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The BBC has removed a video of a teenager accused of murdering three girls in Southport after it emerged he starred in a Children in Need advert. A spokesman for BBC Children in Need said the clip was removed across all platforms “out of respect” for the victims. “Our deepest sympathies go out to everyone

The BBC was aware former newsreader Huw Edwards had been arrested over the most serious category of indecent images of children since last November, the corporation’s director general said. Edwards was arrested in November 2023 while he was suspended from the BBC after allegations were published in The Sun about an unnamed presenter paying a

A police unit will be set up to tackle violent disorder across the country after rioting by far-right groups in the wake of the Southport stabbings, the prime minister has announced. Sir Keir Starmer said he would not allow a “breakdown of law and order on our streets” following violent scenes in Southport, Hartlepool and

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy will hold an urgent meeting with BBC boss Tim Davie over his handling of the Huw Edwards case. Edwards, who was the BBC’s highest-paid newsreader before he resigned in April, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children on Wednesday. Questions have been raised over the BBC’s handling

Police searching for a teenager who went missing after his kayak capsized in a waterway in Norfolk say they have found a body. Officers launched a search after an 18-year-old boy fell into the water at Middle Level Main Drain in Wiggenhall St Germans at around 3.50pm on Sunday. “While formal identification is yet to

A police van has been set on fire and officers have been injured in disorder outside a Southport mosque – with the chaos erupting in the wake of a knife attack that left three girls dead in the Merseyside town. A crowd of men, many wearing masks and hoodies, have been in a running battle

The King has said he and the Queen are “profoundly shocked” by the “utterly horrific” knife attack which killed two children in Southport. He said: “My wife and I have been profoundly shocked to hear of the utterly horrific incident in Southport today. “We send our most heartfelt condolences, prayers and deepest sympathies to the

Sir Andy Murray’s career was rescued from the brink as he and Dan Evans saved five match points to win their doubles opener at the Olympics. The British tennis great said before the tournament it would be his last ever competition. In one of his best comebacks, Murray and Evans recovered from losing the first

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