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The spokesman said: "The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised Cheshire Police to charge a healthcare professional with murder in connection with an ongoing investigation into a number of baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
"Lucy Letby, of Arran Avenue, Hereford, is facing 8 charges of murder and 10 charges of attempted murder. The charges relate to the period of June 2015 to June 2016.
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"The 30-year-old was re-arrested on Tuesday 10 November and has since subsequently been charged."
A police station in north London had to be evacuated after a car crashed into the building.
The crash happened shortly before 19:00 GMT in Edmonton. An eyewitness reported seeing a man then pouring petrol over the car and setting it alight.
Footage, posted on social media, shows a vehicle partially embedded in the entrance of the building. The Met Police said the car was being examined.
A man in his 40s has been arrested on suspicion of arson and other offences.
Both the London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade were called to the crash on Fore Street.
Police said officers were still at the scene but an earlier cordon had been reduced and staff had returned to the station. No injuries have been reported.
"At this time this remains a local investigation but is being supported by counter-terrorism officers," the Met added.
Enfield Council leader Nesil Caliskan had earlier described the crash as a "major incident" and urged people to avoid the area.
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Store manager Ogur Mazlum, 34, witnessed the moment the car crashed into the building.
His wife Serife Mazlum said: "He literally just walked out (of his shop) to just call me and see if everything's OK at home.
"Then he said I have to shut the phone quickly... that was when the car crashed into the front of the police station."
#Enfield Met Police say at 6:58pm a vehicle collided with the station office at #Edmonton Police Station.
A man has been detained in connection with the incident.
The vehicle remains at the scene. Specialist officers are in attendance while it is examined.
Mrs Mazlum said her husband, who speaks limited English, saw that the car had crashed through an exterior glass entrance to the police station and a man was trying to get through a second barrier.
"He was insisting on trying to get inside, but the glass door wouldn't break anymore so he couldn't get any closer," she added.
"Then he casually got out of the car with a tank of petrol. He poured it down from the car into the middle of the road and then he just set it on fire."
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Video footage of the immediate aftermath shows police officers tackling the man and putting out the flames.
Mrs Mazlum said another man watching the scene from across the street ran to intervene after the driver had set the fuel alight.
"He pinned [the driver] to the ground just as the police was arriving," she added.
"So by the time the police came and got out of the cars the citizen had already slammed him to the ground."
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he had been in "constant contact" with Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick about the incident.
Writing on Twitter, he said: "I'm grateful to the police officers and other emergency services who brought the situation under control and continue to investigate the incident."
Mrs Mazlum said her husband, who speaks limited English, saw that the car had crashed through an exterior glass entrance to the police station and a man was trying to get through a second barrier.
"He was insisting on trying to get inside, but the glass door wouldn't break anymore so he couldn't get any closer," she added.
"Then he casually got out of the car with a tank of petrol. He poured it down from the car into the middle of the road and then he just set it on fire."
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Video footage showed a man pouring a liquid onto a road and, while standing in front of a double-decker bus, lighting it on fire moments after the car crashed into the police station.
Witnesses can be heard shouting as a police car pulls up and officers run out to tackle the man at a bus stop metres away.
Another police officer appears to use a fire extinguisher to put out the flames on the road.
Man is arrested 'after driving car into north London police station' as video shows officers tackling suspect to the ground and fighting FIRE in the street outside
Footage shows officers tackling a man outside Edmonton Police Station
A car is seen jutting out from side of the building which has now been sealed off
Separate as-yet unverified videos show a man pouring a liquid on to the tarmac
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A man has tonight been arrested after a car ploughed into a north London police station - and footage showed the road outside being doused with petrol and set alight.
Witnesses captured the moment officers tackled a man to the ground outside Edmonton Police Station on Fore Street at around 7pm.
Separate and videos believed to be taken shortly before the arrest show a man pouring a flammable liquid on to the street and sending it up in flames in front of horrified onlookers.
Scotland Yard has said the police station has now been evacuated and sealed off by a large cordon.
