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An initial tranche of 19 photos was shared on Friday, and all of the people whose faces had not been redacted were identified by Sky News. They have been contacted for comment.

A second batch of dozens of photos was released the same day, including one of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and another of Epstein himself in the bath.

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The photos were shared by House Oversight Committee Democrats, who said they are reviewing more than 95,000 images from the estate.

There is no suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of those pictured in the images released on Friday and the context surrounding the photos is not known.

Mr Barak told the New York Times this week: "I now deeply regret having any association with him.

"However, not any point in my dealings with him I did ever witness any improper behaviour and certainly I never participated in anything like that."

In one image, Mr Trump is seen with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Belgian model Ingrid Seynhaeve.

Two further photos show the US president with women whose faces are redacted.

One image is black and white and shows him with six women; three on either side of him. The other is out of focus, and shows him sitting alongside an unidentified woman.

Speaking after Epstein took his own life in jail in 2019, Mr Trump admitted knowing Epstein, but added: "I had a falling out with him. I haven't spoken to him in 15 years. I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you."

In July, the White House also released a statement saying Epstein had been banned from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for acting like a "creep".

When asked about the latest release of Epstein material at the White House on Friday, Mr Trump said he "knows nothing about it" and that the disgraced financier "has photos with everybody".

In another photo released by Democrats, Bill Clinton is seen with Epstein and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as singer Jimmy Buffett and Mr Buffett's wife Jane Slagsvol.

In 2019, a spokesperson for the former US president said he had "not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade" and "knows nothing about the terrible crimes".

Further images show Epstein with long-time Trump ally, Steve Bannon. In one he sits across from him at his desk, while in another the men are seen side-by-side taking a selfie in a mirror.

Mr Bannon appeared again in the later batch of images, photographed alongside Noam Chomsky, an American professor perhaps best known for his political activism.

Hollywood filmmaker Woody Allen appears in four photos; two of them taken with Epstein.

In another, Allen is photographed with Mr Bannon, while one more shows him sat with Bill Clinton's former treasury secretary, Larry Summers, and his wife Elisa New, seemingly on a private plane.

Speaking to The Times in September, Allen said he had been to dinner at Epstein's home, but suggested he was unaware of the nature of his crimes.

Allen said: "He told us he'd been in jail and that he had been - I can't remember the word - but that he'd been falsely put in jail in some way."

Meanwhile, Mr Summers told the Harvard Crimson that his former association with Epstein was "a major error of judgement".

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, then Prince Andrew, is seen just once, alongside tech billionaire Bill Gates. Epstein is not pictured. The original photo at a malaria summit also shows the then Prince Charles but he is cropped out of the version released by the Democrats. It is not clear why the picture has been included in the Epstein files.

Andrew relinquished his titles in October amid continued controversy over his friendship with Epstein, but said at the time: "I vigorously deny the accusations against me".

Mr Gates himself appears twice more, once alongside Epstein's long-time pilot, Larry Visoski, and once in a framed photo which appears in an image above a black cabinet.

In 2021, the tech billionaire told the New York Times he had met Epstein to discuss philanthropy and Gates's spokeswoman said he regretted ever meeting him.

The following year Mr Gates told the BBC: "I made a mistake ever meeting with Jeffrey Epstein.

"Any meeting I had with him could be viewed as almost condoning his evil behaviour. So, that was a mistake."

Another photo shows British entrepreneur Richard Branson with Epstein and Dean Kamen, an American engineer, inventor, and businessman.

Epstein is seen with his lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, in one more image.

Mr Dershowitz said he fell out with Epstein after making a plea deal for him in 2007, leading to his conviction.

He told the Harvard Crimson in November: "Jeffrey Epstein despised me after I had made the deal. Epstein and I did not get along personally after I represented him and helped get the deal."

Emirati businessman Ahmed bin Sulayem is also among those pictured, appearing twice in the second cache of photos.

A number of images of a sexual nature appear in the first cache.

