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A clinical trial testing the effectiveness of faecal transplants for patients suffering from advanced liver disease is being launched in the UK.  The trial will test whether faeces from healthy people, which are freeze-dried into capsules that can be ingested, reduces the likelihood of patients with cirrhosis getting infections. Cirrhosis is a condition that results

A young child has been airlifted after an incident outside a hospital in Pembrokeshire. Officers were called to reports of a car colliding with pedestrians outside Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest at about 11.50am on Wednesday. A pedestrian, the driver of the car and a passenger have all been taken to hospital for treatment. Police said

Sky News analysis reveals the price of a can of baked beans has doubled since 2018, and a summer barbecue this year will cost £10 more than it did five years ago. Use our calculators below to compare how recent events have affected the cost of your groceries, clothing, and leisure activities. Stuart Parkinson, an

Not good. Not good at all. The last few months of inflation data have had a dreary and repetitive rhythm to them. Economists predict the rate at which prices are rising will finally begin to fall, and fast. Then the official data comes in and it turns out prices are not falling as fast as

Police rushed to help a member of the Household Cavalry who fainted while in position for the King’s first service for the Order of the Garter as monarch. Braving the heat for the second time since the weekend, members of the Household Cavalry and Yeoman Warders lined the streets of Windsor as the King led

Boris Johnson has been stripped of special access to parliament after MPs endorsed the privileges committee’s report that he lied about parties in Downing Street during the COVID pandemic. MPs voted by 354 to seven to back the report’s findings. A debate was held in the Commons on Monday afternoon asking MPs to consider the

The driver in the Croydon tram disaster has been cleared over the crash, which killed seven people. Alfred Dorris was found not guilty of failing to take “reasonable care” of the health and safety of himself and his passengers. It follows a trial at the Old Bailey, in which it was alleged that Mr Dorris

A man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing a university student with a “Mafia stiletto” knife. Shiloh Pottinger was found guilty of manslaughter last month after the death of 19-year-old Luke O’Connor in Manchester in October 2022. A jury at Manchester Crown Court heard that the pair were involved in an

A man has pleaded guilty to a criminal offence after wearing a shirt referencing the Hillsborough disaster to the FA Cup final. James White, 33, of Warwickshire, admitted a charge of displaying threatening or abusive writing likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress at Willesden Magistrates’ Court on Monday. It comes after he wore a

England cricket star Moeen Ali has been fined on his Test return for using an unauthorised drying spray on his bowling hand on day two of the Ashes curtain-raiser at Edgbaston. Umpires had barred players from using any cream on their hands without prior approval ahead of the series between England and Australia. The International

Teachers will go on strike for another two days this school term, the National Education Union has announced. The union’s national executive said two walkouts by its members will take place on Wednesday 5 July and Friday 7 July. Members of the NEU previously went on strike on three dates in February and three dates

The King is taking part in the first Trooping the Colour of his reign to mark his inaugural birthday parade. He is the first monarch in more than 30 years to take part in the ceremony on horseback. Watch live: Trooping the Colour celebrating King Charles III’s Birthday He will take the royal salute as

Britain is facing a deepening “mortgage crunch”, with households already wrestling with the cost of living crisis facing yet a further squeeze on their budgets. It has been warned that those renewing their property loans next year will end up paying out on average an extra £2,900 annually. Most expensive items in a summer BBQ

The King will become the first monarch in more than 30 years to take part in Trooping the Colour on horseback this morning. Charles will take the royal salute as Colonel in Chief of the Household Division’s seven regiments during the ceremony, staged on Horse Guards Parade, as members of the Royal Family and 8,000

The King’s first Birthday Honours list has been issued with former footballer Ian Wright and fashion editor Dame Anna Wintour among those recognised. Other well-known faces being given honours include the television presenter Davina McCall and the Line of Duty actor Vicky McClure. The highest award, Companion of Honour, has been given to the Booker

A man has been convicted of murdering a woman nearly half a century ago following a DNA breakthrough. John Apelgren hit sex worker Eileen Cotter in the face, strangled her and threw her body out of his car in Islington, north London, in 1974. After interviewing 92 potential suspects at the time, the case went

Boris Johnson has dramatically made a double retreat from all-out verbal war with Rishi Sunak over the damning report which concluded he lied to MPs over partygate. First, he has ordered his closest allies in the Commons not to vote against the privileges committee report that proposed a 90-day suspension if he had still been

A police officer has been stabbed in Kent and is in a serious condition in hospital. Kent Police said the attack happened when officers attended an address in Albion Place, Maidstone, at around 8pm on Thursday. The officer was airlifted to a London hospital with stab wounds. He remains in a serious but stable condition,

A police officer has been accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. Luke Christopher Horner, based in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, with the Thames Valley force, has been charged with one count of engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a child and one of making an indecent image of a child. Northamptonshire Police said the charges against

A hosepipe ban is to be introduced for more than two million people in Kent and Sussex as the country swelters during the current heatwave. South East Water said it was bringing in the restriction over water shortages in those regions. Schools have been forced to close during the hot weather and bottled water stations