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A victim of serial rapist policeman David Carrick has told Sky News how he used his job as a firearms officer to gain her trust before subjecting her to months of physical and mental abuse, telling her: “The safest place you can be is with me.” This article contains details of abuse that some people

Snow is likely to cause power cuts and road closures in parts of the UK, with forecasters expecting drivers to be left stranded, some communities to be cut off and flights and trains to be cancelled. A series of new weather warnings have been issued for large swathes of the country, with Scotland set to

A controversial anti-strike bill has moved a step closer to becoming law – hours after teachers and nurses announced fresh walkouts. Under the government’s draft Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, the right to strike would be restricted by imposing minimum service levels and bosses would be legally able to fire employees who ignore a “work

A serving Metropolitan Police officer has pleaded guilty to a string of sexual offences including 24 rape charges. PC David Carrick – who was known to his colleagues as “B*****d Dave” – entered guilty pleas when he appeared at London’s Southwark Crown Court on Monday. The 48-year-old was charged with 49 offences against 12 women

CCTV footage captured near the scene of a shooting outside a memorial service in London shows the sense of panic in the area as people fled the scene screaming. In the video obtained by Sky News, a gunshot can be heard and a dark car is seen driving down Phoenix Road, near Euston Station. Following

Suspects in a shooting outside a church in north London yesterday fired a shotgun from a moving car at the crowd of mourners, police investigating the attack have said. Superintendent Jack Rowlands of the Metropolitan Police described the shooting on Saturday afternoon as a “senseless act of violence” and said officers were looking for a

A seven-year-old girl is in a life-threatening condition, while four women and another girl were also taken to hospital, after a shooting outside a funeral near Euston station in central London. The Metropolitan Police said officers were called to Phoenix Road at 1.30pm on Saturday to reports of a shooting. Police initially said the seven-year-old

A woman mauled to death at a Surrey beauty spot was attacked by “multiple dogs” and screamed at passers-by to “turn back”, a witness has said. Paramedics were unable to save the 28-year-old victim after she was attacked at Gravelly Hill, Caterham, on Thursday. A second woman who received treatment for dog bites has since

Patients are dying and staff are broken – as workers say it doesn’t get much grimmer than this. The human toll at the sharp end of the worst health crisis in Scotland’s NHS history continues to escalate to dangerous levels. Families, who have lost loved ones on trollies in overcrowded hospital corridors, have told Sky

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of 26-year-old Elle Edwards, who was shot dead at a pub on Christmas Eve. Connor Chapman appeared at Wirral Magistrates’ Court on Friday morning and was remanded in custody to appear at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday. The 22-year-old has also been charged with two

Average ambulance response times in England last month were the longest on record – as more than half of people at major A&Es had to wait longer than four hours for the first time since records began in 2011. New figures show the average response time in December for ambulances in England dealing with the

Boris Johnson has become the number one most donated to MP this parliament after receiving a single donation of one million pounds. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had previously been the most donated to MP with £740,000 in multiple donations, Sky News’ Westminster Accounts tool showed. But the money from Brexiteer and crypto investor Christopher

The “scandal” of MPs’ earnings from second jobs and donations exposed by Sky News’ Westminster Accounts project “needs to end” through “root-and-branch” reform, the SNP has said. The party’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn told Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates that the findings of the investigation should “ring alarm bells for everyone” and demonstrate

About 25,000 ambulance workers across England and Wales are striking today in a dispute with the government over pay, amid fears some patients will be forced to make their own way to hospital. Staggered walkouts are taking place over a 24-hour period and will include paramedics, call handlers, drivers and technicians from the Unison and

The family of one of the British aid workers missing in Ukraine have said they are “very worried and concerned” about his health and whereabouts. Chris Parry, 28, was last seen on Friday morning leaving Kramatorsk for Soledar with fellow Briton Andrew Bagshaw before contact was lost. In a statement his family said: “We are

Amazon has revealed plans to shut three UK warehouses, a decision that will affect 1,200 jobs, but open two new major fulfilment centres. Sites in Hemel Hempstead, Doncaster and Gourock, in the west of Scotland, have been proposed for closure. A spokesman said all the workers would be offered roles at other existing Amazon locations.

The UK is considering supplying Ukraine with British tanks for the first time to fight Russia’s invading forces, Sky News understands. Discussions have been taking place “for a few weeks” about delivering a number of the British Army’s Challenger 2 main battle tank to the Ukrainian armed forces, a Western source with knowledge of the

MPs have been accused of failing to provide “sufficient” transparency after a Sky News investigation struggled to uncover basic details about who is behind major donations. Among the top donors to individual politicians are companies where little detail was provided in the MPs’ declarations about who they are, who is in charge and where they

Prince Harry has accused members of the Royal Family of getting in “bed with the devil” over their links with the tabloid press – and admitted Meghan did not get on with William and Kate “from the get-go”. In an interview with ITV, the Duke of Sussex claimed he did not have “any intention to

MPs have earned £17.1m on top of their salaries in this parliament, with around two-thirds of the money going to just 20 MPs. As part of Westminster Accounts, a joint project between Sky News and Tortoise Media to shine a light on how money works in politics, we found the majority of the extra earnings