• One in ten to be hit with £3,000 council tax bills after Keir Starmer gives local authorities permission to raise it by nearly three times the rate of inflation
• Anthony Albanese's government reveals major changes to the way Australians pay - with one payment method set to be gone for good
• Poison pen letter sent to the Actors' Benevolent Fund's Dames Penelope Keith, Siân Phillips and Robert Bathurst warning 'you should be afraid' investigated by police
• Severed head of hero brother who saved sister from drowning washes up on a Florida beach
• Double murder investigation launched in Manchester after two men found stabbed to death in the street - as man is arrested by cops