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Craig sits on the edge of his chair, his hands shaking as he looks blankly at the church wall. He’s fighting a withdrawal from crack and alcohol that rattles through his body. His eyes are empty, but you can sense the turmoil he’s fighting. Some 20 years of addiction has left him teetering on the

Sinead O’Connor was found unresponsive at her home in London and pronounced dead at the scene. Her next of kin have been notified, and her death is not being treated as suspicious. A file is now going to be prepared for the coroner. Read more: An unapologetic singer’s rise to stardom In a statement, the

Sinead O’Connor has died aged 56, according to Irish media. The singer was best known for her 1990 song Nothing Compares 2 U and released 10 studio albums. Her death comes after her 17-year-old son Shane died after he went missing last year. O’Connor paid tribute at the time, writing that he had “decided to

Last year’s multi record-breaking hot and dry weather will become “typical” in the UK in under 40 years, the Met Office has warned. The remarkable weather of last year – when almost every month was hotter than average, wildfires torched homes and more people died in the summer – was considered extreme. But by 2060

A five-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man have been found dead in a house in Leicester. The bodies were found at a property in Hopyard Close after police were called at 9pm on Monday 24 July. East Midlands Ambulance Service and the air ambulance also attended but both people were declared dead at the scene.

More than nine million people in England will be living with a major illness by 2040 – placing “additional demand” on the NHS and having “significant implications” for other public services, a report has warned. The number of adults with conditions such as cancer, diabetes and kidney disease will rise by 2.5 million – an

A British tourist has told how he escaped a “scene from Dante’s Inferno” thanks to a helicopter dowsing a path through a wildfire. Duncan Kemp was waiting for evacuation coaches to arrive at Lindian Village hotel, in Rhodes Bay, when the fire “jumped the road and began to burn in front of reception”. There were

Sea evacuations have begun from a beach in Corfu to transport individuals fleeing wildfires on the Greek island – as scores of Britons await repatriation flights out of Rhodes. Around 59 people have been evacuated from Nissaki beach on the northwest coast, the Greek Coast Guard has said. The evacuation involved six coast guard vessels

What Emily experienced when a previous relationship broke down was a living nightmare. Her ex-boyfriend harassed her relentlessly by phone and email after she told him she didn’t want to get back together. It was a terrifying experience. She told Sky News: “I was scared to go out. I kept turning off all my devices

Heavy rain is forecast in northern parts of England and Wales today, with the Met Office issuing a yellow weather warning. The area, which stretches from Holyhead in Wales to Scarborough and Carlisle in England, could see up to 20-30mm of rain fall during the day, with places on higher ground potentially getting as much

England have won their first Women’s World Cup match with a 1-0 victory over Haiti in Brisbane. It took 29 minutes for Georgia Stanway to push the Lionesses into the lead with a retaken penalty – aiming the ball low into the left corner of the net. England looked dominant from the start, with Alessia

England are hours away from kicking off their World Cup campaign down under with their opening match against Haiti. The Lionesses go into the tournament off the back of their Euro 2022 win last year and as one of the big favourites to lift the World Cup trophy in August. England sit 49 places above

All three leading political parties are turning their attention to next year’s general election after a mixed bag of results from Thursday’s ballot box contests. The Conservatives managed to hold former prime minister Boris Johnson’s seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip overnight, with Rishi Sunak saying the victory showed the next national vote was “not

Rishi Sunak has avoided a clean sweep of by-election defeats after holding onto Uxbridge and South Ruislip in a night of three votes. There had been pessimism in the Conservative Party that they would lose the west London seat, alongside Selby and Ainsty in north Yorkshire and Somerton and Frome in Somerset. But the vote

The chief executive of the banking group that owns Coutts has apologised to Nigel Farage after his account was closed. The former UKIP and Brexit Party leader claimed the elite bank took the action because his views did not align with the firm’s “values”. But reports in the BBC and Financial Times suggested it was

Unconscious with her hands cuffed behind her back, a woman is carried into a police cell. She is forced face-down onto a thin mattress. Police officers take off her jeans, cut off her knickers, pull a pair of oversized custody shorts over her legs, then remove her top and bra before leaving her alone and

