The Labour Party has said it would have “no choice” but to continue housing asylum seekers on barges and ex-military bases if it forms the next government. Shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said Labour would “inherit a mess” if it wins the next election and that it would have to “deal with the infrastructure that
Month: August 2023
Elon Musk has said his social media platform will live stream his fight with rival Mark Zuckerberg. The 52-year-old, who owns X (formerly known as Twitter), revealed earlier in the year that he and Zuckerberg, 39, who runs the Meta group of platforms including Facebook, will take part in a cage match for charity. Posting
Simone Biles made a return to sporting dominance on Saturday night, topping the podium on her gymnastics comeback. She competed in Chicago’s US classic, two years after taking a break following the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. The four-time gold medallist showed off her tumbling, spinning and flipping routines, famous for being so difficult that no
Doctors have issued a warning not to use castor oil as a way to treat vision problems following claims on TikTok. Castor oil is a type of vegetable oil traditionally used to treat a range of issues like skin infections. It is even a common ingredient in some over-the-counter eye drops. But dozens of TikTok
A Russian bomb has hit a blood transfusion centre in the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed. On Telegram, the Ukrainian president said there are fatalities and injuries after the strike in the town of Kupiansk. Mr Zelenskyy said rescue workers were extinguishing fires at the scene, and he described the attack as
The NHS must embrace robotics and AI if it is to make it through the current crisis and be fit to face future ones, surgeons have warned. Waiting lists for routine treatment, let alone complex surgery, have reached an all-time high this year as the health service grapples with a backlog made worse by the
Disgraced Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins has been stabbed in prison, according to reports. The 46-year-old is serving a 29-year jail term for multiple sexual offences, including serious crimes against young children and babies. According to the Mirror, the paedophile is in a “life-threatening condition” following the incident at HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire. The newspaper
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has promised to investigate unlawful bank closures after the chancellor warned the practice could be “widespread”. Jeremy Hunt told the FCA that he wants to see banks “spell out to an affected customer why they are terminating their payment account”. In a letter to the regulator, he wrote this would
Facebook, TikTok and Twitter will team up with UK law enforcement to crack down on posts by people smugglers encouraging migrants to cross the English Channel, the government says. Rishi Sunak, who has made cutting the number of small boats arriving on UK shores one of his “five pledges”, said the new partnerships with various social
The “concerned” mother of a teenager evacuated from the World Scout Jamboree during a heatwave in South Korea says her son faced “hugely uncomfortable” conditions at the event. Annabel Shackleton’s 17-year-old son Aaron is one of the 4,000 UK Scouts who have been evacuated from the campsite to hotels in the country’s capital, Seoul, due
It’s the great comedy debate. With performers at Edinburgh’s Fringe feeling the pinch from rising accommodation, food and fuel costs, has the festival become elitist? “There’s a definite economic barrier,” comedian Paul Chowdhry told Sky News. “Most of the people I speak to, throughout the years, say it’s a very middle-class white industry. You very
Comedian Joe Pasquale has told a podcast he had to get stitches after impaling himself with a set of moose antlers at the end of a show in Skegness. The star was performing at the seaside town’s Embassy Theatre last month as part of his new tour, The New Normal. Speaking on Kate Thornton’s White
A social media post by Donald Trump written in all-capital letters saying ”if you go after me, I’m coming after you!” could be interpreted as intimidating, US prosecutors have said. Mr Trump posted the message on his Truth Social platform on Friday afternoon a day after he pleaded not guilty to charges relating to attempts to
A gym-goer has said she was shocked as she claimed Rishi Sunak turned up to a SoulCycle class on Friday. The prime minister is currently on holiday in California, saying earlier in the week it’s his first family trip away in several years. But after being pictured on Santa Monica Pier and visiting Disneyland, he
One of Britain’s biggest lenders to small businesses is hatching plans for a £3.5bn tie-up with the Co-operative Bank. Sky News has learnt that Shawbrook Group has approached the owners of the Co-operative Bank in recent weeks to outline plans for a stock-based combination of the two companies. Sources said this weekend that the preliminary
Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister, has been arrested after he was sentenced to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts, his lawyer said. Police were seen surrounding his residence in Lahore on Saturday after the verdict was released. The 70-year-old former cricketer was sentenced after he was found guilty of unlawfully selling
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