Brendan Nelson, the new chairman of HSBC Holdings, will be among the business leaders who travel to China with Sir Keir Starmer next week as the prime minister tries to reset Britain’s relationship with Beijing. Sky News has learnt that Mr Nelson, who only took over as the bank’s permanent chair last month, will be […]
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Asylum seekers have started moving into a military training camp in East Sussex despite opposition from the local council and residents. A total of 27 single male migrants have been moved into Crowborough Army Camp, the Home Office has announced. It will eventually house more than 500 for up to three months at a time
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A boat carrying 25 French tourists has capsized off the coast of Oman, killing three, local police have said. The three tourists drowned when the boat tipped over two-and-a-half nautical miles from Oman’s capital city of Muscat. Royal Oman Police said a tour guide and a boat captain were also on the ship. Two tourists
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One of the UK’s biggest energy providers is to compensate more than 11,000 customers, most of them vulnerable, for failing to pay electricity bill discounts on time. Ovo, the country’s fourth largest gas and electricity supplier, was more than 19 months late making the warm home discount payments and so has been ordered by energy
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Donald Trump says “a lot of great people” want to join his Board of Peace – but some world leaders are clearly worried the controversial initiative could undermine the United Nations. Originally envisioned as a small group that would oversee the ceasefire in Gaza, it has morphed into something far more ambitious. On a stage
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A major storm forecast to bring strong winds, heavy rain and snow across much of the UK on Tuesday has been named by The Met Office as Storm Chandra. Flooding and travel disruption is likely in places, with significant snow expected across higher ground in some northern areas. The Met Office has issued an amber
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The brewery group behind brands such as Black Sheep and Fourpure is to be rescued from the brink of collapse by Saltaire Brewery, a Yorkshire-based rival. Sky News has learnt that the future of Keystone Brewing Group, which has filed a series of notices of its intention to appoint administrators in recent weeks, is close
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, is set to appear before a US congressional committee next month. The British former socialite, who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for sex trafficking, will appear virtually before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on 9 February. Committee chair James Comer said
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European governments and their diplomats here in Washington are as relieved as they are exasperated by this extraordinary Greenland show and latest act which played out in the Swiss Alps over the past 24 hours. There is no “framework of a deal”. Not yet. Donald Trump may claim there is, but that’s only because he
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Water fights are supposed to be fun – but the anger, indignation, and exasperation in Tunbridge Wells mean this one will be feisty. “They have left us in water limbo,” organiser Jonathan Hawker told a packed bar of over 100 residents on Wednesday night. “And that’s no way to live in 2026.” It was the
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