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Boris Johnson has a “huge role to play” in the future of the Conservative Party, according to one cabinet minister, while a staunch ally of the ex-prime minister urged “the left” to leave him alone. The Conservative MPs were speaking following last week’s revelation that Mr Johnson’s diaries from when he was in Number 10

The Home Office is launching an ad campaign in Albania aimed at deterring people from crossing the English Channel illegally. Posters bear the message that people “face being detained and removed” if they make the journey. The department would not say how much the publicity drive is expected to cost but announced it will also

Police are hunting for a burglar who escaped from a prison van outside their Brixton station. Kwami Richards escaped from the van, operated by a private security firm, at around 2pm on Friday as he was being transported back to jail. The 42-year-old had been detained for breaching his licence conditions after serving a sentence

A body was found in a river in Lincolnshire on Friday during a search for a missing schoolboy, police have said. The teenager, named by police only as Oliwier, 15, was last seen near the bank of the River Trent at The Flood Road bridge in Gainsborough late on Monday evening. Police mounted a “round-the-clock

Carbon dioxide is the big villain of global warming. The “most wanted” for crimes against the climate that we’d love to lock up. In Merseyside and North Wales, they’re putting a posse together. It’s called HyNet and it’s a group of around 40 carbon-intensive industries like glass and cement, even breakfast cereals, crisps and proposed

Witnesses have described an “almighty smash” and officers with Tasers and “rifles” shouting at a man after a car drove into the Downing Street gates. One person was arrested after a hatchback hit the barrier at around 4.20pm. Video showed it crossing Whitehall, apparently from the direction of a Ministry of Defence car park opposite,

Police are photographing an excavation site near the banks of a remote reservoir in Portugal as the new search for Madeleine McCann enters a third day. Teams were seen early on Thursday cutting wood on the banks of a reservoir 30 miles from where the toddler went missing in the Algarve in May 2007. Officers

Police Scotland’s chief constable has admitted that the force is “institutionally racist and discriminatory”. Sir Iain Livingstone, who is set to retire later this year, said prejudice and bad behaviour within policing was “rightly of great concern and is utterly condemned”. Speaking at a meeting of the Scottish Police Authority on Thursday morning, Sir Iain

One in every five GP practices in England and Wales has closed since 2013, according to Sky News analysis of NHS data. Doctors are now warning that staff shortages are putting primary care provision at serious risk. Those practices that remain open are increasingly stretched thin amid rising numbers of patients and falling numbers of

Police have recovered a body from a river in the search for missing woman Shannon Canning. The 24-year-old was last seen in the early hours of Friday 19 May when she left her home address in Keswick Court, Lancaster. She was due to open the Tipple bar – where she works – in the city

The government believes it has secured a commitment from Jaguar Land Rover owner Tata to build a new gigafactory in the UK, Sky News has been told. Senior Whitehall sources believe the Indian industrial giant has chosen the UK over Spain as the site for its giant new battery factory. The news is due to

Love Island contestants will be banned from any social media activity to shield themselves and their families from online abuse while they stay in the villa this summer. ITV bosses have announced new duty of care procedures for the cast ahead of the hit reality show’s 10th season, due to start in a few weeks.

Boris Johnson has been referred to the police by the Cabinet Office over new claims he broke COVID lockdown rules. The former prime minister’s ministerial diary has revealed visits by friends to Chequers during the pandemic. The visits to the grace-and-favour residence were highlighted during preparations for a public inquiry into COVID, according to The

South Wales Police has referred itself to the policing watchdog as CCTV footage showed a police van following two people on an electric bike before a fatal crash which sparked a riot in Cardiff. Serious disorder broke out in the Ely area of the Welsh capital last night after the deaths of two boys, Kyrees

Lewis Capaldi has been memorialised in papier-mache, ping pong balls and bronze spray paint by pupils at his former school. Students at St Kentigern’s Academy in Blackburn, West Lothian, presented the singer with the sculpture, which principal art teacher Bryan Johnstone said was “intentionally bad, bizarre and odd-looking”. Capaldi described the statue as “the most

At 4.30am specialist officers gathered for a briefing. Their mission was to dismantle an organised crime group (OCG) responsible for the supply of class A drugs. The OCG being targeted were also suspected of kidnap and firearms offences. It’s estimated the gang have been making up to £20,000 a day dealing heroin and crack cocaine

Police have said they are dealing with “large-scale disorder” following a “serious” road traffic collision in Cardiff. Images from the scene showed a police car with its windscreen smashed and a number of officers in riot gear. There were also dozens of members of the public gathered at the crash site on Snowden Road in

A young survivor of the Manchester Arena attack has told Sky News how a doctor “asked her to leave” after asking for mental health support.  Ellie Taylor, who was 15 at the time of the attack, says she “broke down” after inadequate care left her feeling “retraumatised”. “The doctor said ‘it will take you two

Police are looking for a TikTok “prankster” who filmed himself appearing to enter a private home uninvited. Bacari Ogarro, who uses the name “Mizzy” online, has been widely criticised after videos of him circulated on social media. The Metropolitan Police now say they are carrying out enquires to track down the 18-year-old, from Hackney, north

A cancer patient who coaxed comedian Peter Kay out of retirement and met Michelle Obama as part of her bucket list has died aged 23. Laura Nuttall, from Barrowford in Lancashire, was given a year to live after being diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme – an aggressive brain cancer – in 2018. While undergoing private treatment