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The foreign secretary has said the UK and allies will not be “bullied by Putin’s shameless grandstanding” as the prime minister faces pressure to allow Ukraine to fire British long-range missiles into Russia. David Lammy told Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips the Russian president’s threats to use nuclear weapons if the West sends

A police dog injured during violent disorder in Southport has retired from service. Zoe needed stitches after suffering a laceration to her leg during disorder involving hundreds of people on 30 July. Mersey Police Dogs said the animal was now “fit and well” but added it would “never ask our dogs to do something they

A teacher who held a placard at a pro-Palestinian protest depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts has been found not guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence. Warning: This article contains language some may find offensive Marieha Hussain, 37, from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, had denied the prosecution’s allegation that the placard

A Metropolitan Police officer who was fined for assault after wrongly arresting a woman for not paying a bus fare has had his conviction overturned. PC Perry Lathwood, 50, of East Sussex, had been convicted of assaulting a woman in front of her young son in Croydon, south London, on 21 July last year. Jocelyn

Six British diplomats have been expelled from Russia after being accused of “spying and sabotage”. The country’s FSB security service said they worked in the “political department” of the British embassy in Moscow. A Whitehall source told Sky News the diplomats were kicked out in August as part of a wave of tit-for-tat expulsions. The

BBC presenter Jay Blades – who appears on The Repair Shop – has been charged with engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour against his estranged wife, police have said. The 54-year-old appeared at Kidderminster Magistrates’ Court earlier today and was bailed to appear again at Worcester Crown Court on 11 October. The alleged coercive behaviour

A proposal to build a new 50-mile railway line as a cheaper but slower alternative to a scrapped section of HS2 has been unveiled. A report has said journeys between London and Manchester on the line would only be 15 minutes longer than they would have been under the original HS2 plans. The journey time

Breathing tubes became “dislodged” during 40% of trainee shifts worked by serial killer Lucy Letby in Liverpool, prior to the murder and attempted murder of babies at another hospital in Chester, an inquiry has heard. The former neonatal nurse was sentenced to life imprisonment last year for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder others

The gap between how much money the state takes in and its spending will triple in the next 50 years, according to independent forecasters. Public debt will rise due to an ageing and ill population as well as climate change, the fiscal watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has said. The ratio between debt

A young child has sustained “life-changing injuries” in a suspected hit and run involving a motorbike. Police received a report of a serious collision on Central Drive, Shotton, shortly after 5.30pm. North Wales Police is attempting to locate the suspect, who officers say failed to stop after the collision. Three people have been arrested on

A body has been found in the search for a missing hillwalker who disappeared more than a year-and-a-half ago. Ross Kinghorn, 57, travelled by train from Linlithgow, West Lothian, in January 2023 with the intention of exploring the Bridge of Tilt area of Perthshire. He was last seen in Blair Atholl and is believed to

The King found himself in the middle of a group hug from a rugby team. During a reception at Buckingham Palace, New Zealand player Winger Ayesha Leti-I’iga asked to hug the monarch, to which the King replied: “A hug, why not?” That was enough of a greenlight for the multiple Black Ferns players, who are

Buckingham Palace has released details of King and Queen’s tour of Australia and Samoa, but the trip will not include New Zealand. An earlier plan to include a visit to New Zealand had to be cancelled “on doctor’s advice”, with “tough decisions” taken on the remainder of the programme for the trip, which will take

MPs have voted to cut the winter fuel payment for all but the country’s poorest pensioners. A Tory move to block the measure was defeated by 348 to 228 votes – a majority of 120. Labour has a working majority in the Commons of 167. The division list showed Labour MP Jon Trickett supported the

A police officer has been found guilty of sexually abusing a girl under the age of 13. John Stringer was on trial at Cardiff Crown Court where a jury returned its verdict on Monday. The 42-year-old from Cardiff had been suspended from duty by Gwent Police when the force first became aware of the allegations

Roughly £5.5bn of potential state revenue has been lost due to tax evasion, according to the government spending watchdog. The vast majority of evasion took place in small businesses which can “easily exploit” weaknesses in government systems, the National Audit Office (NAO) said. But the body that collects tax – HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)

A loud crash jolts Paul Wheeler into waking up in the middle of the night. As he peers out of his bedroom window, which overlooks the park at the back of his home in a quiet, suburban part of Kent, he sees a shadowy figure setting fire to something. It’s a warm summer night, Labour

The body of a woman has been found in water off a beach on the Isle of Wight, police have said. Officers were called to the seaside resort town of Shanklin on Sunday morning following a report that the body of a woman had been spotted in the water, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary

The King has attended church near Balmoral for a service in memory of his mother Queen Elizabeth II on the second anniversary of her death. The monarch, accompanied by Queen Camilla, arrived at the tiny granite Crathie Kirk, where the late monarch was a regular worshipper, two years on from his accession to the throne.

A body of a woman has been found in the search for the wife of a former Scotland rugby player who went missing following a swim, police have said. The woman’s body was discovered near Hound Point, South Queensferry, at around 3.20pm on Saturday, Police Scotland said. Officers say the body has not been formally