Brighton ended a six-match winless run with a comfortable home victory over second-bottom Burnley.

Georginio Rutter gave Brighton a first-half lead before Yasin Ayari doubled the advantage early in the second period. Loum Tchaouna came close to halving the deficit, but Scott Parker’s struggling side remain six points adrift of Nottingham Forest in 17th after their wait for a league victory stretched to 11 games.

Duffy, believed to be UK’s longest-living former MP, survived a plane crash in Scotland during second world war

The former Labour MP and defence minister Sir Patrick Duffy has died aged 105 after a short illness, a family friend has said.

He died on 2 January and is believed to have been the UK’s longest-living former MP.