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A medical student who lost all four limbs due to sepsis has called on people to get the meningitis vaccine to help prevent them going through a similar ordeal.Lily McGarry was rushed to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff with flu-like symptoms in January before her condition rapidly worsened and she went into septic shock.The 23-year-old was diagnosed with meningococcal septicaemia, a type of blood poisoning caused by the […]

Police are investigating after partial human remains were discovered in Wisbech. Officers were called to Lynn Road, Walton Highway, at 8.30am on Sunday morning following reports human bones had been found by a member of the public.Norfolk Constabulary has said a police cordon is in place while officers carry out enquiries. Source link

The wife of a former Conservative councillor has lost an appeal against her 31-month prison sentence for an online rant about migrants on the day of the Southport attacks. The judgment handed down by Lord Justice Holroyd at the Court of Appeal on Tuesday said there was "no arguable basis" that Lucy Connolly's original sentence was "manifestly excessive". "The application for leave to appeal against sentence therefore fails and is […]

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a teenager died in what police have called a "targeted attack" in Bury.Greater Manchester Police said in a statement that officers were called to an incident between a vehicle and a pedestrian on Porritt Street.Officers found a 19-year-old man lying in the road with serious injuries on Monday evening."Despite the best efforts of the emergency services, the man sadly died," […]

Britain should have access to the EU's rearmament fund before the end of the year but "wounds of Brexit" mean some member states want it to be limited, the bloc's foreign affairs chief has said.Kaja Kallas told Sky News' political editor Beth Rigby that the "technical details" of Security Action for Europe (SAFE) still need to be sorted out. SAFE is a €150bn (£126bn) fund to provide loans to EU […]

A telecoms worker who created AI-generated images of child sex abuse has been sentenced.Risto Bergman, 42, who is originally from Finland, used a legitimate artificial intelligence app to make indecent images of young girls being abused. Scotland's Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) said the images were "so realistic" that they could be taken for authentic photographs.Bergman was said to have used sexually descriptive search terms while using the […]

A man involved in a plot to steal £4.75m gold toilet from the house where Sir Winston Churchill was born has been handed a suspended sentence.The fully functioning 18-carat gold artwork, titled America, was stolen from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire during the early hours of 14 September 2019. In March, Frederick Doe, 36, was found guilty of conspiracy to convert or transfer criminal property.On Monday at Oxford Crown Court, Judge […]

Britain may need anti-subversion laws to counter threats from states determined to undermine democracy, a government watchdog has said.Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of state threat legislation, is due to report this week on using counter-terrorism laws against state interference. Mr Hall was asked by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to review whether there were elements of counter-terrorism legislation which could be emulated to address state-based security threats last December.In […]

Gary Lineker is to leave the BBC after this season's final Match Of The Day and will no longer present its coverage of the World Cup, Sky News understands.It comes after he "apologised unreservedly" for a social media repost featuring a rat - used in propaganda by Nazi Germany to dehumanise Jewish people - and said he would "never knowingly share anything antisemitic". Lineker's last appearance on the BBC will […]