• Runner, 29, training for half-marathon was electrocuted by a low hanging cable, inquest hears
• Asylum crisis deepens as court backlog more than doubles in a year to nearly 70,000 cases (and guess who's footing the bill!)
• Police called as council meeting descends into chaos after Reform UK race row
• MPs and peers could sit over Christmas break to pass workers' rights overhaul after Starmer's latest humiliating defeat in the Lords
• Prince William contacts Kevin Sinfield amid calls for knighthood 'ban' to be overturned