One shows a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump's face, each one bearing the phrase "I'm HUUUUGE!" A handwritten sign reads: "Trump condom $4.50."

Various sex toys are also featured in pictures, including a glove with ribbed fingers, and a safety notice from a "jawbreaker" gag warning of the risk of injury or death.

Many of the newer batch of photos appear to show parts of Epstein's properties, including a toilet, various service areas, and a small beachfront construction project.

Among the photos are several additional images which are thought to be from the disgraced financier's private island, Little Saint James, showing a dental suite previously seen in an earlier release of pictures.

The images, obtained from the Epstein estate, were released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee in a bid to pressure the US Justice Department to release the full Epstein files.

President Trump signed a bill in November compelling the department to release case files within 30 days, in a U-turn after he opposed the bill for months. The end of that window is Friday 19 December.

The images released on Friday were described by Democrats as being "of the wealthy and powerful men who spent time with Jeffrey Epstein" and "photographs of women and Epstein properties".

A spokesperson for the Republican-led House Oversight Committee accused the Democrats of "cherry-picking photos and making targeted redactions" to create a "false narrative" about Donald Trump.

"Democrats' hoax against President Trump has been completely debunked," they added.

In a televised address, Charles said his "good news" was "thanks to early diagnosis, effective intervention and adherence to doctors' orders".

"This milestone is both a personal blessing and a testimony to the remarkable advances that have been made in cancer care in recent years," he added.

"Testimony that I hope may give encouragement to the 50% of us who will be diagnosed with the illness at some point in our lives."

The King announced in February 2024 that he had been diagnosed with cancer and was beginning treatment.

The monarch postponed all public-facing engagements, but continued with his duties as head of state behind palace walls, conducting audiences and Privy Council meetings.

He returned to public duties in April last year and visited University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre in central London with the Queen and discussed his "shock" at being diagnosed when he spoke to a fellow cancer patient.

Sources suggested last December his treatment would continue in 2025 and was "moving in a positive direction".

The King has chosen not to reveal what kind of cancer he has been treated for. Palace sources have partly put that down to the fact that he doesn't want one type of cancer to appear more significant or attract more attention than others.

In a statement after the speech aired, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: "His Majesty has responded exceptionally well to treatment and his doctors advise that ongoing measures will now move into a precautionary phase."

Sir Keir Starmer praised the video message as "a powerful message," and said: "I know I speak for the entire country when I say how glad I am that his cancer treatment will be reduced in the new year.

"Early cancer screening saves lives."

Early detection can give 'the precious gift of hope'

His message on Friday was broadcast at 8pm in support of Stand Up To Cancer, a joint campaign by Cancer Research UK and Channel 4.

In an appeal to people to get screened for the disease early, the King said: "I know from my own experience that a cancer diagnosis can feel overwhelming.

"Yet I also know that early detection is the key that can transform treatment journeys, giving invaluable time to medical teams - and, to their patients, the precious gift of hope. These are gifts we can all help deliver."

Charles noted that "at least nine million people in our country are not up to date with the cancer screenings available to them," adding: "That is at least nine million opportunities for early diagnosis being missed.

"The statistics speak with stark clarity. To take just one example: When bowel cancer is caught at the earliest stage, around nine in ten people survive for at least five years.

"When diagnosed late, that falls to just one in ten. Early diagnosis quite simply saves lives."

Minor inconvenience of screening 'a small price to pay'

The King acknowledged that people often avoid screening "because they imagine it may be frightening, embarrassing or uncomfortable". But, he added: "If and when they do finally take up their invitation, they are glad they took part.

"A few moments of minor inconvenience are a small price to pay for the reassurance that comes for most people when they are either told either they don't need further tests, or, for some, are given the chance to enable early detection, with the life-saving intervention that can follow."

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Giving his "most heartfelt thanks" to doctors, nurses, researchers and charity workers, the King added: "As I have observed before, the darkest moments of illness can be illuminated by the greatest compassion. But compassion must be paired with action.

