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BBC National Rail said trains had been cancelled and services would likely be affected until about 22:00 GMT A city’s railway and bus station have been evacuated due to a bomb scare. Chester station closed at about 18:00 GMT and a police cordon was put up around it, with no buses running from the nearby…

NOVEMBER 22: The Eagles placed Huff on injured reserve on Wednesday, sidelining him for at least four weeks. He will be eligible to return in Week 16 for Philadelphia’s crucial divisional tilt against the Commanders. NOVEMBER 20: The Eagles’ defense has made strides in recent weeks, helping the team to an 8-2 record. Bryce Huff, however,…

Passengers have filmed lava floes and smoke as their plane passed over a volcano on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula. It was erupting for the seventh time in less than a year. Down below, the car park at Iceland’s world-famous Blue Lagoon was engulfed in lava. Hotel guests and nearby homes were evacuated but authorities said there…

England: Furbank; Freeman, Lawrence, Slade, Sleightholme; M Smith, Van Poortvliet; Genge, George (capt), Stuart, Itoje, Martin, T Curry, Underhill, Earl. Replacements: Cowan-Dickie, Baxter, Opoku-Fordjour, Isiekwe, Cunningham-South, Randall, F Smith, Roebuck. Japan: Matsunaga; Osada, Riley, Fifita, Naikabula; McCurran, Saito; Okabe, Harada, Takeuchi, Waqa, Uluiviti, Shimokawa, Himeno, Makisi. Replacements: Lee, Morikawa, Tamefusa, Akiyama, Tatafu, Gunter, Fujiwara, Kajimura.…

Officers in the southern Netherlands have found a garden gnome weighing nearly 2kg (4lb) and made of the drug MDMA. “Drugs appear in many shapes and sizes, but every now and then we come across special things,” Dongemond Police said in a translated social media post. The gnome was found among suspected narcotics during a…

Getty Images The government’s prisons minister Lord Timpson says the backlog of offenders who need electronic tags “has now been reduced to normal levels”. This comes after several probation officers told the BBC that over the last month more than a dozen offenders had been recalled to prison because electronic ankle tags fitters had not…

Russia has a stock of powerful new missiles “ready to be used”, President Vladimir Putin has said, a day after his country fired a new ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. In an unscheduled TV address, the Russian leader said the Oreshnik missile could not be intercepted and promised to carry out more…

Passengers have filmed lava floes and smoke as their plane passed over a volcano on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula. It was erupting for the seventh time in less than a year. Down below, the car park at Iceland’s world-famous Blue Lagoon was engulfed in lava. Hotel guests and nearby homes were evacuated but authorities said there…

Journalist Allison Pearson said she felt “bullied and threatened”, after a visit from Essex Police during a since-dropped investigation into a social media post by her. The Daily Telegraph columnist told BBC Radio 4’s PM programme the home visit was not “standard practice” and was “absolutely unacceptable”. Essex Police says officers paid Pearson a visit…

PORT LOUIS (Reuters) -The prime minister of Mauritius, Navin Ramgoolam, who was sworn in this month after a landslide election victory, said on Friday he will keep the post of finance minister for himself to help keep the economy under close watch. “We are doing an audit of the economy to see to what extent…