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Fantasy Football Hub tech provider Scoreline nets funding boost

The sports technology group behind Fantasy Football Hub has scored a multimillion pound funding boost from a syndicate of investors. Sky News understands that Scoreline, which counts the Sky Sports football pundit and former Manchester City defender Micah Richards among its investors, will announce a $6m (£4.5m) fundraising later this week. The funding round has […]

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‘Major risk’ to global economy from increased tariffs, IMF says

Higher levels of tariffs and increased geopolitical threats are a “major risk” to the global economy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. It comes as US President Donald Trump is once again threatening to raise taxes imposed on imports, this time against eight European countries for not supporting his plan to take over the

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Robert Jenrick ‘told Kemi Badenoch to kick Liz Truss out’ of the Conservatives

Robert Jenrick claims he told Kemi Badenoch to kick former prime minister Liz Truss out of the Conservative Party because of her “cackhanded” mini budget. The former shadow justice secretary, who defected to Reform last week, told Sky News Mornings with Ridge and Frost that Ms Badenoch’s refusal to do so was one of the

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Boy, 12, and man critically hurt in Sydney after three shark attacks in two days

Two people, including a 12-year-old boy, are reported to be critically ill after separate shark attacks in Sydney, the third incident in two days. The boy had been jumping ​off rocks with friends late on Sunday ​afternoon, off Shark Beach in Vaucluse, when he was bitten. Police said he was pulled from the ‌water by

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Defection of Tory MP Andrew Rosindell to Reform leaves Kemi Badenoch in an uncomfortable position

Andrew Rosindell has become the second Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK within a week. The MP for Romford, Essex, announced on Sunday evening he had decided to resign from his position as a shadow foreign office minister in Kemi Badenoch’s frontbench and as a member of the Conservative Party. The move came after

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Greenland issue the most serious crisis in transatlantic relations in decades – where do we go from here?

Keir Starmer had wanted this week to get on with his “cost of living tour” of the country to tap into voters’ concerns in this all-important election year. Donald Trump’s Greenland threat obstructed that: Over the weekend, the prime minister and his team have been locked in talks in Downing Street, and with European allies,

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Hillsborough Law debate withdrawn after backlash from campaigners and MPs

The government has pulled an amendment to its proposed Hillsborough Law amid concerns from campaigners and some MPs that intelligence agencies could use it to “hide serious failures” from the public. It has also withdrawn the legislation from Monday’s parliamentary agenda entirely after initially planning for its report stage and third reading to go ahead and then bring

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Water supply issues for thousands in Kent days after week-long outage

Thousands of people in Kent are once again experiencing water supply issues days after similar disruption. An estimated 4,500 properties in several rural areas around Maidstone and hundreds more in Tunbridge Wells are experiencing little to no water, South East Water (SEW) said. The company put the issues down to an electrical fault at a

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