Annual energy bills could reach £4,347 for an average household after the government announced the two-year price freeze will now run for just six months. New chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the universal energy price guarantee will finish next April, with a review being launched on how to then support bills after this period. The government
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Around 34,000 homes may be inundated because of extreme flooding in southeast Australia, according to an official comment made on Monday. Some towns are now facing their highest river peak for decades, including the most severely affected state of Victoria. Murray Watt, the federal emergency management minister, told Australian Broadcasting Corp: “It’s quite likely we’ll
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Russian forces will soon be down to their last supplies of fuel and unable to transport their troops in Ukraine after the crippling attack on the Kerch Bridge between Crimea and Russia, say analysts. President Vladimir Putin will have hoped his recent missile onslaught across Ukraine had projected an image of strength, but has been
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Financial markets have reacted positively to the new chancellor’s cull of more costly measures in his predecessor’s disastrous mini-budget. Jeremy Hunt revealed in a televised statement that he would no longer be proceeding with almost all the controversial package, including the reduction in the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 19% from next
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Somalia is fighting a battle on all fronts: drought, disease and conflict. The country is experiencing its driest season in 40 years forcing more than a million people to flee to camps, not far from where al Qaeda-linked terror group al Shabaab is fighting to maintain its territory. On the Sky News Daily podcast Niall
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A key bridge connecting the Russian mainland to annexed Crimea has been partially destroyed in an explosion. A massive blast, which Russia has attributed to a truck bomb, tore one section of the bridge apart early Saturday morning – one day after Vladimir Putin’s 70th birthday. #Russia #Ukraine #Crimea SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for
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Russia’s nuclear weapons threat in Ukraine appears to have made Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline even more determined to win. One soldier told Sky News “I am ready to die. If it happens, it happens” while out on patrol with his comrades in Donetsk. For the latest developments in Ukraine: https://qrcode.skynews.com/skynews/ukraineblog #ukraine #vladimirputin #nuclearwar #ukraine
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