Fire and ambulance crews scrambled to the scene but no injuries have yet been reported.
Witnesses captured the moment officers tackled a man to the ground outside Edmonton Police Station on Fore Street at around 7pm
Videos show a man pouring a clear flammable liquid on to the tarmac before sending it up in flames in front of horrified onlookers
A car is seen jutting out from the side of the building which has now been sealed off by a police cordon
A flurry of footage recorded by witnesses and posted to social media shortly after 7pm chronicle the man's dramatic arrest.
Video shows a moderate blaze raging on the road outside the police station where traffic has stopped.
Officers are seen bundling out of a marked police car and racing after a man, who is then detained and pinned to the ground by three constables.
Police yell 'stay back' and battle the flames using extinguishers grabbed from their car.
The front of the vehicle is pictured wedged inside the police station's glass doors, which appear to have been smashed open.
Peter Allimadi, 30, from Edmonton, who works in Whitehall, said he heard 'shouting, a loud crash and sirens from everywhere'.
He said: 'I came out of the Lidl to see what the commotion was about, police screaming instructions to citizens to back away, some scared shoppers, commuters and parents running from the scene.'
Unverified footage shows officers tackling a man to the ground outside Edmonton Police Station on Fore Street, which sources say has been evacuate
Scotland Yard said: 'At around 18:58hrs on Wednesday a vehicle collided with the station office at Edmonton Police Station.
'A man - no further details - has been detained in connection with the incident.
'The vehicle remains at the scene. Specialist officers are in attendance while it is examined. At this stage we have not been informed of any injuries.
'London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade are present. The police station has been evacuated and a large police cordon is in place.'
A London Fire Brigade spokesperson said: 'We were called at 7pm to reports of a vehicle that had gone into a building.
'The incident in still ongoing and we are assisting the Metropolitan Police, who are leading on this incident.'
Councillor Ergin Erbil tweeted: 'Reports of major incident declared at Edmonton Green police station. If you're in the Fore Street area stay safe and be careful.'
Unverified footage shows a cordon outside Edmonton Police Station on Fore Street, which has been evacuated, according to sources
Boris Johnson has branded Donald Trump the "previous president" and hailed his "refreshing" conversation with successor Joe Biden.
Mr Trump is continuing to claim he won last week's US presidential election and has made multiple unsubstantiated claims of fraud.
But the prime minister consigned Mr Trump's presidency to the history books on Wednesday, as he told MPs of his "excellent" phone call with Mr Biden.
Image:The PM held a 25-minute call with Joe Biden on Tuesday. Pic: Andrew Parsons/Number 10
Mr Johnson said he agreed with the US president-elect that their two countries should "once again" co-operate on various global issues.
Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson told the House of Commons: "One of the many merits of the excellent conversation I had yesterday with president-elect Joe Biden was that we were strongly agreed on the need for once again the UK and the US to stand together to stick up for our values around the world.
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"To stick up for human rights and stick up for global free trade, to stick up for NATO, and to work together in the fight against climate change.
"It was refreshing, if I may say, to have that conversation and I look forward to many more."
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Mr Johnson added he was "delighted" that Mr Biden and his incoming vice-president, Kamala Harris, shared "many areas" of "common cause" - including next year's climate change summit in Glasgow.
"I had and have a good relationship with the previous president - I do not resile from that," the prime minister said.
Image:Boris Johnson said he would 'not resile' from his good relationship with Donald Trump
"It is the duty of all British prime ministers to have a good relationship with the White House.
"But I'm delighted to find the many areas in which the incoming Biden/Harris administration is able to make common cause with us.
"In particular, it was extremely exciting to talk to president-elect Biden about what he wants to do with the COP26 summit next year, in which the UK is leading the world in driving down carbon emissions and tackling climate change."
Speaking later during a visit to a Tesco distribution centre in southeast London, the PM said it was a "return to the kind of business we are used to doing together".
