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Preparations for the festive season are the last thing on the residents of our favourite soap’s minds next week, with December getting off to quite a start!

Peers expressed their ‘annoyance’ at being unable to get a late-night drink at a parliament bar.

Some people on benefits are now eligible for a £25 payment to help stay warm.

Today’s news summary – Paper Talk: Royals named & tributes to Alistair Darling Friday’s newspapers report on the aftermath of a new royal book. Many of the papers’ lead pictures pay tribute to Shawn MacGowan, the Pogues singer, or Alistar Darling, the former Labour chancellor, who died yesterday. Royal scandal continues Several papers have named two senior royals – Charles and Kate – as being the two royals who speculated about Prince Harry’s son’s skin colour. The Daily Mirror reports Buckingham Palace is furious over Omid Scobie’s Endgame. The paper quotes a Palace source: “The entire Royal Family is united…

Your weekly EastEnders picture gallery, previewing episodes airing from Monday, December 4 to Thursday, December 7.

Jeff and Goody had two children together.

Britain was lucky to have Alistair Darling NS says There was a kind of grim symmetry. As the inquiry into the Covid pandemic turned its attention to Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson, the death was announced of a very different figure, who had steered Britain through a very different crisis – though one almost as serious. It is hard to imagine a politician more different from the performative, self-indulgent antics of Johnson’s Downing Street than Alistair Darling. Here was a man who listened intently, respected experts and institutions, but who brought a bracing dose of scepticism to every conversation. In…

Alistair Darling: Westminster stunned by shock death of canny chancellor who steered UK through financial crash Sky News says In life as well as in politics, Alistair Darling was a canny Scot. At a dinner with Sky News journalists when he was chancellor, I told him I’d just bought a new car. “Never buy a new car,” he told me. “They depreciate in value immediately. Buy one that’s a few months old.” Sound advice, no doubt. But it demonstrated how the nation’s finances were in good hands. Like many leading politicians of the Blair-Brown years, Alistair Darling started on the…

A surprising choice.

Former chancellor Alistair Darling dies aged 70 The Guardian says Leaders from across the political spectrum have paid tribute to the former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling, who stewarded the economy through the 2008 crash, after his death at the age of 70. A statement issued in Edinburgh on behalf of Darling’s family said: “Alistair Darling, the much-loved husband of Margaret and beloved father of Calum and Anna, died after a short spell in Western General hospital under the wonderful care of the cancer team.” Darling was an Edinburgh MP from 1987 until he stepped down from parliament in 2015, and…