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The animal’s fossil records date back 225 million years, predating the previously confirmed first mammal by approximately 20 million years.

With a fire roaring beneath the mantlepiece, the royal leaned on her now familiar walking stick as she greeted the new Conservative Party leader.

Senior advisers say the Government needs to focus on improving insulation in millions of homes and provide advice to the public on saving energy.

The duchess said Harry told her: ‘They’ve got it all wrong. I’m the lucky one because you chose me.’

The First Minister announced the measure as she outlined her Government’s plans for the coming year.

Edward Turpin was cleared of attempted murder and an alternative charge of wounding Mrs Turpin with intent.

The former Tory leader said he is happy to remain on the backbenches.

Prospect and FDA say new leadership brings a fresh opportunity to restore confidence that Parliament is a safe place to work.

The winner of The McIlvanney Prize 2022 will be announced on September 15.

Sussex Police is still appealing for information following the death of a 49-year-old man

Conservative MPs defended the Government’s response but pressed for swifter action.

The duchess named her son Archie and married redhead the Duke of Sussex.

Here the PA news agency looks at them in detail.

HMS Mersey has also shadowed Russian military research vessel Akademik Ioffe.

The Duchess of Sussex described her experience as ‘really hard’, saying in her podcast that she was ‘the smart one’ rather than the pretty one.

Adverts for The Hive and Lulu in Edinburgh, The Spiritualist and the Slug and Lettuce in Glasgow and Popworld in Leeds have all been banned.

Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy said instead of finding a solution over the summer, the Conservatives “ramped up the rhetoric on the protocol”.

There were 333 completed mergers and acquisitions between April and June, with just 72 deals during June.

The Government has still not revealed what it plans to do about bills this winter.

A plan to deal with soaring energy prices will be one of her first acts as Prime Minister.