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• Fire crews work through night to tackle recycling site explosion after lightning October 3, 2023
  The lightning strike set a tank at a food waste site on fire, sending a large fireball into the sky.
• Jade Ward: Pride of murdered woman's family over law change October 3, 2023
  Jade Ward's family welcome a law change which will see parental rights stripped from murderers.
• Boy struck by lightning at Hertford school football match October 3, 2023
  A boy, 12, and a man are hit by lightning at a school football match in Hertfordshire.
• Jermain Defoe 'appalled' by Sheffield Wednesday fan who mocked Bradley Lowery's death October 3, 2023
  Ex-Sunderland player condemns Sheffield Wednesday fan who mocked boy's death.
• Food prices in first fall for two years as stores battle for customers October 3, 2023
  Competition among supermarkets led to the first monthly drop in food prices since 2021, an industry body says.
• Leicester: Face masks mandatory again in parts of city hospitals October 3, 2023
  The move has been prompted by a rise in patients testing positive for Covid, senior medics say.
• Mum fears her son could die waiting for life changing surgery October 3, 2023
  A mother tells BBC Spotlight she fears her son could die waiting for life changing surgery
• Evergrande: Shares in crisis-hit property giant jump in market return October 3, 2023
  The embattled Chinese property giant's shares were suspended from trading on Thursday.
• The Papers: 'Tory rebellion' as Sunak 'brings axe down on HS2' October 3, 2023
  Concerns over the HS2 rail project's future dominate Tuesday's front pages.
• The Dumfries street that has flooded more than 200 times October 3, 2023
  What is it like living and working on the Whitesands in Dumfries where problems go back centuries?