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Three-quarters of pensioners to get winter fuel payment after U-turn
Chancellor Rachel Reeves provides details of a major policy U-turn. Nine million pensioners in England and Wales with an annual income of £35,000 or less will now be eligible.
More than three-quarters of pensioners will receive the winter fuel payment this year after Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirms a major U-turn. We look at the new policy and the politics of the decision.
Who are the Palestinian gunmen shooting at those trying to collect aid parcels in Gaza?
And best-selling author Lee Child pays tribute to The Day of the Jackal author Frederick "Freddie" Forsyth, who has died aged 86.
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