezed her seven-week-old daughter Edith to death at their home in Blackpool.

The action by police forces across England and Wales also saw 458 weapons seized, including 33 guns and 377 knives.

The Home Office said tests for the bacteria had been completed ahead of the return of the occupants to the barge moored in Dorset.

Campaigners have urged Labour to protect the genomics sector if it forms the next government.

Providers are facing increased running costs which have led to higher rates for those receiving care, the Care Quality Commission said.

GfK said accelerating costs of energy, fuel and mortgages combined with uncertainty in the Middle East is behind the fall.

The mother said she and her son had been treated with contempt.

Theo Clarke called on the Government to do more to support women who experience traumatic births.

Claire Holland, 32, has not been seen alive since leaving a pub in Bristol in 2012 and her ex-partner Darren Osment, 41, is accused of her murder.

The document is part of an exhibition examining changing views of death throughout history.

The Prime Minister is in Israel as part of a two-day trip to the Middle East.

Alford Gardner, 97, set up Britain’s first Caribbean cricket club after he arrived on the Empire Windrush in 1948.

Until now, if experts wanted to electrically stimulate structures deep inside the brain, they needed to surgically implant electrodes into the brain.

Dr Lisa Cameron said she no longer believes in independence.