Pagination not working with "pretty" url structure ?

Hi all,

I’m creating a theme and have added pagination support to it, and it appears to work perfectly when using the “default” permalinks setting:

https://*********.co.uk/?page_id=55&paged=2 for example,

but when I’m using a custom structure of the format “/%category%/%postname%” such as:

https://*********.co.uk/news/page/2

it simply returns my 404.php template when I try to go to another page, but the default page with no parameters displays fine:

https://*********.co.uk/news/

I’m using a custom WP_Query to get items of my custom post type “news” to display on a page.

Code for the query is as follows:

$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'news',
	'post_status' => 'publish',
	'posts_per_page' => 2,
	'paged' => $paged
);
$news_query		= new WP_Query($args);

I’ve var_dumped the $paged variable on my 404.php template and it’s returning “int(0)” but when I dump it on the page-news.php template using the “default” Permalinks structure page is being returned correctly.

So it appears when switching to the custom Permalink structure that my “$paged” variable is no longer being correctly retrieved from the URL.

Any advice / pointers would be greatly appreciated.

– Jack