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Temperatures are forecast to rise to double figures on Monday, though the end of the bitter cold snap could bring some flooding.Ice and snow will begin to melt as temperatures rise above 0C (32F), with localised flooding possible, the Met Office said. At least 30 flood alerts and two flood warnings are in place across England.Get the forecast for your areaDaniel Bond, flood duty manager at the Environment Agency, said: […]

The UK's first safer drug consumption room is officially open.The Thistle - based in Glasgow's east end - will allow users to be able to consume drugs, including injecting heroin, under supervision in a clean and hygienic environment. The pilot is being backed by the Scottish government, with Holyrood pledging up to £2.3m a year for the facility to help tackle the country's drug-related deaths crisis.Data from National Records of […]

Tulip Siddiq has sought to distance herself from her aunt, deposed Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina, claiming they never spoke about politics.But Sky News can reveal that in a blog written by the now City minister she boasted about how close they were politically and published photos of them together. In posts written in late 2008 and early 2009, when she was a Labour activist, Ms Siddiq described campaigning with her […]

A hospital in north London has advertised for a corridor nurse, as the NHS grapples with a winter crisis of rising pressures.Recent days have seen more than a dozen hospitals declaring critical incidents as a "quad-demic" of flu, COVID, norovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) all put a strain on the health service's resources. In north London, Whittington Hospital has recently advertised for registered nurses who can work shifts in […]

Train managers have launched the first of a series of five months of strikes on busy rail routes, causing travel disruption. There will be picket lines outside stations including London Euston, Liverpool and Edinburgh today in the walkout in a dispute over rest day working. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) at Avanti West Coast will strike every Sunday until 25 May.A reduced timetable will be in […]

A police officer has been killed after being hit by a lorry while helping motorists who had been involved in a separate collision.PC Rosie Prior died was killed on the A19 at Bagby in North Yorkshire on Saturday morning.Another driver, Ryan Welford, 41, from Knaresborough, was also killed when the HGV struck him and PC Prior. Image: Ryan Welford. Pic via North Yorkshire Police A teenage boy is in a […]

A clothing ad filmed on the wedding day of two reality TV stars has been banned for glamorising smoking, the advertising watchdog has said.The video was posted on Instagram by The Only Way is Essex alum Ercan Ramadan on 3 October last year and shared by his wife Vicky Pattison, a former star of Geordie Shore. It featured Ramadan and seven groomsmen with cigars.The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the […]

Rachel Reeves's trip to China – the first by a British chancellor since 2019 - was always going to be controversial. In recent years Conservative governments have been keeping Beijing at arm's length - amid concern about espionage, the situation in Hong Kong, and the treatment of the Uyghurs. David Cameron's so-called "Golden Era" of engagement in the pursuit of economic investment, notoriously capped by a visit to an Oxfordshire […]

The government contract for the controversial asylum barge in Dorset has ended.The last asylum seekers are believed to have left Bibby Stockholm at the end of November after Labour said it would have cost more than £20m to run in 2025. Its closure this month was expected, and on Friday the management firm and the Home Office confirmed to Sky News the contract had now expired.It's currently unclear when Bibby […]