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The 19-year-old woman who died after she was attacked by a dog at a flat in Bristol on Wednesday has been named as Morgan Dorsett from Shropshire. Two people – a man and a woman both aged in their 20s – have been arrested over the attack and have been released on conditional bail. Initial

The Baltic states are “very unhappy” after the UK failed to invite their leaders to join a summit on Ukraine this weekend, a European diplomatic source has said. The source, with knowledge of the situation, warned that Moscow would notice with interest that Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have been excluded. “Russia and our publics will

Home video of Eleanor Williams shows a happy teenager; dancing, singing into a bottle, joking with her sister, and making others laugh. A marked contrast to the videos that came to define her. Warning: This article contains references to sexual abuse and violence Five years ago, police bodyworn camera footage showed a battered and drugged

With Donald Trump, it’s all about relationships. Going into this bilateral summit, those around Sir Keir Starmer were stressing that these guys genuinely got on well, they liked each other, and that the prime minister could say things to Mr Trump in private and not get his head blown off. What we saw today was

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer brushed aside growing tensions between the White House and Europe over Ukraine on Wednesday, saying he trusted Donald Trump and wanted the “special relationship” to go “from strength to strength”. Speaking to reporters ahead of a crucial meeting at the White House, Sir Keir insisted that the UK was working

The government has signalled that plans to bring a second runway at Gatwick into regular use will get the green light if environmental conditions are met. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said she was “minded to approve” the airport’s plans but the deadline for a decision had now been pushed back until the end of October.

A man has been charged after a three-year-old died in a crash in Manchester on Saturday. The girl, who died following the incident involving a tram and a van, was named as Louisa ‘Lulu’ Palmisano, from Burnley. In a statement, Greater Manchester Police said Rawal Rehman, 35, from Manchester, had been charged with causing death

The body of a British businessman who went missing in Kenya more than a week ago was reportedly found in a sack of pineapples in a forest. Campbell Scott, believed to be from Dunfermline in Fife, Scotland, was last seen attending a conference at the JW Marriot Hotel in the capital Nairobi on 16 February.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said Runcorn needs a new Labour MP after Mike Amesbury was jailed for beating up a constituent – and will keep his £91,000 MPs salary in prison. She told Wilfred Frost on Sky News Breakfast: “Whether it is resigning or through recall, everyone’s clear – the people of Runcorn deserve

A teenager who admitted killing his mother and two younger siblings was plotting a school shooting, it can now be reported. Nicholas Prosper, 19, appeared at Luton Crown Court over the deaths of Juliana Falcon, 48, Giselle Prosper, 13, and Kyle Prosper, 16. Their bodies were found at a flat in Leabank, off Wauluds Bank

Russian oligarchs with links to the Kremlin can now be banned from the UK, the government has announced as part of a fresh sanctions package on the third anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The Home Office said “elites” linked to the Russian state can now be prevented from entering the UK under the

Two motorways were shut on Saturday evening for several hours after human remains were found on the carriageway.  Several drivers called police from 6.40pm to report “something in the road” between junctions 20 and 21 of the M4 – between Almondsbury and Awkley. The body is believed to be that of a man in his

A body has been found in the search for 23-year-old runner Jenny Hall.  She was last seen leaving her home in Barracks Farm, County Durham, in her car just after 3pm on Tuesday. Police said there are not thought to be any suspicious circumstances after a body was found in a very remote area in

Police are searching for a van driver who fled the scene of a Manchester city centre collision in which a three-year-old girl was killed. The girl, a pedestrian, died after a collision between a tram and a van at about 10am on Saturday morning. The tram forced the van onto the footpath on Mosley Street,

Camping, chaos, and confrontation. A wave of pro-Palestinian student protest engulfed UK universities last year when thousands protested against the war in Gaza. Most started out peacefully on encampments with students pitching tents on university greens. Now new evidence, uncovered by Sky News and Liberty Investigates, has shed some light on how some of those

A man has been found guilty of attempted murder for attacking author Sir Salman Rushdie. The 77-year-old British-American writer was stabbed multiple times as he was preparing to give a speech in New York in 2022. He was blinded in his right eye in the incident, suffered a severely damaged hand, and spent months recovering.

A woman has been charged with stalking Madeleine McCann’s family. Julia Wandel, 23, also known as Julia Wandelt, from Poland, was arrested at Bristol Airport on Wednesday, Leicestershire Police said. She is accused of stalking causing serious alarm or distress against Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry McCann between 2 May last year and 15 February

The British Army’s failure to properly deal with a soldier’s sexual assault complaint played “more than a minimal” role in her death, a coroner has said. Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck, 19, was found dead in her room at Larkhill Camp in Wiltshire on 15 December 2021. An inquest on Thursday recorded a conclusion of

The suspect in the fatal shooting of a woman outside a pub in Kent is believed to be dead, police have said. Lisa Smith, 43, was killed after she was shot outside a pub in Main Road, Knockholt, on the evening of Friday 14 February. A car, driven by a man known to Lisa, was

A British journalist has gone missing in Brazil, according to an association of foreign correspondents in the country, which is calling for authorities to step up the search. Charlotte Alice Peet, 32, told a friend she was in Sao Paulo on 8 February but was planning to go to Rio de Janeiro before she disappeared.