Magic mouse scrolling problems

My magic mouse no longer scrolls up or down, and it cannot swipe forward and back on webpages either. Also, it randomly zooms in (without me pressing anything on the mouse). I have checked all the settings in the preferences and all the checkboxes are correct. This was all working fine up until about 2 weeks ago - not sure what's gone wrong. Can anyone help with fixing this - be much appreciated as it's driving me mad.
Thanks
Graeme

Get a USB mouse first of all
-then go into the bluetooth prefs
-removed the mouse
-re-add it then test it
-same issue
-then try a different user account
-if same issue is there test the mouse in recovery (CMD + R) it will look like setting the mac up again
-if issue happneds there the mouse is screwed - if it works then reinstall the OS

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