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Sir Keir Starmer has avoided committing to considering scrapping the two-child benefit cap as he said there is "no silver bullet" to solving child poverty.A growing number of Labour MPs have been putting pressure on the prime minister to remove the cap introduced by the Conservative government which means families can only claim child tax credits or Universal Credit for their first two children. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told Sky […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to generate deepfake child sexual abuse images based on real victims, a report has found.The tools used to create the images remain legal in the UK, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWL) said, even though AI child sexual abuse images are illegal. It gave the example of one victim of child rape and torture, whose abuser uploaded images of her when she was between three […]

Six people - four adults and two children - have died in a crash between Wakefield and Barnsley.The collision, which involved a car and a motorbike, happened on the A61 Barnsley Road on Sunday afternoon. A motorcyclist and pillion passenger, one man and one woman, were confirmed dead at the scene.A man, woman and two children, one boy and one girl, who were travelling in the car, were also confirmed […]

Sir Geoffrey Boycott is "unable to eat or drink" after developing pneumonia following cancer surgery, his daughter Emma has said.The cricket legend, 83, had a procedure to "remove his throat cancer" on Wednesday. Following the three-hour operation, the surgeon reported it "went well", Emma Boycott said.He was discharged on Friday with "lots of pain meds and a liquid only diet for the foreseeable".Her father was "on the mend", Ms Boycott […]

A Treasury minister has said there is a cost to not striking a deal on public sector pay in the face of reported proposals for inflation-busting wage hikes costing billions of pounds.But speaking on Sky News' Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips, James Murray insisted the Labour government's fiscal rules were "non-negotiable" as he refused to be drawn over whether Chancellor Rachel Reeves would meet the floated increase of 5.5% recommended […]

Nail bars and car washes will be targeted by immigration officers as they step up enforcement action over the summer, the home secretary has announced.Yvette Cooper said 1,000 civil servants working on the now-abandoned Rwanda scheme will staff a new "returns and enforcement programme". Writing in the Sun on Sunday, she said the programme will "increase returns of those with no right to be here and to make sure rules […]

A man has been charged with arson and violent disorder after a bus was set on fire during riots in Leeds on Thursday night. He was named as Iustin Dobre, 37, and will appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court on Monday. A further five people were arrested on suspicion of violent disorder on Saturday and remain in police custody, West Yorkshire Police said.On Friday, the force promised to "leave no stone unturned" […]

Travellers around the world are facing a second day of chaos in the aftermath of Friday's global IT outage. Here, Sky News looks at what you can do if you're affected by the disruption. Air passengers Friday was meant to be one of the busiest days of the summer as families jetted off on holidays at the end of the school year.But more than 300 flights to and from the UK […]

A five-year-old boy has been able to leave his home for the first time in six months after he received a stem cell transplant made from a baby's umbilical cord blood which was donated in 2008.Gunner Lewis-Vale, from Shropshire, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder in March 2021, when he was about 17 months old. At the time, his parents Holly and Jamie Lewis-Vale, both 34, were told that […]