“It’s like starting life again,” says Wayne Birkett, who suffered life-changing injuries in a killing spree which left three people stabbed to death. “I’ve had to learn to read and write and use a phone.” Now, he’s decided to speak out as a public inquiry approaches. “Someone’s got to take the blame for this man […]
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Kanye West has denied he is a Nazi and taken out a full-page advert in the Wall Street Journal to apologise for antisemitic comments. In the full-page advert, titled ‘To Those I’ve Hurt’, the controversial star insisted he was not asking for “sympathy or a free pass”. Instead, the artist now known as Ye, said
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The British operations of Claire’s, the accessories retailer, have collapsed into administration just four months after their last brush with insolvency, putting more than 1,000 high street jobs at risk. Sky News understands that insolvency practitioners from Kroll were formally appointed as administrators to Claire’s UK and Ireland earlier on Monday. It comes three weeks
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The UK has lost its measles elimination status from the World Health Organisation (WHO) after vaccination coverage plateaued and cases surged. From 2021 to 2023, the country was considered to have “eliminated” the disease, but global health officials say measles transmission was re-established in the UK in 2024. Vaccination coverage has flatlined in recent years,
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AI and robotics are to be used to help detect lung cancer in a “trailblazing” scheme that experts are calling “a glimpse of the future of cancer detection”. It comes alongside NHS plans to expand lung cancer screening, with all eligible people invited for their first check by 2030. In addition, AI software will be
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A former prison officer who had a sexual relationship with an inmate has been jailed for three years. Alicia Novas, 20, was an officer at HMP Five Wells in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and had “failed to consider the seriousness” of her actions. Judge Rebecca Crane said two videos of Novas “having sexual intercourse in her prison
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Ellen Roome began campaigning for a change in the law after her 14-year-old son died. She couldn’t understand why her teenage boy, Jools, was no longer with her. “When Jools took his own life, we assumed we’d turn up at the inquest and be told why and what happened,” Ms Roome previously told Sky News.
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A consumer tech rental service which has struck partnerships with Apple, Dyson and Sony’s PlayStation brand has landed £30m in new financial backing and an alliance with LG, the Korean electronics giant. Sky News has learnt that Raylo, which was founded in 2018, will announce on Tuesday that the American financial services giant Citibank has
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A schizophrenic man stabbed a nine-year-old girl through the heart while she was playing in the street, a murder trial has heard. A jury heard that Deividas Skebas killed Lilia Valutyte as she played close to where her mother was working in Boston, Lincolnshire, on 28 July, 2022. Skebas, 26, denied murdering Lilia but admitted
The remains of the last Israeli hostage in Gaza have been found. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said in a statement it had retrieved the body of police officer Ran Gvili and that his family had been informed. Identification of the remains was confirmed by the National Institute of Forensic Medicine, in cooperation with the
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