A man has been jailed for 29-and-a-half years for murdering his wife after their child revealed they were coerced into a plot to help him kill her. Robert Rhodes refused to attend his sentencing – because he maintains his innocence. Addressing this directly Judge Mrs Justice Ellenbogen said the defendant had now added “cowardice” to […]
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You almost had to see it to believe it. Kemi Badenoch’s team could have chosen anywhere in Scotland to hold their media event on Friday morning. On Thursday, they picked a whisky distillery to talk tough on the cameras in the wake of Robert Jenrick’s alleged scheming and plotting with Nigel Farage. Conservative Party leader
Britain’s first ever self-flying full-sized helicopter has taken to the skies. The autonomous chopper is designed for treacherous high-risk missions and will be used by the Royal Navy to track submarines across the Atlantic. It comes amid rising geopolitical tensions and will be crucial to defending Britain and its NATO allies, the Navy says. The
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Rachel Reeves’s plans to curb cash ISA limits with the aim of fuelling a wave of stock market investing “are doomed to fail”, the boss of one of Britain’s biggest retail investment platforms has warned. Sky News has learnt that Michael Summersgill, chief executive of AJ Bell, which has more than £100bn of client assets
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Anthony Joshua has returned to the gym for some “mental strength therapy” – weeks after a car crash which killed two of his close friends. The former world heavyweight champion, 36, was travelling in the back of a black SUV last month when it struck a stationary truck on a major road near Lagos in
A teenager who was inspired by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced after he planned an attack on an Oasis concert. McKenzie Morgan, from the village of Llanfrechfa near Cwmbran in South Wales, can be named for the first time after he turned 18. He has been detained for 14 months after admitting at
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Actor Timothy Busfield, who starred in the hit shows The West Wing and Thirtysomething, has been charged with child sex abuse. The Emmy Award-winning actor, 68, made his first court appearance on Wednesday over allegations he sexually abused two boys on the set of a television series. Busfield appeared remotely via a video link from
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Two people have died in a house fire in north London. Fire crews were called to a blaze on the ground floor of a semi-detached property on Albemarle Road in Barnet shortly before 1.45am on Friday. A man and woman, both aged 90, were removed from the house in London‘s north by firefighters but died
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Labour MPs expect a “politically inept” U-turn from the government on banning social media for under-16s amid Conservative plans to force a vote on the issue. Dozens of Labour MPs are pushing ministers to adopt an Australia-style ban, Sky News has been told. Politics Live: Sacked Tory defector Robert Jenrick speaks at Reform event Many
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Over a third of the local councils offered a delay to their elections in May have requested one, Sky News analysis shows. Twenty-four councils have confirmed to Sky News they have written to the government asking their local elections be postponed by a year, citing the resources needed to deliver the local government reorganisation (LGR)