An additional 39,074 people died in 2015, compared with the previous year. And the latest data shows that the trend continues.
After all the build up, you’d have been forgiven for expecting something a bit more impressive from parliament’s debate on triggering Article 50.
The government has cut £384m originally promised to schools in England amid a funding crisis in the education system.
The Liberal Democrats have ousted former Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith in the Richmond Park by-election, overturning a majority of over 23,000.
Stephen Phillips has resigned as Conservative MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham over “irreconcilable policy differences” with Theresa May’s government in the wake of the Brexit vote.