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Campaigners and asylum seekers have won a Court of Appeal challenge over the government’s planned Rwanda deportation scheme. Three judges have overturned a High Court ruling that previously said the east African nation could be considered a “safe third country” for migrants to be sent to. It is the latest court verdict in a long-running

The second Ashes Test between England and Australia at Lord’s has been disrupted by Just Stop Oil protesters. Two protesters ran on to the pitch and threw orange powder, before England cricketer Jonny Bairstow picked one of them up and carried him off the pitch. The protesters were wearing Just Stop Oil t-shirts. Another protester

Struggling households are being preyed on by loan sharks, new research has found. One in 14 people (7%) said they – or someone else in their household – has borrowed from an unlicensed or unauthorised informal money lender who charges interest in the past three years, according to a survey for non-profit organisation Fair4All Finance.

We could be eating “hyper-personalised” diets which are “fully bespoke to your individual nutritional needs” within the next 20 years, a report is predicting. Breathing on a smartphone could help to determine what is healthy, and a takeaways might be tasted virtually prior to ordering, it is being suggested. Something dubbed BreathTech could be developed,

Police are appealing for information after a sheep was shot with an arrow in South Wales. The animal was discovered with the arrow in its chest on a mountain road at around 11am on Sunday, between Markham in Caerphilly county and Tredegar in Blaenau Gwent. The injured sheep is now recovering after the arrow was

A police station has been closed and cordoned off after a suspected Second World War hand grenade was handed in at the front desk. Malinsgate police station in Telford, Shropshire, and the road outside remains closed on Tuesday, with a 50-metre cordon in place around the building. West Mercia Police said the device was handed

Police have launched an investigation into the “unexplained” death of a man in Glasgow. Officers were called to a flat in the city’s Glenisla Street shortly after 5pm on Sunday following a report about a seriously injured man. A 50-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. The man has been named locally as Stuart

Manchester United have raised their forecasts for annual revenue and profit, weeks after the club secured its place in next season’s Champions League. The club, which is seven months into a sale process, said stronger commercial and matchday revenue over the last season was tipped to push total revenue to a record between £630m-£640m in

Nurses’ strikes are set to end in England after the profession’s largest union failed to secure enough votes to carry out further action. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) had planned to stage more walk-outs after its members rejected a pay offer from the government last month. However, unions have to hold ballots every six

Singer Lewis Capaldi has announced he will be taking a break from touring “for the foreseeable future”, saying he is “still learning to adjust to the impact of my Tourette’s.” It comes after the star struggled during his set at Glastonbury Festival over the weekend, with fans in the crowd singing for him as he

A body has been found in the search for missing 31-year-old Sarah Henshaw in Derbyshire. It was discovered just after midnight in a layby off the A617, close to junction 29 of the M1, and police say they believe it is Sarah. Her family has been told and is being supported by specialist officers. Ms

A new suspect has been named over the murder of Stephen Lawrence – 30 years after he was stabbed to death in southeast London. The Metropolitan Police said Matthew White was arrested twice over the 18-year-old’s killing, but on both occasions there was not enough evidence for a prosecution. Mr Lawrence was murdered in a

Glastonbury festivalgoers helped a struggling Lewis Capaldi through the end of his set by singing for him – after he lost his voice on stage. The Scottish singer, who had previously cancelled three weeks of shows to rest and recover, apologised as he prepared to belt out his hit song Someone You Loved on the

Several police forces across the UK have asked people not to call 999 due to a “technical fault”. London’s Metropolitan Police – the UK’s largest force – said many 999 calls were not connecting and advised people to call 101 in an emergency until further notice. South Wales Police, Greater Manchester Police and Derbyshire Police

Boys and girls of primary school age are becoming so ill from vaping they are ending up in hospital, a Sky News investigation can reveal. Figures from NHS England show there were 15 cases where children aged nine or under needed to be admitted in the year to April, up from 12 last year and

Canadian police are looking into the deaths of five people killed in the implosion of the Titan submersible. Superintendent Kent Osmond, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, confirmed on Saturday it was looking into the circumstances. Parts from the sub were discovered on the sea floor on Thursday, only about 400m from the wreck of

Police looking for a man who disappeared almost two years ago and whose body has never been found have begun searching two areas in the East Midlands, including a truck stop. Mr McKeever was last seen walking along Highbury Park, close to the junction of Highbury Grange, in Islington, north London, on 28 August 2021.

Mortgage lenders and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt have agreed that people should be given a 12-month break before repossession proceedings start amid soaring interest rates. After the rise of the base rate to 5%, Mr Hunt met with leaders of financial institutions including Lloyds, NatWest, Barclays and Virgin Money. They agreed that the repossession break should

The 19-year-old university student who was killed in the Titan submersible was “terrified” before the trip but went as a Father’s Day present. Azmeh Dawood, the older sister of Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, told Sky’s US partner network NBC News that Mr Dawood’s son Suleman was “very not into doing it”. “Suleman had a sense

Coroners and bereaved parents could be granted access to data on the phones of deceased children under last-minute changes to the government’s Online Safety Bill. Families of young people who took their own lives after accessing harmful online content watched on as the government – at the eleventh hour – agreed to support an amendment