A man has been charged with murder after police in Bury found a body while responding to reports of a white labradoodle being stolen. Ian Gary Connell, 39, of Duke Street, Bolton, was due to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates’ Court today. Donald ‘Prentice’ Patience, 45, was discovered by officers at a house on Ainsworth
Month: August 2023
The former owners of The Daily Telegraph have lined up hundreds of millions of pounds from Middle Eastern investors in a bid to wrest back control of the newspaper from Britain’s biggest high street bank. Sky News can exclusively reveal that the Barclay family lodged a proposal last week to buy back roughly £1bn of
Embattled Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales has used his federation to accuse World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso of lying by saying she did not consent to being kissed by him. The latest defiant statement from the 46-year-old came in the early hours of Saturday morning amid mounting pressure from within Spanish football and the government
Breakups are not much fun. Whether it’s your first time through it or an unfortunate familiarity, there are few more agonising gut punches. Doubts and insecurities aplenty; wondering where, how and why things changed; and like an agonising Lionesses World Cup run, an overwhelming sense of “what if”. Being a “science and tech journalist” has
Four young people have died in a road crash in Co Tipperary, Irish police have said. The male driver, who was in his early 20s, and three female teenage passengers, were killed in the incident. One car was involved in the tragedy which happened close to Clonmel on Friday evening. The victims are all understood
Welcome to Backstage, the TV and film podcast from Sky News. On this week’s Backstage podcast, hosts Claire Gregory and Katie Spencer are live from Edinburgh TV Festival – an event that showcases upcoming shows and programmes coming to TV screens and streaming platforms in the near future. Click to subscribe to Backstage wherever you
Rail services across England will be crippled today because of another strike in the deadlocked dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. Around 20,000 members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union at 14 train operators are expected to join the walk out. Trains will start later on Saturday and finish earlier and some areas
Rail services across England will be crippled today because of another strike in the deadlocked dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. Around 20,000 members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union at 14 train operators are expected to join the walk out. Trains will start later on Saturday and finish earlier and some areas
The annual gathering of the people behind the shows that we see on TV has been taking place in Scotland this week. The Edinburgh TV Festival has seen commissioners, press and some famous faces heading to Edinburgh to discuss the current television landscape and promote some of the new shows they have coming out in
US climate envoy John Kerry has told Sky News that climate denial and disinformation is “costly, very dangerous and wrong”. Mr Kerry was responding to a question about a recent US Republican primary debate in which only one of the eight candidates explicitly stated that climate change is real, and candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said “the
You’re sitting at your desk in the office, tapping away at your laptop, you hear the unmistakable sound of a can being cracked open by your colleague sitting next to you. But rather than an ice-cold coke or gut-friendly kombucha, they’re sipping a beer. On closer inspection you see it’s alcohol-free, but it’s a hoppy,
Gut issues such as constipation, IBS and difficulty swallowing could be early warning signs for Parkinson’s disease, a new study has found. Alzheimer’s disease, brain aneurysms and strokes have been linked to poor gut health – but until now there has been no clear relationship with Parkinson’s. Researchers from the US and Belgium compared the
Rishi Sunak has said the inquiry into the murders carried out by Lucy Letby should be judge-led. The government ordered an inquiry last week after Letby was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others while working as a neonatal nurse. She was sentenced to 14 whole-life orders and will never
Heineken has sold its Russian business for just 86p – with the brewing giant set to face a total loss of £256m as a result. The Dutch brewing giant, which also makes Amstel and Birra Moretti beers, has been criticised for the slow pace of its exit following the war in Ukraine. Executives admitted the
From Luther and The Affair, through to His Dark Materials, actress Ruth Wilson has become the go-to actress when it comes to playing some of modern TV and film’s most complex characters. Rather than play it safe, the actress says she likes the idea that viewers who watch her work will be “triggered”. “It wouldn’t
It was one of the most lucrative changes of career in business history. In 1964, Fred DeLuca was a 17-year-old medical student working in a hardware store to help pay his way through college. Realising he was not earning enough for his needs, he asked a family friend, Peter Buck, whether he had any bright
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