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Rishi Sunak is set to finalise a new Northern Ireland protocol deal with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Windsor today. The PM will then head to parliament to “begin his trickiest task yet”, says Politico: selling the agreement to Eurosceptic Tory MPs. As ever, “the devil will be in the detail”. The legal age of marriage has risen to 18 in England and Wales. People aged 16 or 17 were previously able to wed as long as they had “parental consent”, a rule campaigners said was being abused to facilitate forced marriages. The northern lights were visible as far south as Cornwall and Kent last night. The arctic aurora is usually seen only in northern Scandinavia and Canada, but a strong solar flare on the Sun’s surface meant more charged particles travelled farther from the Earth’s poles. Southern stargazers may catch another glimpse if the skies are clear tonight.