"This December, as we gather to reflect on the year past, I pray that we can each pledge, as part of our resolutions for the year ahead, to play our part in helping to catch cancer early.

"Your life - or the life of someone you love - may depend upon it."

During an eight-week trial at Newcastle Crown Court, the four Romanians and an Albanian were found guilty of 31 charges involving six victims between 2014 and 2019 in October.

The girls, aged between 13 and 15, were sometimes plied with alcohol or cocaine before they were sexually abused and raped.

The court heard the victims were targeted by teenage boys, just a few years older than them, with the girls sometimes thinking they were in a relationship, before older men exploited them.

The gang were jailed on Friday for between 18 months and 14 years.

The court heard some of the offending centred around Saltwell Park where the men would meet to play football.

During sentencing remarks, Judge Tim Gittins paid tribute to all the victims' courage and resilience by coming forward.

'Nothing less than haunting'

He described a statement from one of the victims, who was sexually exploited after becoming addicted to cocaine, as "nothing less than haunting" after the men "deeply traumatised her and psychologically scarred her".

She said she was "petrified of all men". She added: "I don't know if I will ever lead a normal life."

Another victim said in a statement: "I was naive and impressionable, and it made it easy for me to be preyed upon."

The court also heard another victim describe the control her attacker had on her.

"It was like he had a spell on me... it was like I was held hostage and had to play a role."

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Senior Investigating Officer Detective Chief Inspector Graeme Barr, of Northumbria Police, thanked the victims for their "composure and dignity".

"This was a complex investigation which took time to piece together and establish the extent of the horrific offending.

"The girls had their childhood snatched from them in the cruellest of ways by predators who targeted them as vulnerable members of our community."

Jailed for up to 14 years

Four Romanians, all with addresses in Gateshead, were sentenced on Friday:

Bogdan Gugiuman, 44, was jailed for 14 years for rape and supplying a class A drug.

Codrin Dura, 27, received a sentence of 13 years after being found guilty of rape, sexual activity with a child, blackmail, attempted rape, serious sexual assault, supplying a class A drug and arranging or facilitating commission of a child sex offence.

Leonard Paun, 23, was jailed for five years and one month for rape, arranging or facilitating commission of a child sex offence, sexual activity with a child, sexual assault, supplying a class A drug and distributing photos of a child.

Stefan Ciuraru, 22, who was found guilty of four counts of sexual assault, sexual activity with a child and causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. He was jailed for 18 months.

In addition, Albanian Klaudio Aleksiu, 28, from Windsor, was jailed for six years for rape.

The sentencing took into account that Aleksiu, Dura, and Paun were all juveniles at the time of offending.

A sixth man was found not guilty of all charges he faced.

The judge added that the men's nationality was "irrelevant to the sentencing process" but pointed out that "the information the court has is you all came to this country legally, most as children, and have stayed legitimately".

Robert Rhodes killed his estranged wife, Dawn Rhodes, by slitting her throat with a knife at their family home in Redhill, Surrey, in June 2016. The couple's marriage had broken down and he had filed for a divorce.

He was previously found not guilty after a trial at the Old Bailey in 2017, where he convinced jurors that he had acted in self-defence during an argument.

It has since emerged that this was a "cover-up", after the couple's child came forward with new evidence that Rhodes killed Ms Rhodes, and they were involved in the murder too.

In 2021, the child, who was under the age of 10 at the time of the murder, told police they had been manipulated into lying about the true version of events by their father.

Both Rhodes and the child were found with knife wounds at the scene, which were initially claimed to have been inflicted in an attack by Ms Rhodes.

The child's new account stated that after Rhodes killed his wife, he inflicted two wounds to his scalp before instructing the child to inflict two more on their father's back. He then cut his own child's arm so deeply that it required stitches under general anaesthetic.

Under the double jeopardy rule a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime, unless new and compelling evidence comes out after an acquittal or conviction for serious offences.

On Friday, jurors at Inner London Crown Court convicted Rhodes of murder and child cruelty.

