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In tonight's 5pm briefing Prince Harry has vowed to appeal after losing a High Court battle with the Home Office over downgrading his police protection, Alexei Navalny’s grieving widow claims his body was abused after his death in an Arctic gulag, and Britain’s first leap-year quads are set to celebrate their ‘third’ birthday a dozen years after their premature birth...

TONIGHT'S TOP STORIES

Another High Court defeat for Harry

Navalny’s corpse ‘was abused after his death in gulag’, claims widow

4 cheers for leap-year quads

Tonight's other headlines

Defence: Labour pledges Armed Forces revamp to combat global ‘alliance of aggression’

Politics: Half of councils ‘will go bust in 5 years’

Home Affairs: Just stop, Gaza protesters told

Royals: Poignant last picture of Lady Gabriella and her late husband... on Valentine’s Day

Society: Falling out of love with wedding rituals 

Daily poll:  Should Prince Harry's security be funded by the taxpayer?

Listen: The Trial: Constance Marten and Mark Gordon

FEMAIL

The worst thing we can tell boys? Be more like girls!

Market watch: The latest news from the City

MAIL SPORT

Red Bull supremo Horner cleared

WHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT

Code 8: Part II

Tomorrow's news today

• Convention of the North in Leeds

• Global Terrorism Index 2024 report will be published

• Rochdale by-election

PICTURES OF THE DAY

Rhinos, crumbling cliffs, and Francis Bacon

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