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A police officer has admitted misconduct in public office after stealing £115 from a man who died suddenly after collapsing. Metropolitan Police officer Craig Carter, 51, took the money from a wallet which had belonged to Claudio Gaetani between 7 and 14 September 2022. Carter, of Harlow, Essex, admitted the stolen cash had been “received

Police have launched a criminal investigation after an officer was filmed deliberately driving a patrol car into an escaped cow. The 10-month-old calf was on the loose in Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, when police used a vehicle to stop the animal. Footage of the incident went viral last month and soon sparked outrage – with then home

The NHS has issued a national alert over shortages of certain blood types. National stocks of O negative and O positive blood have fallen to “unprecedentedly low levels” with increased demand from hospitals and high levels of unfilled donor appointments creating “a perfect storm”, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said. The alert means blood stocks

A Doctor Who superfan is looking for a new home for his beloved Dalek in exchange for a donation to charity in memory of his late father. Davie Kirkwood, 60, is moving home and will part with the life-sized replica of one of the Time Lord’s most fearsome enemies if the pledge to Parkinson’s UK

A police officer has been stabbed in the chest at a prison. The officer is “conscious and talking” in hospital after the incident this morning at Frankland Prison, Durham Police said. He was visiting the Category A men’s prison from an outside force. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) related crime rose by almost 40% between 2018 and 2023, to “staggering” levels amounting to a “national emergency”, according to a leading female police chief. More than a million crimes against women or girls were recorded by police between 2022 and 2023, but a report commissioned by the National

The police search for the remains of murdered Muriel McKay has been called off. In a letter to her family, Katherine Godwin, Detective Superintendent in the Met Police, said: “We have now completed the search of the area set out in the agreed parameters, along with an additional strip which we identified was not covered

There is a “considerable backlog” in GP practices following the global IT outage and lots of work has been “shifted into the coming week”, a senior doctor has warned. “Normal service cannot be resumed immediately,” said Dr David Wrigley, deputy chair of the BMA’s GPs committee for England. He described the outage as an “unprecedented

Independent pay review bodies have reportedly told ministers millions of public sector workers should be given a 5.5% increase in pay. The proposed above-inflation increase for teachers and around 1.3 million NHS staff, reported by The Times, is well above the figure the government is thought to have been preparing for. Sir Keir Starmer’s government

Police who tweeted a Top Gun gif to celebrate identifying a woman’s dead body are now being scrutinised by another force after a police watchdog report criticised the investigation into her death. The review by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) suggested that detectives at Kent Police did not properly collect, record or evaluate

These Year 9 pupils in the Vale of Glamorgan have never known a time when they could bring their phones to school. Whitmore High School in Barry implemented a mobile phone ban three years ago. And members of the school’s pupil voice group who spoke to Sky News said they welcomed the move. “It was

Reversing the last government’s decision to cancel or reduce some climate policies would help tackle the cost of living and cut bills, the UK’s climate watchdog has said. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) said there was “no evidence” for Rishi Sunak’s claims last year that watering down climate measures would save people money, and said

George has not been to school for the last two years. He is autistic, which means he has special educational needs that requires a school to give him extra support to help him learn. And even though he as a legal document which outlines exactly the kind of support he should be receiving, his mum

Rescue workers searching for missing British teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife have found a body and are trying to identify it, Spanish police have told Sky News. “Evidence strongly suggests” the remains are those of the 19-year-old, officers added. Police said in a statement: “The mountain rescue and intervention group of the Civil Guard has

England’s footballers have begun their journey home after a heart-breaking defeat to Spain in the final of Euro 2024. Emerging from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Berlin, where they had been staying, team members and coaching staff were clapped out by watching fans and staff as they made their way to the coach. Manager Gareth Southgate

Police will today start digging in a new search for the remains of Muriel McKay, the wealthy murder victim who was kidnapped 55 years ago. They will spend a week at the Hertfordshire farm where Mrs McKay, the wife of a newspaper executive, was held for a £1m ransom before her kidnappers were arrested and

World leaders have joined together to condemn “political violence” after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. The former president was shot and injured during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in an attack that saw a spectator and the gunman killed. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he was “appalled by the shocking scenes”, as

The Euro 2024 trophy is within grasping distance, and England fans are here for it. Football final fever has gripped Berlin, with an outpouring of positive vibes for the Three Lions. “Come on England! Lamine Yamal, he’s going to get locked up,” two young brothers tell me. Near the Brandenburg Gate fans carry or hang

An image of a man police want to speak to over the murder of a teenager in north London has been released, as officers urge the public to “do the right thing”. Deshaun James Tuitt, 15, was fatally stabbed in Highbury Fields, north London, just before 9pm on 4 August 2022. He later died in

A murder investigation has been launched after the body of a newborn baby girl was found in a bin. Police were alerted on Monday afternoon to reports of a woman presenting at hospital who had given birth. In response, officers went to a property in Taviton Street, Camden, where, following a search, the baby’s body