NHS patients face major disruption over the next 48 hours as senior doctors in England begin their first major strike in nearly 50 years. Consultant doctors along with hospital-based dentists will strike over pay from 7am on Thursday until 7am on Saturday. It follows the longest period of industrial action in the history of the

The rate of price rises has dropped to 7.9% in the year up to June, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The consumer price index (CPI) measure of inflation shows prices are still rising, just at a slower pace than before, as the rate fell from 8.7% in the year to May. Another

One year since record-breaking temperatures hit the UK, new heatmaps published today visualise the dramatic cooling effect of trees in some urban areas. The maps paint a stark picture of how different communities suffer more or less from heat depending on the abundance of green space. The inner-city areas lacking parks and green canopies were

Two giant cruise ships set to house 1,000 asylum seekers were unable to find anywhere to dock and have been returned to their owners, a senior source has told Sky News. In June, Rishi Sunak announced the government acquired two more vessels, alongside the Bibby Stockholm barge – which arrived in Dorset today – as

Metropolitan Police officers are using counter-terrorism tactics to catch some of the worst predators targeting women on the streets of London. The force is using the Cambridge Crime Harm Index to assess 35,000 offenders reported each year for crimes against women and girls in a bid to rank the 100 who are most dangerous to

A new drug has been found to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s, with experts hailing it as a “turning point” in the fight against the disease. Donanemab was found to slow “clinical decline” by up to 35%, allowing people with Alzheimer’s to continue performing day-to-day tasks such as shopping, housekeeping, managing their finances and taking

The government has said it plans to cap the number of students accepted on to “rip-off” university degrees. The limits will be imposed on courses that have high dropout rates or a low proportion of graduates getting a professional job. Under the measures, the maximum fee that can be charged for classroom-based foundation year courses

Union boss Mick Lynch has said Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has to show he is “on the side of the people” before the next general election. The general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union criticised Sir Keir and the Labour Party when asked about how long strikes on the railway could

Kemi Badenoch has signed off UK membership to a major Indo-Pacific trade bloc. The business and trade secretary signed the accession protocol to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) in New Zealand on Sunday. The move brings British businesses a step closer to being able to sell to a market of half

Just Stop Oil protesters have invaded the stage during the first night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. The environmental group tweeted: “The pair set off confetti cannons and sounded air horns, demanding the UK government immediately halt all new oil and gas consents and licences. “They attempted to address the audience before

Keyhole surgery is perhaps a misleading term: despite the technology, expertise and extreme finesse involved, it’s also hugely physical.  Sky News watches as surgeon Luke Jones performs an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in an operating theatre in King Edward VII’s hospital in central London. Mr Jones (male surgeons are referred to as Mr rather than

Former Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of rape and attempted rape. The France international was accused of raping a 24-year-old woman in a bedroom at his multi-million-pound mansion in Cheshire in October 2020. He was also charged with the attempted rape of a 29-year-old woman at his home two years

MPs with second jobs have an average wage of £233 per hour, Sky News can reveal. The typical rate for MPs is 17 times the national average – and over 22 higher than the minimum hourly wage. The highest hourly rate for a current MP goes to Liz Truss, who got £15,770 per hour. Ms

Millions of UK public sector workers, including teachers and doctors, will get pay rises of about 6% after Rishi Sunak decided to accept the recommendations of independent pay review bodies. The bodies had suggested pay rises of between 6% and 6.5% for 2023-24, at a potential cost of £5bn. Mr Sunak met Jeremy Hunt, the

Huw Edwards has been accused of sending inappropriate messages to BBC employees. The newsreader was named yesterday as the presenter who had been suspended for allegedly paying £35,000 to a teenager in exchange for sexually explicit images. According to Newsnight, one current BBC staff member claims they were contacted on social media by Edwards, and

The BBC is facing increasing pressure after fresh allegations were made against an unnamed presenter. The star was suspended over the weekend after The Sun claimed that he had paid tens of thousands of pounds to a young person in exchange for sexually explicit photographs. But on Tuesday, three other allegations emerged, with BBC host

A man who killed a nine-year-old girl by stabbing her in the heart as she played in the street has been given an indefinite hospital order. Deividas Skebas was unanimously found to have physically committed the act of killing Lilia Valutyte, despite a court deciding he was unfit to plead or face a conventional trial