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The King has marked his first Mother’s Day since the death of the Queen by posting a touching picture of the pair on Instagram. The image shows the King as a toddler standing on his mother’s lap as both beam for the camera. Another photo shows the Queen Consort with her late mother, Rosalind Shand,

Boris Johnson is to submit a dossier of evidence ahead of an interrogation by MPs over whether he lied to Parliament about the partygate scandal. The former prime minister will provide information in his defence as he prepares for a lengthy televised grilling by the Commons privileges committee on Wednesday, where he faces a fight

A UK-wide emergency alert service is being launched today, ahead of a test on Sunday 23 April. The alerts will be sent directly to mobile phones across the UK to warn people about life-threatening events such as wildfires and severe flooding, the government has said. They will only come from the government or emergency services

Ireland has clinched their fourth Six Nations Grand Slam with a 29-16 victory over England in Dublin. The win gives the side a big boost, underlining their status as the world’s top-ranked team ahead of September’s World Cup in France. England got to within one point of an upset with just 20 minutes to go,

Irish flags, poetry and a performance from Niall Horan… this White House trip was another diplomatic success for Ireland “Every American president is a little bit Irish on St Patrick’s Day…but some are more Irish than others.” Those words, spoken by Leo Varadkar, were greeted by raucous cheers in the White House, and a broad

The home secretary is set to travel to Rwanda this weekend as the government’s deal to send asylum seekers to the country remains mired in legal challenges. It is 11 months since the UK agreed the deal, which would see people who claimed asylum in Britain deported to the central African nation to have their

A police officer has been found guilty of gross misconduct for using excessive force after she repeatedly struck former Aston Villa player Dalian Atkinson with a baton, a disciplinary panel has found. The tribunal found on Friday that Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith, a West Mercia officer, acted wrongly when she struck Mr Atkinson three times during

A police officer is to keep her job despite being found guilty of gross misconduct for using excessive force after she repeatedly struck former Aston Villa player Dalian Atkinson with a baton. A disciplinary panel found on Friday that PC Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith, a West Mercia officer, acted wrongly when she struck Mr Atkinson three

The Cure frontman Robert Smith says he has persuaded Ticketmaster to partially refund the “unduly high” fees being added to tickets for their US tour – in some cases adding up to more than the price of a ticket. The 63-year-old singer shared his frustration over the pricing on Twitter, telling his followers he was

Police were called after a member of the public found a body in a recycling bin. The grim discovery was made in Scalby, Scarborough, at 6am on Friday. Detectives and specialist teams are currently at the scene and a cordon is in place. Inquiries are ongoing, but officers do not believe there are any suspicious

Suella Braverman will travel to Rwanda on Friday, Sky News understands, as she seeks to bolster the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to the country if they arrive in the UK on small boats. The controversial policy was announced by Boris Johnson last year, but no one has been flown to the nation yet

The government will have to find money to increase public sector pay or face consequences in its services, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt outlined his spring budget on Wednesday, with promises of additional free childcare for working families and the scrapping of limits on pension pots to encourage people

The SNP’s national executive committee will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday morning amid a row over transparency, Sky News understands. It is likely this could lead to the membership figures being released after the party refused to meet demands from all three candidates vying to replace Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland’s first minister to publish

An American spy on secondment to GCHQ was stabbed last week by an alleged terrorist in the town where the UK intelligence agency is based, it has been reported. Counter-terrorism police have confirmed that a 29-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after a woman was stabbed outside a leisure centre in Cheltenham

A nurse tried to murder a baby just a day after a hospital executive refused to remove her from her duties despite staff concerns, a court has heard. Lucy Letby denies murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others on the neo-natal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June

After the debacle of Liz Truss’s September mini-budget, with all its mega ramifications, and an autumn statement eight weeks later that performed an about-turn so big that the country’s tax burden hit a 70-year-high, Wednesday’s budget will be all about stability and sticking to the plan. “No big bangs in this budget,” is how one

High-profile figures from sport and broadcasting appear to have poked fun at the BBC over its U-turn on the Gary Lineker impartiality row. After the corporation last Friday suspended the Match of the Day presenter, 62, for his tweets criticising the government’s migration policy, it has now agreed to allow him back on air this

King Charles has given his first Commonwealth Day address as monarch against the backdrop of protests at Westminster Abbey. The King urged the family of nations to “strive together” for the “global common good” at the annual service celebrating the Commonwealth. Other royals at the service included the Queen Consort, the Prince and Princess of

A climate change protester has been jailed for five weeks after blocking traffic on the M4. Stephen Pritchard, 63, was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court for his part in an Insulate Britain demonstration in 2021. He was convicted by a jury of causing a nuisance to the public when he, along with three others,

Rishi Sunak has said there are “no plans” to change a law which prevents the permanent return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece. The sculptures – also known as the Parthenon sculptures or marbles – were controversially removed from one of the world’s most historic monuments in Athens by British diplomat Lord Elgin in the early