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Food and drink exports from the UK have plummeted due to a sharp drop in trade with the EU after Brexit, according to fresh research published today. Data from the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) shows overall UK exports of food and drink slid £2bn in the first half of this year.

Will the horrific NYC floods force a change to Biden’s new fuel economy rules. We have all seen the floods in New York, the destruction of Hurricane Ida and the Wildfires in California, If anyone didn’t believe it before, climate change is here, the time to act is now.

JD Sports has said it is “perplexed and disappointed” by concerns over its planned takeover of sports goods rival Footasylum. 

More than 30 California children are stuck in Afghanistan after they traveled to the country to see their relatives weeks before the Taliban seized power.

Sixty-five members of the Iran-backed Houthi militia and pro-government forces have been killed in renewed fighting for the strategic Yemeni city of Marib.

Alexander Lukashenko was quoted by the Belta state news agency as saying that Russia will soon deliver a big military hardware consignment to Belarus.

Mancester City defender Benjamin Mendy will remain in custody as he awaits a potential trial on rape charges after his bail application was refused by a judge.

UK house prices rose by almost £5,000 in August as the property market continued to boom following the partial end to stamp duty holiday.

A picture of the last US soldier to leave Afghanistan, boarding a plane, is on several of Wednesday’s front splashes. Several of the tabloids front pages discuss the ‘miracle vaccine to stop heart attacks and strokes’ and a picture of Geronimo the alpaca features heavily.

A threat of heavy rain and flooding continues as hurricane Ida, now a tropical depression Ida moves northeast into Tennessee, Ohio and the Mid-Atlantic.