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WH Smith is in secret talks to sell its entire high street business in Britain more than 230 years after it opened its first shop in central London.Sky News can exclusively reveal that the listed retail group, which has a market capitalisation of almost £1.5bn, has been in negotiations with a number of prospective buyers of the division for several weeks. WH Smith could confirm the plan in a statement […]

Auschwitz survivors have told Sky News of their pessimism that lessons have not been learnt from history, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp."I hope I'm wrong," says survivor Ivor Perl. "But there's […] a saying that if one doesn't learn from history, you're cursed to live through it again."Ivor is nearly 93 years old and it took half a century for him to feel […]

When the police arrived at the scene of horror in Southport last summer, the teenager holding the knife was someone they had been called about many times before.From the age of 13, Axel Rudakubana had been on the radar of police, safeguarding services, mental health teams and Prevent, the counterterrorism programme. Image: Axel Rudakubana pictured several years ago His obsession with mass murder was known about. The risk he posed […]

A 30-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 75-year-old man was stabbed to death in southwest London.Police were called to a property on Deodar Road in Putney at around 3:36am this morning following reports of a stabbing.Officers arrived at the scene alongside the London Ambulance Service who treated the victim for stab injuries.He was later pronounced dead at the scene.The 30-year-old man who was arrested is […]

The search is continuing for a missing mother from Cardiff six months after she was last seen.The last confirmed sighting of Charlene Hobbs was in a photograph taken on a mobile phone at a property in the Adamsdown area of the city on 24 July. On the previous day, she was seen on CCTV at Morrisons Local in Adamsdown.South Wales Police said specialist search teams are looking for Ms Hobbs, […]

The 52-year prison sentence of Axel Rudakubana is to be reviewed following complaints it was "unduly lenient".Southport's MP Patrick Hurley was among those calling for a longer term on Thursday after the 18-year-old was jailed for murdering Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, in July last year. The Labour backbencher said: "In my view, the sentence passed is unduly lenient. The crimes he […]

Mobile network Three has apologised after customers across the country reported problems making and receiving voice calls.More than 10,000 people have logged problems on outage site Downdetector, with the first issues reported around 1pm. The network said a "small percentage" of customers were affected and that it was working hard to fix it. X This content is provided by X, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show […]

A man and a woman have been charged with the murder of their three-month-old son in Merseyside.Police said a child was found unresponsive at a house on Percy Road, Seacombe, on Sunday 24 November, after officers were called to reports of concern for the infant.Miguel Pirjani was taken to hospital where injuries to his body were found.Despite the efforts of medics, he died five days later on 29 November.Klevi Pirjani, […]

A rare red alert for "very strong" wind has been issued for parts of the UK ahead of Storm Eowyn.The alert, which covers all of Northern Ireland from 7am on Friday until 2pm, and parts of Scotland from 10am to 5pm, warns of "very dangerous conditions" and "widespread disruption". Tornados could also hit parts of the UK today, ahead of the storm, with forecasters warning of a danger to life.The […]