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It's a frosty morning on Kidsley Farm in Derbyshire, a rare thing in this unusually warm winter. Andrew Dakin's beef herd is housed in the old brick barns, their breath steaming in the chill air. Alongside scuttling chickens and tractors of varying vintages, this is the very image of a traditional farmyard. But for how long? Andrew is a tenant farmer and his landlord, who owns the land, wants to […]

Solar farms in the UK only account for 0.1% of land – that's less than that of golf courses. But, as the government aims to meet its clean energy targets, more agricultural land is being lost to solar panels. On this episode of ClimateCast, Tom Heap visits farmer Andrew Dakin, whose family have farmed the same land for 94 years, but now, his landlord is selling up to make room […]

Sir Paul McCartney has been reunited with his bass guitar, on which he strummed the famous tunes Twist And Shout and She Loves You for The Beatles, after it went missing more than 50 years ago. The Hofner 500/1 bass, which is now estimated to be worth £10m, went missing in 1972. It was allegedly stolen from the back of a van in Notting Hill, London.Its whereabouts were unknown for […]

Lucy Frazer, the culture secretary, has urged English football's 92 professional clubs to resolve their differences over an £800m-plus financial settlement as the government prepares to launch plans to establish the sport's first independent regulator.Sky News has learnt that Ms Frazer held separate talks with Premier League and English Football League (EFL) club executives this week, during which she told them not to wait until the new watchdog is established […]

It has been a stonking night for Labour - winning two more by-elections in safe Conservative seats on substantial swings.The momentum of last year's gains in Tamworth, Selby and Ainsty, and Mid Bedfordshire, which some in the party had feared would stall, has continued to accelerate in the first tests of the general election year. Tories crash to new postwar low with double defeat - live updatesOf course, by-elections can […]

Two boys, both aged 15, have been arrested on suspicion of murder over the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old boy in Bristol on Wednesday evening.The 16-year-old, who has not been named, was attacked in the St Philips area, in Rawnsley Park.He ran to Stapleton Road - where a driver helped him - before he collapsed on West Street.Ambulances were called but he died at the scene, police said. Image: Rawnsley […]

The boss of Formula One's Red Bull team says it's "business as usual" as he denied an allegation of "inappropriate behaviour" in his first public comments since the accusation emerged.The claim, which has been made against Christian Horner by a female colleague, surfaced early last week. An investigation by the Red Bull Racing's Austrian parent company Red Bull GmBH continues into the allegation and Horner remains in his roles as […]

Financial firms have been warned to watch out for junior members of staff being recruited or compromised by organised crime gangs wanting to make money from insider trading.The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued the advice after three men were arrested on suspicion of insider dealing and money laundering "linked to organised crime". The regulator revealed that the trio, which included two men aged 52 and another aged 53, had been […]

The London Overground is being rebranded and divided into six lines with their own names and colours.It currently appears on the Tube map as a sprawling orange network that some say has become too tricky to navigate. The six lines will be renamed Mildmay, Liberty, Suffragette, Weaver, Lioness and Liberty.London Mayor Sadiq Khan said they celebrate "different parts of London's unique local history and culture".Mildmay references a Shoreditch hospital that […]