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The Met Office says a storm is set to hit the UK next week - and has named it Storm Floris.According to forecasters, the storm is set to bring "unseasonably strong winds" to the UK on Monday, along with "heavy rain". Northern areas of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are set to be the worst-hit areas, according to the Met Office, with a yellow warning in place.The warning is valid […]

Hollywood actor Brian Cox has told Sky News that Donald Trump is talking "bollocks" after suggesting there should be 50 or 75 years between Scottish independence referendums.The US president said a country "can't go through that too much" when questioned by reporters during his visit to Scotland this week. The Emmy-winning star, who is an independence supporter, has hit back, branding him "that idiot in America".The 79-year-old told Sky News: […]

The number of drone incidents in prisons rose by 43% in a year, according to new government data. In the 12 months to March, there were 1,712 drone incidents at prisons across England and Wales, compared to 1,196 the year before. The latest figures represent "a new peak". The ingress of drones into prisons, carrying drugs and weapons, has become an increasing problem for the prison service.In the same dataset, there […]

A former Labour minister has said she wants Rachel Reeves to consider the "evidence" behind introducing a wealth tax in the UK.Anneliese Dodds, who quit as international development minister in February over Sir Keir Starmer's decision to slash the overseas aid budget, said she believed it was "important" that the government considers "who has the broadest shoulders". Politics latest: Starmer accused of 'appeasement' by NetanyahuSpeaking to Beth Rigby on the […]

Two more people have been arrested in connection with the murders of great-grandparents who died in an arson attack at their home in St Helens.Eric Greener, 77, and Sheila Jackson, 83, died after the blaze in the early hours of 15 July.On Thursday, Merseyside Police said that a 33-year-old man from Aigburth was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and possession of cannabis.He has been taken to a police […]

Food inflation will rise to 6% by the end of the year - posing a "significant challenge" to household budgets in the run-up to Christmas, industry leaders have predicted.The British Retail Consortium is warning that the chancellor risks "fanning the flames of inflation" if she hikes taxes in the coming budget. Despite intense price competition between supermarket chains, the BRC has sounded the alarm over the pace of grocery price […]

A woman who stabbed her ex-partner in the heart on Christmas Day after seeing his Tinder profile has been found guilty of his murder. Kirsty Carless, 33, plunged a knife into the heart of 31-year-old Louis Price in the early hours of 25 December 2024, in an attack "motivated by anger and jealousy and fuelled by cocaine and alcohol," after a friend sent her a picture of his Tinder profile, Stafford […]

Flights have resumed after a technical issue at air traffic control caused widespread disruption.The National Air Traffic Service, or NATS, said the glitch happened at its control centre at Swanwick, Hampshire at 4.05pm before restoring the system 20 minutes later. NATS initially issued a statement saying they were "limiting the number of aircraft flying in the London control area in order to ensure safety".Gatwick said "a technical issue impacting NATS […]

J Sainsbury, the supermarket chain, was on Wednesday racing to resolve an issue with the card payments giant Visa which was impacting customers' ability to pay for their online grocery orders.Sky News understands that Sainsbury's is working with Visa to address the issue after a number of shoppers reported that their card payments had failed. The retailer ruled out the possibility of a cyberattack and said its website and app […]