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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Proposed compensation for victims of “unethical testing” at a college, leaving them with HIV and hepatitis, has been branded “ridiculous” by a charity. Between the 1970s and early 1990s more than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis after being given contaminated blood and blood products in what was dubbed the
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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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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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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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)
“I’d rather not do this. I’d rather I was left to grieve, but I’m stuck in a tunnel and I can’t get out.” Warning: This story contains descriptions of parents finding their children unresponsive that some readers may find upsetting. Liam Walsh’s daughter Maia died three years ago. She was 13 when she was found
Donald Trump has been presented with a Nobel Peace Prize medal by Maria Corina Machado, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, who won the award last year. Speaking to reporters outside the US Capitol after her meeting with the president, Ms Machado said she gave the medal to Trump. She told Sky’s US correspondent James
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