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A teenage boy has been seriously injured after he was stabbed in Manchester.Police officers were called shortly after 4.15pm today to reports of a stabbing on Raby Street. The boy, whose age is not known, was taken to hospital with serious and life-threatening injuries.No arrests have been made and an investigation is now under way.Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said in a statement: "A scene remains in place on Raby Street […]

A third man and a woman have been arrested over a murder investigation in Dundee - taking the total number of people charged to four. Steven Hutton, 43, was found seriously injured inside a property on the city's Charleston Road at about 11.05pm on Saturday night. Mr Hutton was taken to Ninewells Hospital, where he died on Sunday.The death is being treated as murder following a post-mortem examination, with Police […]

A wartime hero has been honoured on his 100th birthday.Ronald Brignall was 16 years old when he saved Cardiff City Hall from destruction during World War Two. He carried a sandbag between his teeth, with another under his arm, while he scaled a drainpipe to douse the flames. Image: Ronald Brignall. Pic: PA Mr Brignall climbed back up the pipe with a fire hose, also gripped between his teeth, to […]

The UK is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel, Rishi Sunak has been warned.Three former Supreme Court justices are among over 600 lawyers and academics who have signed a 17-page letter to warn the present situation in Gaza is "catastrophic". The government has been facing growing calls to suspend arms exports to Israel after three British aid workers were killed in an airstrike. Image: John Chapman, Jim Henderson […]

Parts of the UK will experience warmer weather than Lisbon and the south of France this weekend as temperatures are set to surpass the highest set this year so far. Temperatures in the low twenties are expected in southeast England on Saturday, with a small chance of peaking at 24C - exceeding Madrid by one degree. It will beat the spike of 19.9C recorded in northwest Scotland in January, should […]

A Welsh town is "so excited" as town criers from across the world are set to descend for an international competition.Montgomery in Powys will host the annual Guild of Town Criers Championship this year. The event takes place on 17 September and will see town criers pitted against each other to win a silver cup.Sue Blower is Montgomery's town crier and is tasked with organising this year's event.She told Sky […]

The government has no national plan for the defence of the UK or the mobilisation of its people and industry in a war despite renewed threats of conflict, Sky News has learnt.With ministers warning that Britain is moving to a "pre-war world" amid mounting concerns about Russia, China and Iran, it can be revealed that officials have started to develop a cross-government "national defence plan". But any shift back to […]

Three suspects believed to be involved in the stabbing of an Iranian journalist left the UK a few hours after the attack, according to police.Pouria Zeraati, a presenter at London-based broadcaster Iran International, was stabbed in the leg outside his home in Wimbledon, southwest London, on Friday afternoon. The Metropolitan Police said the victim was approached by two men in a residential street before he was attacked.The pair then fled […]

England saw a record amount of rainfall in the year and a half leading up to last month, new figures show.According to provisional figures from the Met Office, 1,695.9mm of rain fell from October 2022 to March 2024. This is the highest amount of rain for any 18-month period in England since the organisation began collecting comparable data back in 1836.It beat the previous record of 1,680.2mm - which had […]