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1. Budget 2025 live: Rachel Reeves appears with iconic red Budget briefcase ahead of unveiling tax rises and cuts

   Chancellor to unveil series of tax hikes to fill black hole in public finances in addition to ditching two-child benefit cap and changes to ISAs in highly anticipated Budget on Wednesday

2. Liverpool parade crash trial – latest: Paul Doyle admits deliberately driving into crowds of football fans

   Paul Doyle, 54, admitted 31 offences at Liverpool Crown Court over the incident at Liverpool FC’s victory parade

3. The White Lotus star Natasha Rothwell: ‘Often health and wellness are conflated with being thin’

   The American actor talks to Sara Keenan about looking after her mental and physical health in the world of Hollywood.

4. Live: Chancellor Rachel Reeves expected to hike taxes in Budget

   Ms Reeves is widely expected to pull the lever on tax hikes in order to fill a black hole in the public finances as she delivers her second budget.

5. Kremlin confirms US envoy’s visit amid Ukraine peace talk momentum

6. Huge fire rips through Hong Kong apartment building killing four – latest

   Live feed from scene shows firefighters dousing fierce flames at Tai Po high-rise complex

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8. The final words of heroic Navy sailor who died saving the lives of two swimmers are revealed

   Jeffrey Diaz saved his two children before he drowned off the coast of Hawaii

9. Departing Department of Justice staff leave brutal notes ripping Trump and Bondi for causing ‘irreversible damage’

   One of the former DOJ employees said that workers at the Justice Department are being forced to “put loyalty to the president over the Constitution, the rule of law, and their professional ethical obligations."

10. Ryan Garcia ‘ready to beat up’ Conor Benn as he eyes UK showdown