Chaos at the heart of government and a failure to take Covid-19 seriously cost 23,000 lives in the first wave of the pandemic, a public inquiry has concluded.

The 22-year-old Real Madrid star began his career at St Andrew’s, while Blues’ new ground will not be finished until the 2030/31 season.

The former first minister and a small group of ministers and advisers met and made decisions outside the Cabinet.

Jeff Kinney, whose series has sold 300 million books around the world, said he hoped to inspire children to become writers.

Princess Diana returned to Paris on Thursday as one of Europe’s oldest wax museums unveiled a new figure of the British royal in the so-called “revenge dress”, decades after her tragic death in the ...