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Non-crime hate incidents guidance needs to be urgently changed because officers are “not the thought police”, the shadow home secretary has said. Chris Philp told a major policing conference that the police should “apply common sense and not waste time and resources” investigating incidents unless there is “an imminent risk of criminality”. He said forces

A family has been left “completely devastated” after a woman was found dead in a flat in South Lanarkshire. The body of Phoenix Spencer-Horn, 21, was discovered at the property in East Kilbride’s Glen Lee at around 12.10pm on Monday. A 26-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with the incident and is

Two Metropolitan Police officers are facing a criminal investigation after a pregnant woman and her baby were killed in a collision with an unmarked police car. The woman’s car was struck by the police vehicle in Eltham, southeast London, on 17 October. Two unmarked police vehicles had been responding to an unrelated incident when the

Police are searching for a British woman who was last seen more than a week ago at an airport in southern Poland. Ania Czopinski, 18, was spotted on CCTV on 11 November at Krakow-Balice Airport at around 11pm. Officers say she did not have a passport with her. Image: Ms Czopinski was last spotted on

Warren Gatland is set to leave his role as Wales rugby head coach, Sky News and Sky Sports News understands. The 61-year-old was in charge of the national team between 2007 and 2019, before he returned to the post in 2022. Pressure had been growing on Gatland after Wales suffered a record string of defeats

An extra £500m of additional funding will be given to neighbourhood policing, the home secretary is set to announce. Yvette Cooper will also lay out plans for a new unit to improve the performances of police forces across the country to end the “postcode lottery” of how effectively crimes are dealt with. The Home Office

Wales will press ahead with its own deposit return scheme as it looks to include glass bottles, the Welsh government has announced. Talks had been ongoing between the UK government and the devolved administrations to establish the schemes in conjunction with one another. Under the plan, which has already been introduced in several European countries,

One of Queen Camilla’s beloved dogs who brought her “such joy” has died. Beth, a Jack Russell terrier, is understood to have been put down at the weekend. It is believed Beth, who had been with Camilla since 2011, had an untreatable tumour. Image: Queen Camilla and Beth at the Battersea Dogs And Cats Home.

An Australian indigenous politician who heckled King Charles during his visit to the country last month has been censured. Senator Lidia Thorpe confronted the King during a reception in Parliament House in Canberra in October. “Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us! Our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people,”

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) says it has made wide-ranging changes to the treatment of women in custody, following a Sky News investigation. This includes ending the use of police strip searches for “welfare” purposes and ensuring it is a “last resort” when looking for concealed items. A Sky News investigation in 2023 into the custody

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) says it has made wide-ranging changes to the treatment of women in custody, following a Sky News investigation. This includes ending the use of police strip searches for “welfare” purposes and ensuring it is a “last resort” when looking for concealed items. A Sky News investigation in 2023 into the custody

England have been promoted back to League A of the Nations League after beating the Republic of Ireland 5-0 – in what marked Lee Carsley’s last game as head coach. After a goalless first half, Ireland defender Liam Scales was sent off for a second yellow card when he brought down Jude Bellingham inside the

England have been promoted back to League A of the Nations League after beating the Republic of Ireland 5-0 – in what marked Lee Carsley’s last game as head coach. After a goalless first half, Ireland defender Liam Scales was sent off for a second yellow card when he brought down Jude Bellingham inside the

South Yorkshire Police have warned pet owners to “step up before someone dies” after receiving 13 reports of dangerous dogs in less than 48 hours. One man was attacked by his own American bulldog in Sheffield on Thursday afternoon, the force said, when he attempted to separate it and a pocket bully inside a property.

A murder victim’s family claim the farm where her killer says he buried her is not worth its true market value because her body still hasn’t been found. Independent valuers believe the property is worth up to 50% less and would be difficult to sell anyway, according to reports seen by Sky News. The family

A cold weather alert, covering most of England, begins this morning ahead of an Arctic chill set to sweep across the UK. The warning from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) comes into effect between 9am on Sunday and 9am on Thursday. The Met Office has issued two separate yellow warnings for snow and ice

Essex Police say they are investigating Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson over an alleged criminal offence, rather than for a non-crime hate incident (NCHI) as she has suggested. Ms Pearson said she was “dumbfounded” and “upset” when two police officers knocked on her door on Remembrance Sunday and told her she was being investigated over a

Essex Police say they are investigating an alleged criminal offence of inciting racial hatred, after Daily Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson said she was “dumbfounded and upset” when officers knocked on her door last Sunday. Ms Pearson revealed she was told she was being investigated over a year-old deleted post online. She said she wasn’t informed

A police officer who sexually assaulted a six-year-old girl on duty has been jailed. Dean Dempster, 35, from Manchester, attacked the child when he was responding to a domestic disturbance on 29 December 2023 while on duty in Oldham. During the investigation, it was also found he had superimposed his face onto child abuse images.

Consumer rights group Which? is suing Apple for £3bn over the way it deploys the iCloud. If the lawsuit succeeds, around 40 million Apple customers in the UK could be entitled to a payout. The lawsuit claims Apple, which controls iOS operating systems, has breached UK competition law by giving its iCloud storage preferential treatment,