Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish National Party have passed their peak and Scotland has had enough of them, according to Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson. “We’ve passed ‘peak Nat’ and, more and more, Scotland is saying ‘enough’,” she is claiming in a battle cry ahead of the elections for the Scottish Parliament in May. Her
Month: March 2021
Nearly 50,000 businesses have signed up for the government’s free workplace COVID tests, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced. The government claims this is a vital step towards restoring normal life after the pandemic. Tests can give a result within 30 minutes – and NHS Test and Trace analysis suggests they have a specificity of
Minneapolis City Council will pay George Floyd’s family $27m (£19.4m) to settle a civil lawsuit over his killing in police custody. The settlement includes $500,000 for the neighbourhood where Mr Floyd was arrested, the council said. Mr Floyd’s family filed the federal civil rights lawsuit against the city last July, alongside ones against police officer
Andrew Cuomo has criticised “reckless and dangerous” politicians for calling for him to step down as he told New Yorkers on Friday: “I’m not going to resign.” New York’s governor has said he wants people to “wait for the facts” regarding the sexual harassment allegations against him, adding that he doesn’t want to speculate on
The owner of All Bar One is facing a shareholder revolt over plans to bolster the guaranteed pay awards of its top executives amid a broader firestorm over corporate governance at the company. Sky News understands that several major institutional investors are planning to oppose Mitchells & Butlers’ (M&B) remuneration policy because it plans to
A judge has refused to intervene in a dispute over whether police should allow a vigil for Sarah Everard to take place on Saturday. Police initially gave a “positive response” to the plans for a vigil, but the women behind the event claim the Metropolitan Police later reversed its position because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, a part of GCHQ, is warning businesses to urgently update their Microsoft email servers following a state-sponsored espionage campaign. Microsoft has warned that multiple groups are taking advantage of a global and indiscriminate hack of its clients’ on-premise email servers, attributing the attack to state-sponsored group based in China,
The prime minister has stressed “there has got to be east-west consent” to the Northern Ireland Protocol after talks scheduled on Friday were snubbed by Sinn Fein. Boris Johnson, who visited Northern Ireland as it prepares to mark its centenary in May, is said to have held “frank” discussions with the DUP over the post-Brexit
Gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and snatched at least 30 students in the latest of a string of such kidnaps. The abduction happened at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization on the outskirts of Kaduna, nearly 400 miles from the capital Lagos. The gang struck at around 11.30pm on Thursday, according to
The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is suing HSBC in Hong Kong after a case it brought in English courts was dismissed. The company is seeking documents from the bank which it says the United States possesses but “deliberately and wilfully withheld” when requesting the extradition of its chief financial officer, Meng Wenzhou, from Canada –
It’s music’s biggest night, and this year’s Grammy Awards has set the tone for up and coming ceremonies across 2021. Beyonce dominated at this year’s Grammys, winning four of the top awards. Other winners included Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Megan Thee Stallion. Image: Beyonce is the most decorated female artist in Grammys history. Pic:
An auction for portions of the 5G spectrum is beginning today with EE, Vodafone, Three and O2 the mobile networks competing to win exclusive use of slices of the airwaves for their customers. It comes amid a number of challenges facing the UK’s 5G rollout, including accessing sites to place radio masts, and a ban
Italy is set to impose another national lockdown over the Easter weekend to combat growing numbers of coronavirus cases. It will see non-essential shops closed from 3 April to 5 April, with people only allowed to leave their homes for work, health or emergency reasons, according to a draft government decree seen by Reuters news
Elon Musk’s plans to send humans to Mars are a “dangerous delusion”, according to Britain’s chief astrophysicist Lord Martin Rees. Lord Rees, who has been the astronomer royal since 1995, dismissed the publicity-friendly billionaire’s plans at a World Government Summit panel in Dubai. He spoke alongside the American astrophysicist and science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson,
The UK economy rediscovered a reverse gear in January as renewed coronavirus lockdowns and Brexit hit activity, according to official figures. The initial estimate of a 2.9% contraction in gross domestic product (GDP) compared to the previous month, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), was better than the figure of nearer 5% expected by
China’s “vaccine favouritism” could be damaging public health efforts amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a leading expert has told Sky News. China has pledged to donate coronavirus vaccines to 53 countries and export them to 27 more, according to state media, which has celebrated the deliveries. But critics have accused the country of engaging in vaccine
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