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Today, we look at a U-turn from the government, after the Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced plans to ease cuts to winter fuel payments.

More than 10 million pensioners lost out on the payments, worth up to 拢300, when the pension top-up became means-tested last year.

Adam and Chris Mason discuss with Starmer鈥檚 former political director Luke Sullivan.

Also, England will be the first country in the world to start vaccinating people against the STI gonorrhoea. Health and science correspondent James Gallagher explains what鈥檚 going on.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the 蜜芽传媒. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn and Laurie Kalus with Shiler Mahmoudi and Julia Webster. The technical producer was Ricardo McCarthy. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.