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A man has admitted to urging a vulnerable woman to self-harm and to kill herself online.Warning: This story contains details of encouraging self-harm and suicide which some readers might find disturbingTyler Webb, 22, from King Street in Loughborough, Leicestershire, admitted to one count of encouraging suicide and one count of encouraging or assisting someone to seriously self-harm on Friday.He was the first person in the country to be charged with […]

Two men have been found guilty of cutting down the famous Sycamore Gap tree that stood for more than 150 years.Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were convicted of causing more than £620,000 worth of damage to the tree and more than £1,000 worth of damage to Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland. On 27 September 2023, the pair drove 30 miles through a storm to Northumberland from Cumbria, where they both lived, […]

Survivors of the Nottingham attacks have spoken for the first time about the devastating effect on their lives - with one saying she wishes she'd died instead of the two students.Sharon Miller and Wayne Birkett were among three people who survived when Valdo Calocane ploughed into them with a van he'd stolen from 65-year-old Ian Coates, after stabbing him to death.Calocane had already killed Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber as […]

VE Day with a packed diary was perhaps not the moment the prime minister would have chosen to announce he'd sealed a trade deal with Donald Trump.From the Trump news bomb dropped in the middle of the night about a deal being announced "with a big and highly respected country", to the hastily convened Oval Office-Jaguar Land Rover conference call, it was a substantial moment - months in the making […]

A Montessori nursery worker was caught on CCTV pinching, punching and grabbing babies as she "badly treated" 24 children in her care, a court has heard.Roksana Lecka, 22, allegedly assaulted or ill-treated 23 of the alleged victims while working at the Riverside Nursery in Twickenham Green, southwest London, between January and June last year. The nursery, which charged parents up to £1,900 a month to look after children aged between […]

A man has appeared in court, charged with murder after a stabbing inside a bank in Derby city centre.Haybe Nur Cabdiraxmaan, 47, from nearby Mickleover, was remanded in custody at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court on Thursday. Gurvinder Singh Johal, 37, died after he was stabbed inside a Lloyds bank on Tuesday, the Crown Prosecution Service said. Image: Police at the scene in St Peter's Street in Derby after the fatal […]

Donald Trump is set to announce that America will agree a trade deal with the UK, Sky News understands. A government source has told Sky's deputy political editor Sam Coates that initial reports about the agreement in The New York Times are correct. Coates says he understands a "head of terms" agreement, essentially a preliminary arrangement, has been agreed which is a "substantive" step towards a full deal.Three sources familiar […]

Arsenal are out of the Champions League after a 2-1 defeat in their semi-final second leg against Paris Saint-Germain.The Gunners went into the match 1-0 down after being edged out by the French side at the Emirates in the first game last week. Arsenal began Wednesday's clash hoping for a comeback against the team many rate as the best in Europe at the moment - and made a strong start.PSG […]

"Illegal drugs" have been found in staff lockers at Wales's largest hospital with "no consequences", a review has found.Reviewers heard examples of people behaving in a "dysregulated way", such as engaging in "outright criminal behaviour including theft and illegal drugs". A report published on Wednesday found female members of theatre staff at the University Hospital of Wales were unable to leave "anything of value in the changing room due to […]