Prime Minister Andy Burnham has told the BBC that PC Andrew Harper’s killers will remain behind bars as he announces changes to the early release scheme aimed at easing prison overcrowding. 

In an exclusive interview with BBC Breakfast, Burnham said anyone convicted of manslaughter will be excluded from changes brought in under the Sentencing Act, which would have made the killers eligible for early release. 

Burnham said extra prison spaces would be created by deporting “hundreds” of foreign prisoners and releasing some inmates serving indefinite sentences. 

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Twenty-seven people have been killed and almost 400 evacuated after a Russian strike hit a warehouse near Kyiv, triggering a fire and a series of explosions.

Regional governor Tymur Tkachenko said a further 42 people, including four children, were injured after the Russian drone strike in the Bucha district.

An investigation has been launched into whether ammunition was being stored at the site, where search and rescue operations were ongoing early on Saturday.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said in a statement that its forces had targeted “an ammunition depot” in the Kyiv region village of Myla, which stores “components and launch boosters for FP-1/FP-2 long-range unmanned aerial vehicles”.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of the strike, saying that more than 300 emergency respondents had been deployed to the strike area.

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Norway’s King Harald V has died at the age of 89, after he was taken to hospital last week for treatment for a rare blood condition.

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At least 17 people were killed in the latest round of Russian missile and drone attacks, officials in Ukraine have said.

The country is seeing a surge in the number of civilian casualties, as Russian strikes exploit weaknesses in Ukraine’s air defence systems.

Capital city Kyiv was targeted in the recent strikes, along with cities in the east of the country.

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Every time you order clothes, groceries or household essentials online, there’s a chance an autonomous robot helped out.

Inside warehouses across the world, fleets of autonomous robots are changing the way orders are picked, packed and dispatched. Much of this technology is being developed in China.

Tech Now’s Suranjana Tewari heads behind the scenes of Geek+, the world’s largest supplier of autonomous mobile warehouse robots.

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