A man has been taken to hospital and six men were arrested after a shooting in Manchester city centre, police say. Officers were called to an address in Richmond Street around 5am on Saturday following reports of a disturbance. After arriving at the location, they found a man with a leg injury “consistent with a […]
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Andy Burnham has said he has sought permission to enter the selection process to run as a candidate for the Labour Party in the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election. The Greater Manchester mayor said on X: “I have today written to the Chair of Labour’s National Executive Committee seeking permission to enter the selection process
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Police officers in England and Wales must hold a work licence or face the sack, the Home Office has announced. Officers must also renew the Licence to Practise over the course of their career. The plans, which come as part of reforms set to be announced by the Home Office, are designed to teach officers
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Firefighters are battling a blaze on the top two floors of a high-rise building in New York City. The fire, which started in the early hours of Saturday morning local time spread to multiple flats, according to a statement from the New York City Fire Department. More than 200 fire and emergency personnel were working
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Britain’s largest operator of private hospitals is in talks with a pack of buyout firms about a takeover that would result in it becoming the latest FTSE-250 company to disappear from the London stock market. Sky News has learnt that private equity firms including Bridgepoint and Triton Partners are exploring bids for Spire Healthcare Group,
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Donald Trump has praised “very brave” British soldiers who served in Afghanistan after fierce criticism of his claim non-US troops had stayed back from the frontline. He said Britons “were among the greatest of all warriors” as he acknowledged the 457 who died and many “badly injured”. “The GREAT and very BRAVE soldiers of the
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A senior Iranian official has warned that the country will treat any attack “as an all-out war against us” ahead of the arrival of a US aircraft carrier strike group and other assets in the region. The warning and surge in US military presence comes almost two weeks after Donald Trump urged Iranian protesters –
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When Dr Ronan Lee spoke to members of the Rohingya community, he heard “blood-curdling accounts” of killings and sexual violence allegedly carried out by Myanmar’s security forces. They described how hundreds of villages were burned to the ground, with Myanmar‘s military treating Rohingya males “as fair game for extermination”, the author and academic said. Thousands
Ukraine says the Paralympics should not have lifted its ban on Russia – disputing its claim it is no longer clear that sport is being used to promote the war. Only Russians entered as neutrals are allowed at the upcoming Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. But the Paralympics could now see athletes from Russia and war ally
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Steve Coogan says he doesn’t want to fully be part of the British establishment because you cannot “get rid of the history which weighs heavily on all of us”. The 60-year-old actor is of Irish heritage – his mother was born in Ireland and so were his paternal grandparents. He tells Sky News during an
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