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Kazakhstan’s long-serving leader Nursultan Nazarbayev has been re-elected to office with an extraordinary 95 per cent of the vote following a snap presidential election.

Leading figures from politics, police and sport, from both sides of the Northern Irish border joined together to mourn murdered Catholic PSNI officer Ronan Kerr in Omagh.

Councils have called in bailiffs to reclaim money owed for unpaid parking fines and council tax bills from nearly six million people in the past three years.

The Government’s controversial – and rushed – National Health Service reforms were put “on hold” this week just as the Health and Social Care Bill ended its committee stage in the House of Commons.

The police officers’ union, the Police Federation, was accused of self-interested scaremongering when it published a controversial advert using violent imagery to warn of the consequences of 20 per cuts in police budgets.