He was also found guilty of perverting the course of justice and two counts of perjury.

Rhodes will be sentenced on 16 January.

Surrey Police told Sky News that the child, who was of primary school age at the time and is below the age of criminal responsibility, was "groomed" by Rhodes into lying.

The child told police that during supervised contact with Rhodes in 2016 and 2017 - while he was on bail after being charged with murder - he had told them that they had "got some things wrong" and continued to give them instructions to stick to the plan.

Rhodes even hid a phone at his mother's house for when the child visited, on which he would leave messages for the child.

Detective Chief Inspector Kimball Edey said: "During the first trial, Dawn was portrayed as the villain but had actually been a victim of domestic abuse and coercive control at the hands of her husband for years.

"The fact that Rhodes not only murdered his wife in cold blood but then manipulated and groomed his own child to play a part in his evil scheme and cover-up what he had done is simply despicable - not only did he take a life; he irreparably damaged another, as well as the lives of everyone else who loved Dawn."

The Crown Prosecution Service said "the child's part in the plan was that they would distract the mother by saying to the mother 'hold out your hands, I've got a surprise for you', and the child would then put a drawing into the hands of the mother".

Rhodes then cut his wife's throat. She was found lying face down in a pool of blood in the dining room.

Libby Clark, specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service's south east area complex casework unit, said the child showed "great bravery and strength" in coming forward with the truth.

She said: "The child has grown up with the dawning realisation, I would say, that they were part of a plan. They were complicit in the murder of the mother, Dawn Rhodes."

Ms Rhodes's family paid tribute to the "loving daughter, sister and mother".

"She was everything to us and he is nothing, she will be celebrated and he will be forgotten," they said.

"There are no words we can use to make sense of this horrific situation.

"We struggle to comprehend the mindset of an individual so twisted as to even contemplate this as a solution to his own unhappiness, implicating a child under 10 in the process."

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Legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg said there are "very few cases" where a retrial like this happens.

He said: "It's very unusual. I don't think there's been a case that I can think of where a witness who was present at the scene of the crime has come forward and given evidence, which has led to a conviction."

Yellow weather warnings for rain have been issued by the Met Office for the west of Scotland, Northern Ireland, parts of western Wales, and northwest England, with Scotland's alert until Sunday and the rest until Monday.

Check the forecast where you are

A more serious amber warning will be in effect in Cumbria from 6am on Sunday to 6pm on Monday, where the agency said more than 200mm of rain "is possible in some locations".

The Met Office said "fast flowing or deep floodwater is likely, causing danger to life", and "homes and businesses are likely to be flooded, causing damage to some buildings".

Jonathan Day, Environment Agency flood duty manager, said the likely heavy rain in Cumbria "means significant river and surface water flooding impacts are probable" and "are also possible more widely".

He added that the agency's teams "are out on the ground, taking action to reduce the impact of flooding and support those communities affected".

"We urge people not to drive through flood water - it is often deeper than it looks and just 30cm of flowing water is enough to float your car," he also said.

Floods minister Emma Hardy also urged people in affected areas to follow local advice, sign up for flood warnings, and stay up to date with the latest information.

According to the Met Office, some areas of northwest England will continue to see showers until late Monday afternoon, while elsewhere, the southern half of the UK will be dry and bright, with much lighter winds.

Cloudless skies, patches of frost, mist and fog are expected in the south of England on Saturday morning, and Sunday is set to stay dry for many.

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There will be more clouds, followed by the band of rain, slowly moving southeast through Sunday night and into Monday.

Sky's weather producer Kirsty McCabe reports that the "unsettled and mostly mild theme will continue for a while yet, but southern parts could escape with a mainly fine weekend".

She said: "It'll be windy in the north too, with coastal gales likely, locally severe. Temperatures will be mostly above average, but where skies remain clear overnight, frost and fog are possible."

Ms McCabe also noted that "high pressure is likely to build in the run up to Christmas - so it could be colder, drier and more settled".