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Despite tax and National Insurance receipts increasing, they were outstripped by higher spending on public services, benefits and debt interest, the UK statistics body said.

“Mosquitoes thrive in hot weather, increasing the risk of bites and mosquito-borne diseases.”

Earlier this year, the NCA warned of an increasing threat from cyber criminal gangs based in the UK and other English-speaking countries, such as Scattered Spider.

Cdr Dominic Murphy, head of the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said the Met had seen an increasing number of people in the UK being recruited by foreign intelligence services.

Australia, like much of the world, has faced an increasing number of climate-related weather extremes in recent years including severe drought, historic bushfires and successive years of record-breaking floods.