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A new portrait of the Queen to appear on coins will be unveiled next week ahead of it appearing in people's pockets.

The new portrait and its designer will be announced on Monday at a ceremony in London and it will begin to appear on UK coins from then onwards, the Royal Mint has said.

However the new coins may take a short time to filter through into people's change as they tend to be delivered to cash centres and banks in the first instance.

A "worrying" number of teenagers have thought about hurting themselves after viewing images of self-harm online, charities have warned.

A survey of 2,000 11-21 year olds found more than half aged 11-14 had felt like self-harming after viewing the images.

Some 60% admitted to sharing pictures of people self-harming on social media while 80% of those aged 18-21 said they had self-harmed or knew someone who had.

The survey was carried out by ChildLine, YouthNet, selfharmUK and YoungMinds.

One in five workers are losing £6,000 a year by doing unpaid overtime, new figures show.

The TUC said workers put in nearly £32bn-worth of free hours last year.

People in their 40s are most likely to do unpaid overtime, with 26% putting in unpaid hours, compared to 20% of all UK workers, the figures showed.

Education was found to benefit from the most free work, with more than one million people doing unpaid overtime.

The TUC called for employers to ensure their staff were not working excessively long hours.

Close friends of 'Jihadi John' say he left London for Syria because he felt increasingly frustrated at being unable to return to his home country of Kuwait.

Souad Mekhennet, one of the two Washington Post journalists who identified the Islamic State executioner as Mohammed Emwazi, said his friends had told her he felt he was not treated fairly by the security services.

MI5 has not commented on allegations that they prevented Emwazi from travelling abroad after attempting to recruit him.