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A man has been charged with murder after a parcel delivery driver was killed during an alleged theft of a van. Mark Ross, 32, of Armley is due to appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court on Friday morning. Claudiu-Carol Kondor, 42, from Sheffield, was pronounced dead at the scene in Heights Drive, Wortley, on Tuesday evening after his silver Ford Transit Cargo van was stolen in Alliance Street while he was […]

For many, it's felt a bit like autumn this week, with spells of wind and rain. But will this change just in time for the bank holiday?Sky News' weather producer Jo Robinson predicts a rather unsettled and cool tone for the long weekend, but it won't be a washout for all. As Storm Lilian sweeps across the UK - the 12th named storm of the season - two yellow weather […]

An 11-year-old girl who was stabbed in London's Leicester Square has had her dream of seeing Taylor Swift perform come true.The girl suffered serious injuries when she was attacked in front of her 34-year-old mother at the popular West End tourist spot on the morning of 12 August. A court was previously told that a man had approached the girl, placed her in a headlock and stabbed her eight times.She […]

Police have issued an urgent appeal to find two dogs that may have been involved in a man's death in the West Midlands.A photo of one of the dogs has been released after officers found the man dead in the back garden of a property in Rubery in the early hours of Thursday. Two dogs were seized, but two others that may also have been there are missing.Police believe the […]

HMP Wandsworth was found to have "81 points of failure" in the wake of an alleged prisoner escape, a report has said.Daniel Abed Khalife is accused of breaking out of the Category B jail on 6 September last year, and allegedly used bedsheets to strap himself under a food truck to make his escape. The former soldier was arrested three days later and has pleaded not guilty to escaping from […]

Vessels like Mike Lynch's stricken superyacht are "unsinkable", according to the chief executive of the firm which makes and sells them.Giovanni Costantino, CEO of The Italian Sea Group, told Sky News there are no flaws with the design and construction of the Bayesian superyacht which capsized in a storm off the coast of Porticello, Sicily, on Monday.Five bodies were found by divers on Wednesday - taking the number of confirmed […]

Standing on the top floor of the house where he used to live, Pete Best is staring up at a cluster of framed photographs. Now 82, he's looking back at a younger version of himself. One, with dark hair in a leather jacket, is sitting in front of a drum kit. The three men who stood beside him are easy to recognise - his former bandmates, George Harrison, Sir Paul […]

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for strong winds as gusts of 60mph could bring "dangerous conditions" to parts of the UK.Areas in northern Wales, northern England and southern Scotland can expect the extreme conditions on Thursday from 1am until 9am. There is already another yellow warning for heavy rain in western Scotland, which came into force on Wednesday morning and will run until 8am on Thursday.Forecasters […]

BBC presenter Lauren Laverne has revealed she is undergoing treatment for cancer.The star, 46, who presents Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 and has been a regular DJ on BBC channels for many years, thanked her doctors and family as she explained what had happened in a post on Instagram. Sharing the news while in hospital, she wrote: "I recently had a cancer diagnosis. It was (thank God) caught early […]