"Sticking up for democracy around the world, human rights, free trade, NATO - Joe Biden is a very strong believer in the transatlantic alliance and indeed the special relationship - and above all climate change," Mr Johnson said.
The PM held a 25-minute phone call with Mr Biden on Tuesday.
They talked about the importance of implementing Brexit in such a way that upholds the Good Friday Agreement, with the prime minister assuring the president-elect that would be the case.
The Internal Market Bill - the government's controversial Brexit legislation that ministers have admitted will allow them to break international law - was not understood to have been raised specifically in the call.
Mr Biden has previously warned against the Good Friday Agreement becoming a "casualty" of Brexit.
Downing Street on Wednesday said that Mr Johnson hadn't raised the case of Harry Dunn during the call with Mr Biden.
But the prime minister's spokesman added: "It wasn't discussed last night but sure we'll be having further discussions in the coming months.
The number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK has passed 50,000, according to government figures which highlight the devastating impact of the virus on the country.
A further 595 deaths were announced on Wednesday, bringing the country's total to 50,365.
It marks a significant moment in the pandemic for the UK, which has been one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19 with Europe's highest recorded number of deaths.
Since the first cases in the UK were confirmed in late January after the outbreak began in China, tens of thousands of British families have faced the pain of losing loved ones from the disease - and the country has endured months of restrictions on our daily lives.
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The government has also faced criticism over its handling of the crisis, with care homes ravaged by the virus and questions over whether the country entered lockdown too late in March.
The tragic stories of coronavirus deaths in the UK have included the oldest known victim, 108-year-old Hilda Churchill who had survived the Spanish flu pandemic, and the youngest victim; a 13-day-old baby.
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The UK's first coronavirus death is thought to have occurred on 30 January when 84-year-old Peter Attwood, from Chatham in Kent, died in hospital.
It was initially believed he died from heart failure and pneumonia before a coroner reportedly confirmed Mr Attwood had coronavirus in his lung tissue and listed his cause of death as COVID-19.
Image:Peter Attwood is thought to have been the UK's first coronavirus death in January
After a national lockdown was introduced in March, the country saw the heartbreaking reality of coronavirus restrictions at the funeral of 13-year-old Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab.
The youngster, from Brixton, south London, died alone in hospital after contracting COVID-19. His family could not be there to bury him in April as they were forced to isolate after two of his siblings began displaying symptoms.
Image:The family of 13-year-old Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab could not attend his funeral
Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong, 28, was admitted to Luton and Dunstable University Hospital on 7 April where she worked and died five days later.
Image:Nurse Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong died after contracting COVID-19
Chris Cadby was hit by a double tragedy after his wife Julianne died with coronavirus just four days after her mother Joan's death was linked to the disease.
Following their deaths, he revealed his seven-year-old son Evan asked him: "Who's next Daddy? Is it going to be you or is it going to be me?"
Image:Julianne Cadby and her mother Joan Bartlett died just four days apart
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Connor Reed was the first known Briton to contract coronavirus last December after working at a school in Wuhan, China, where the outbreak originated.
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After the number of coronavirus deaths passed 50,000, Boris Johnson said "every death is a tragedy" and "we mourn everybody who's gone".
"It is a global pandemic whose effects, whose treatments, whose implications for the economy, all those have been becoming clear and clearer as the months have gone on," the prime minister added.
A further 22,950 cases of coronavirus were also announced on Wednesday, bringing the UK's total to 1,256,725.
Despite the government's latest death figures, in reality the UK probably passed the 50,000 deaths mark a while ago.
The government's data includes people who have died within 28 days of testing positive for COVID-19.
But separate figures published by the UK's statistics agencies - which include deaths when COVID-19 has been mentioned on the death certificate - show there have now been 65,000 fatalities involving coronavirus in the UK.
It comes after the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said in March that keeping the number of UK deaths below 20,000 would be a "good result" from the pandemic.
With coronavirus deaths rising again in the UK, the government hopes a vaccine can start to be rolled out in December after one in development was found to be 90% effective in preventing people from getting the virus.
