Government U-turns on Plan to Scrap 45% Tax Rate; Man in Court Accused of Murdering Schoolgirl

The government abandons its plan to scrap the top rate of income tax, following a week and a half of political turmoil and the risk of a Tory rebellion. A 34-year-old man charged with the murder of the schoolgirl Olivia Pratt-Korbel has attended Liverpool Magistrates’ Court alongside a second defendant. Indonesian authorities are probing what led to a disastrous crush of fans at a football game, leaving at least 125 people dead, most of them trampled upon or suffocated.