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👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne's on your podcast app👈 It's the Monday after a dramatic weekend in the House of Commons and Sam and Anne are here to bring you up to speed on the race to keep the furnaces on at the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe. So what happens now after emergency legislation was passed on Saturday to give the government control of the plant and […]

The government has called military planners to help tackle the mounting piles of rubbish in Birmingham as a month-long strike by the city's bin workers continues.Amid an "ongoing public health risk" posed by the mounds of waste that have been piling up, military planners will be assigned to provide logistical support for a short period. They will be office-based and soldiers are not being deployed to collect rubbish.Sky News understands […]

Jean Marsh, star of Upstairs, Downstairs, has died aged 90, her agent has confirmed.Marsh's friend, director Sir Michael Lindsay-Hogg, said in a statement to the PA news agency: "Jean died peacefully in bed looked after by one of her very loving carers. "You could say we were very close for 60 years. She was as wise and funny as anyone I ever met, as well as being very pretty and […]

A woman has died and two other members of her family have been left seriously injured after a car hit pedestrians outside a leisure park.The incident involving a grey BMW 3 Series took place outside Crawley Leisure Park in West Sussex at about 8.36pm on Saturday, Sussex Police said. A 25-year-old woman was killed in the collision, while her sister, 12, and their cousin, a 19-year-old woman, were seriously injured […]

Low-level drinking can increase your chances of cancer and cardiovascular disease, according to a new study.Research conducted by the Behavioural Insights Team, on behalf of the charity Alcohol Change UK, examined the drinking habits of more than 4,000 UK adults. It found that people who consumed alcohol within the NHS guidelines had worse health than non-drinkers.Compared to people who never consumed alcohol, rates of cardiovascular disease increased from 1% to […]

A Liberal Democrat MP has been denied entry to Hong Kong where she was due to visit her newborn grandson.Wera Hobhouse landed at Hong Kong airport on Thursday after a 13-hour flight - only to be detained by security, questioned, and put on a return flight to the UK, she told The Times. She had been due to visit her three-month-old grandson and described Chinese authorities' actions as a "cruel […]

Sir Keir Starmer was flying the flag for domestic steel production on Saturday as his government passed emergency legislation to give itself extraordinary powers to intervene in the running of the steel works in Scunthorpe and elsewhere. He wants voters to notice that his intervention-friendly government has stepped in to save virgin steel production which was days away from dying out for good because of what ministers call the bad […]

Police in Birmingham have asked for help in identifying a man whose body was found in one of the city's canals last year.The man is described as being Asian, around 50 to 60 years old, of medium build and having black hair. He was not injured and there is no evidence a third party was involved, West Midlands Police said.His body was discovered in the canal between Raboe Lane and […]

MPs are set to debate emergency legislation to keep the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe open in a move that would pave the way for nationalisation.The rare Saturday sitting of parliament will come after Jingye, the steelwork's Chinese owner, cancelled orders for the raw materials needed to keep the UK's last blast furnaces running. Jingye also rejected a £500m state rescue package in a move which raised fresh doubts about […]