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Father ‘wants answers’ after five-month-old son was fed now-recalled Nestle baby formula

A father whose son needed hospital treatment after being fed a now-recalled batch of Nestle baby formula has told Sky News he wants “answers” after putting his “faith and trust” in the brand. The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has said it found cereulide, a toxin that can cause vomiting and diarrhoea, in batches of […]

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Prison officer told inmate ‘I’m literally praying to have your babies’, court hears

A prison officer told an inmate “I’m literally praying to have your babies” and she smuggled contraband materials into jail for him, a court has heard. Charlotte Winstanley, 27, was in a “romantic and intimate” relationship with gang member Jabhari Blair, 30, for three years, Sheffield Crown Court was told. The judge, Jeremy Richardson KC,

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Drones delivering drugs and weapons to prisons in ‘new era’ as organised gangs profit

Specialised gangs piloting drones to fly drugs and weapons into prisons are working up and down the country to “beat” the system, the governor of HMP Manchester has told Sky News. The Category A prison, formerly known as Strangeways, has previously been described as having “ceded” its airspace to illegal drone operators, who are using

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Starmer hails China reset a success – but not everyone is convinced

Keir Starmer describes himself as a “British pragmatist” who takes a “common sense” approach. When it comes to global affairs, and domestic ones too, he isn’t one to grandstand, he’d rather try to get things done. That has been the entire tenor of his three-day visit to China as the former human rights lawyer-turned prime

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Accidentally freed sex offender jailed for punching and biting police officers

A convicted sex offender who was accidentally freed from jail has been sentenced to 26 weeks in prison for punching and biting two police officers. Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, was at the centre of a nationwide manhunt after he was mistakenly released from HMP Wandsworth, south west London, on 29 October last year. The Algerian asylum

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Marines on training exercise rescue stranded climber in freezing conditions on Ben Nevis

Marines on a training exercise saved the life of a stranded climber who had begun to succumb to exposure on Ben Nevis in freezing conditions. The team found the man curled up in the snow near the summit of the Scottish mountain on 24 January, as temperatures plunged during a blizzard. The rescue squad consisted

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Queen pays respect to longstanding friend Dame Jilly Cooper at memorial

The Queen was among a list of well-known faces who paid their respects to Dame Jilly Cooper at a memorial in London on Friday. The legendary author died unexpectedly in October at the age of 88 from injuries sustained from a fall. On Friday, stars from the film, sport and literary worlds turned out to

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Gupta steel empire dismantling continues with Hartlepool pipes sale

The dismantling of Sanjeev Gupta’s British business empire is accelerating after advisers were hired to find a buyer for a steel production business which supplies oil giants including BP and Shell. Sky News has learnt that Liberty Steel’s Hartlepool-based steel pipes unit, which employs about 170 people, is hunting a buyer within weeks. Industry sources

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Kidlington fly-tipping: Two men arrested over rubbish dumped in Oxfordshire field

Two men have been arrested in connection to the illegal dumping of thousands of tonnes of rubbish in Oxfordshire. Police officers working with the Environmental Agency (EA) arrested a 69-year-old in Andover and a 54-year-old in Slough on Thursday as part of an investigation into large-scale fly-tipping near Kidlington. The men have been arrested on

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