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Ready for another season of love this summer? The 10th series of Love Island will see the return of the reality show as a new batch of guys and girls prepare for some grafting, glam and humour. ITV has unveiled the details of the first set of Islanders, with the new summer series scheduled to

Food inflation in the UK has slowed from April’s record-breaking rise – but is still up more than 15% on the year, new retail figures show. Research by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Nielsen shows a 15.4% rise in food inflation in the year to May. It is the second-fastest annual increase that the

One year on from the death of Punjabi hip hop star Sidhu Moose Wala, his father says he is destroyed by his son’s killing. Speaking exclusively to Sky News, Mr Singh says he has not been able to heal from the pain of losing his only child. Sidhu Moose Wala was a global icon who

A car was left stranded after parking on a Cornwall beach. St Agnes Coastguard Search and Rescue Team was alerted to the presence of the black BMW at Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes, shortly before 8.30am on Sunday. The team was tasked to ensure everybody in the vehicle was safe and remained at the scene while

Firefighters have warned against leaving objects in direct sunlight after a pair of sunglasses set a car on fire. The sunglasses had been left on the dashboard and pictures show damage to the steering wheel and a hole in the windscreen. Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said they attended the incident on Saturday – the

Boris Johnson has a “huge role to play” in the future of the Conservative Party, according to one cabinet minister, while a staunch ally of the ex-prime minister urged “the left” to leave him alone. The Conservative MPs were speaking following last week’s revelation that Mr Johnson’s diaries from when he was in Number 10

The Home Office is launching an ad campaign in Albania aimed at deterring people from crossing the English Channel illegally. Posters bear the message that people “face being detained and removed” if they make the journey. The department would not say how much the publicity drive is expected to cost but announced it will also

Police are hunting for a burglar who escaped from a prison van outside their Brixton station. Kwami Richards escaped from the van, operated by a private security firm, at around 2pm on Friday as he was being transported back to jail. The 42-year-old had been detained for breaching his licence conditions after serving a sentence

A body was found in a river in Lincolnshire on Friday during a search for a missing schoolboy, police have said. The teenager, named by police only as Oliwier, 15, was last seen near the bank of the River Trent at The Flood Road bridge in Gainsborough late on Monday evening. Police mounted a “round-the-clock

Carbon dioxide is the big villain of global warming. The “most wanted” for crimes against the climate that we’d love to lock up. In Merseyside and North Wales, they’re putting a posse together. It’s called HyNet and it’s a group of around 40 carbon-intensive industries like glass and cement, even breakfast cereals, crisps and proposed

Britain’s largest building society has made some mortgages more expensive as the Bank of England’s interest rate is now expected to rise higher than previously thought. Nationwide has said interest rates on new fixed-rate mortgages will rise 0.45 percentage points. It follows moves by lenders such as Halifax, Santander and Atom Bank who also upped

Witnesses have described an “almighty smash” and officers with Tasers and “rifles” shouting at a man after a car drove into the Downing Street gates. One person was arrested after a hatchback hit the barrier at around 4.20pm. Video showed it crossing Whitehall, apparently from the direction of a Ministry of Defence car park opposite,

Police are photographing an excavation site near the banks of a remote reservoir in Portugal as the new search for Madeleine McCann enters a third day. Teams were seen early on Thursday cutting wood on the banks of a reservoir 30 miles from where the toddler went missing in the Algarve in May 2007. Officers

Police Scotland’s chief constable has admitted that the force is “institutionally racist and discriminatory”. Sir Iain Livingstone, who is set to retire later this year, said prejudice and bad behaviour within policing was “rightly of great concern and is utterly condemned”. Speaking at a meeting of the Scottish Police Authority on Thursday morning, Sir Iain

One in every five GP practices in England and Wales has closed since 2013, according to Sky News analysis of NHS data. Doctors are now warning that staff shortages are putting primary care provision at serious risk. Those practices that remain open are increasingly stretched thin amid rising numbers of patients and falling numbers of

MPs have voted to suspend COVID rulebreaker Margaret Ferrier from the House of Commons for 30 days. The suspension could now lead to a by-election in the politician’s Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency. Ms Ferrier was ruled to have damaged the reputation of the Commons and put people at risk after taking part in a

Police have recovered a body from a river in the search for missing woman Shannon Canning. The 24-year-old was last seen in the early hours of Friday 19 May when she left her home address in Keswick Court, Lancaster. She was due to open the Tipple bar – where she works – in the city

GPs will be required to give patients the option to travel further for healthcare or go to a private alternative under plans to cut NHS waiting times. Doctors will have to offer up to five healthcare providers when making referrals, allowing people to select their preference using the NHS app or website. The options will

The government believes it has secured a commitment from Jaguar Land Rover owner Tata to build a new gigafactory in the UK, Sky News has been told. Senior Whitehall sources believe the Indian industrial giant has chosen the UK over Spain as the site for its giant new battery factory. The news is due to

Lucy Letby has suggested plumbing issues and “raw sewage” could have played a part in the deaths of the babies she is accused of murdering. The nurse denies killing seven babies, as well as the attempted murder of 10 other infants, at Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016. The 33-year-old defendant was cross-examined