A man who stabbed a nine-year-old girl outside her mother’s embroidery shop has been jailed for a minimum of 25 years. Deividas Skebas, 26, stabbed Lilia Valutyte in the heart as she played with a hula hoop in Boston, Lincolnshire, on 28 July 2022. Skebas, a Lithuanian who has schizophrenia and told police he was […]
Reddit has been fined more than £14m by the Information Commissioner’s Office for failing to keep children safe. It is the largest fine ever handed out by the information watchdog over children’s privacy issues. An investigation by the data protection watchdog found the US company used children’s information unlawfully. A statement from the ICO said
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The BBC has confirmed that a second racist slur was edited out of the BAFTA ceremony broadcast, but admitted the first was missed and “aired in error”. Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson, who was attending the awards ceremony after inspiring the film, I Swear, which dramatises his life with severe Tourette syndrome, has said he’s “deeply
A former head gamekeeper has been found guilty of the shotgun murder of an ex-colleague. David Campbell, 77, coldly gunned down Brian Low, 65, on a remote track near Aberfeldy, Perthshire, in February 2024 and used his wife’s e-bike to flee the scene. Campbell was handed a life sentence with at least 19 years in
GP practices are set to receive bonuses of up to £3,000 a year for prescribing weight loss jabs to patients. The NHS began its mass rollout of weight loss injections last summer, but most of the estimated 2.4 million Britons taking the drugs access them privately. As part of a bid to improve access to
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Jersey has voted to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults, becoming the second of the British Isles to do so after the Isle of Man. Members of the States Assembly voted in May 2024 in favour of drawing up laws for an assisted dying service in the Crown Dependency. The vote on Thursday, after
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A baby boy has become the first child in Britain to be born to a mother with a womb transplanted from a deceased donor. Hugo Powell was delivered by caesarean section in December, weighing 6lb 13oz (3.1kg), at the Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, in London. Only two
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A Ukrainian family denied asylum in the UK was told by the Home Office that they could relocate within Ukraine and their daughter should wear noise-cancelling headphones to prevent panic attacks. They are one of several families Sky News has spoken to who have been told they do not qualify for asylum in the UK
At least 21 police forces across England are still using Copilot AI despite West Midlands Police (WMP) blocking Microsoft’s tool after inaccurate evidence formed a decision to ban Israeli football fans, Sky News can reveal. The Birmingham force turned off access to the software after admitting, following initial denials, that a Copilot “hallucination” was responsible
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The Mexican authorities would’ve expected a violent backlash after the killing of El Mencho, one of the country’s most powerful cartel bosses. But it’s likely they’ll have been surprised at the scale of violence across so much of the country. That violence appears to have calmed down for now, but there’s nothing to indicate it
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