Eight areas across England are now in prolonged dry weather – the stage before drought.

Iran says it has hit two ships in the Strait of Hormuz as well as targets in Bahrain and Jordan.

Protesters are demanding Oleksandr Syrskyi be removed and former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov reinstated by Friday.

Joshua Kerry, 28, from Rotherham, in South Yorkshire, is charged with her murder and appeared in court.