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Five children who travelled to Pakistan with the father and step-mother of 10-year-old Sara Sharif will be taken into the custody of the Child Protection and Welfare Bureau, a judge has ruled. The children, aged between one and 13, were recovered from the house of Sara’s grandfather in the northeastern city of Jhelum on Monday

Almost a third of NHS female surgical staff have been sexually assaulted, including rape, in the last five years, a new survey has revealed. The study, published in the British Journal of Surgery (BJS), examined sexual misconduct over the past five years among the UK surgical workforce and found that 63% of women and 23%

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a two-year-old girl who was found in a pond in Hampshire. The child was reported missing from her home in Kingsley, near Bordon, shortly after 5pm on Sunday. Following a search for the toddler, she was found in Kingsley Pond and taken

The home secretary is seeking “urgent advice” about banning American XL Bully dogs as footage shows one of the animals attacking an 11-year-old girl and a man in Birmingham. Suella Braverman has said the animals are a “clear and lethal” danger after the video of the attack in Bordesley Green emerged on the social media

An inmate has been stabbed at HMP Wandsworth just days after a terror suspect escaped from the prison. The man is in a critical condition and was taken to a major trauma centre by ambulance after emergency services were called just after 3pm. An air ambulance was also sent to the scene. It is understood

About 40 prisoners have been moved out of Wandsworth prison after the escape of terror suspect Daniel Khalife. Justice Secretary Alex Chalk told Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips that inmates were moved “out of an abundance of caution”. Khalife, 21, was arrested on Saturday after 75 hours on the run. Politics Live: Justice

A former soldier accused of terrorism has been caught in Chiswick, west London, after escaping from prison under a food truck. Following several sightings of Daniel Khalife overnight, police apprehended him just before 11am. He is now in police custody and police say they will provide more information on his arrest in due course. Armed

There is a confirmed sighting of escaped terror suspect Daniel Khalife in southwest London on Wednesday morning, police have said. The 21-year-old former soldier is thought to have been seen fleeing a lorry at Wandsworth Roundabout, about a mile from Wandsworth Prison, the Metropolitan Police said. Officers have received about 100 calls from the public

Escaped prisoner Daniel Abed Khalife is likely to survive on scavenged food and drink – but the increased adrenaline of a police chase may cause him to slip up and get caught, experts have told Sky News. Since breaking out of HMP Wandsworth under a food delivery vehicle on Wednesday morning, Khalife will have been

Police have been scouring Richmond Park for fugitive terror suspect Daniel Abed Khalife, Sky News understands. Officers were stationed at key entry and exit points into the early hours of Friday – with two police helicopters overhead. Richmond Park was closed during the operation, and the investigation has now been paused until daylight. Image: Daniel

There have been no confirmed sightings of fugitive Daniel Abed Khalife since he escaped Wandsworth prison despite receiving more than 50 calls from the public. The 21-year-old former soldier working in the kitchen was wearing a chef’s uniform when he broke out of the Category B prison by holding on to straps underneath a food

Police in Pakistan have raided at least 20 homes nationwide as they search for Sara Sharif’s family, Sky News understands. According to Sky’s Inzamam Rashid, the raids were concentrated in Jhelum and Mirpur – and are ongoing. The 10-year-old’s father Urfan Sharif and her stepmother Beinash Batool are believed to have travelled to the country

A former member of the British Army has escaped from Wandsworth prison while on remand facing trial for terror and Official Secrets Act offences. The Metropolitan Police have issued an urgent appeal to trace Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, who is believed to have made his getaway on Wednesday morning. He was last seen wearing a

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has come under fire from colleagues for her “unilateral” decision to determine which school buildings need to close as part of the concrete crisis, Sky News has learned. Ministers elsewhere in Whitehall fear she has opened a “Pandora’s box” by setting a more cautious than necessary standard that could affect a

Air traffic control officials have revealed details of what caused widespread disruption that affected thousands of passengers stuck at airports. The National Air Traffic Services (NATS) previously said an initial investigation found the problems were caused by flight data which its system “didn’t understand” and “couldn’t interpret”. And the organisation said, in a preliminary report

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has defended being on holiday during the summer – despite there being further evidence of the use of unsafe concrete in buildings. Ms Keegan was on holiday in Spain from 25 August to 31 August when she admitted that three new cases of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) emerged – one

Florrie hated school so much it made it her ill. She would cry in her bedroom every morning and plead with her mum not to take her. “Going to school was like a massive weight on my shoulders,” says Florrie. “School was chaos. Hundreds of kids running around corridors pushing and shoving. It was a

Government ministers have been told to “get a grip” on their plans to make schools safe from aerated concrete as millions of pupils return to school this week. More than 100 schools and colleges have been told by the government to fully or partially shut buildings due to the presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete

A boy thrown from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery is now mostly out of his wheelchair, his family says. The French youngster, who was six at the time of the attack, survived the 100ft (30m) fall but suffered life-changing injuries, including a bleed on the brain and broken bones in August

A return to pandemic-style home learning for school pupils impacted by the unsafe concrete crisis should only last “days, not weeks”, the government has said. More than 100 schools and colleges have been told by the Department for Education (DfE) to partially or fully shut buildings – just days before the start of the new