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England's poorest students will be more than 1,000 worse off this academic year than the last, according to a new analysis that warns of significant hardship for many this winter". My colleague Sally Weale has the story here.

Therese Coffey, the environment secretary, has said she expects the government's delayed nature and pollution targets to be published before Christmas.

My main focus frankly in the next three months is getting the environmental targets out and the environmental improvement plan, as well as the preparation for the most important conference of the year which is actually the CBD [Convention on Biological Diversity] in Montreal next month.

I really hope so, that's my intention. I'll be very disappointed if they aren't.