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Around 590,000 people aged over 65 in the UK won't see or speak to anyone on Christmas Day and 1.4 million will eat dinner on their own, new figures show. Age UK says loneliness and social isolation are year-round problems but particularly tough over the festive period when one in 10 older people will be alone on 25 December. For Rose Hayes, this Christmas will be particularly difficult as it is her first without her husband, who died in February.
Two journalists and a police officer are reported to have been killed, with others injured in the attack.