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Ryan Giggs will face another hearing ahead of a retrial on domestic violence charges. A hearing was held on Thursday to deal with matters which cannot be reported on ahead of Giggs’ trial. The 49-year-old former Wales manager was not present for the pre-trial review at Manchester Crown Court. He was on trial last year

The King has arrived at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, where he will be presented with the Honours of Scotland, the country’s crown jewels. He and the Queen travelled the short distance from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to the church, where leading figures from Scotland’s national life gathered for the event. Scotland’s First Minister Humza

A nurse has been struck off after her secret lover patient died in a car. Penelope Williams had been a registered nurse working at a renal haemodialysis unit in Wrexham since October 2019 when the incident happened. On the evening of 8 January 2022, the patient was found partially clothed in the back of a

Drivers have been paying more for fuel since 2019 due to weakening competition between retailers, a regulator has said. They said that increased supermarket fuel margins led to drivers paying an extra 6p per litre. Asda has also been fined £60,000 for a failure to provide information when required, the regulator added. It comes in

Young people are increasingly using AI for various creative processes like making music, according to a charity. Tee Peters, musician and programme director at Sound Connections, has been using AI in the process of making his music for years. He said that for him, AI acts as the “perfect assistant” when it comes to mixing

Households will pay less for their gas and electricity from today but bills will still be almost double what they were before the energy crisis. The average household energy bill will fall by £426 a year from 1 July after Ofgem dropped its price cap following tumbling wholesale prices. People had been advised to submit

King Charles will be presented with a new sword named after the late Queen when he receives Scotland’s crown jewels at a special ceremony next week. The Elizabeth Sword will officially be given to the King along with the Honours of Scotland at a National Service of Thanksgiving at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh on

The energy price cap is set to fall again, according to a closely-watched forecast, as the energy regulator has said the average home is using less energy. The average household will be paying roughly £200 less from autumn than they are from next month, but still “well above” historical levels, energy research specialist Cornwall Insight

An inquiry into undercover police operations into activist groups has concluded the deployments were unjustified and would have been “brought to a rapid end” if the public had known what was going on. Retired judge Sir John Mitting, the inquiry’s chair, is examining the conduct of 139 undercover officers who spied on more than 1,000

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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