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The disappearance of a mother-of-three a decade ago is now being treated as murder. Lisa Pour was 40 when she went missing in January 2013. She was last seen by a probation officer in Willesden Green in northwest London. Detectives now believe she is dead and the Metropolitan Police’s specialist crime command is investigating. Ms

Nigel Farage has called on MPs to hold an inquiry into NatWest after one of the group’s banks, Coutts, closed his account. The former UKIP and Brexit Party leader has claimed the elite bank took the action because his views did not align with the firm’s “values”. But other media reports suggested it was down

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

Some grocery stores are failing to display prices as clearly as they should, the consumer watchdog has warned. The Competition and Markets Authority says this could be preventing shoppers from being able to compare prices. However, it said evidence suggests historically high food price inflation has not been driven by weak competition among supermarkets. The

Average mortgage rates have fallen for the first time in months. Both two and five-year fixed-rate deals have dropped, according to data from financial information company Moneyfacts. The average rate on a two-year fixed deal is now 6.79%, down from 6.81%, while the average five-year rate dipped to 6.31%, a decrease from 6.33%. Rates haven’t

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

A corrupt Metropolitan Police officer known as “the Sheriff of Soho” has been jailed for seven-and-a-half-years after being found guilty of taking bribes. Former sergeant Frank Partridge formed inappropriate relationships with nightclub owners and security bosses while tasked with policing the night life of London’s West End between 2013 and 2015. The 50-year-old was treated

A man and woman found dead at a shooting school on Friday have been named by their families as Robert Jobson, 84, and Rose Jobson, 69. Humberside Police have launched a murder inquiry but are not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident. Officers were called to White Lodge Shooting School near the

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

Police bodycam footage has been released showing a dog attack – taken moments before the animal was tasered and put into a wheelie bin by officers. The footage, taken during the incident in Coventry on Tuesday, shows the dog attacking other dogs while people nervously attempt to separate the animals. It was released by West

The Ministry of Defence must admit its ability to arm the military is broken and urgently needs fixing at a time of growing security threats, a group of MPs has warned. The damning verdict emerged as Ben Wallace, who has overseen the department for the past four years as the longest-serving Conservative defence secretary, revealed

Local councils are calling for disposable vapes to be banned in the UK by next year on environmental and health grounds. The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents councils in England and Wales, has said it is “crucial” a ban comes into force “rapidly” to stop a flood of single-use vapes into the UK market.

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

Two teenagers have been sentenced to a total of 34 years in prison for the murder of 16-year-old Ronan Kanda. Pradjeet Veadhasa and Sukhman Shergill – who can be named for the first time after reporting restrictions were lifted – were convicted of murdering Ronan in May. The youth was stabbed close to his family

Thousands of children with special educational needs or disabilities are missing out on the education they are entitled to because of huge delays in the system designed to support them. A record half a million pupils now have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) – a legal document setting out a child or young

He is one of the BBC’s most high-profile presenters and its top newsreader. Now Huw Edwards finds himself the subject of some unwelcome headlines after being named as the broadcaster accused of paying a teenager £35,000 for explicit pictures. As well as hosting the corporation’s flagship News at Ten for the past 20 years, he

The BBC presenter who allegedly paid a teenager more than £35,000 for sexually explicit pictures has been named as Huw Edwards. He was named by his wife Vicky Flind in a statement issued on his behalf. Huw Edwards – latest: BBC presenter ‘suffering serious mental health issues’ She said her husband was “suffering from serious

Broadcaster Jeremy Vine has said he believes the BBC presenter accused of paying a teenager thousands of pounds for sexually explicit photos “should now come forward publicly”. The BBC Radio 2 broadcaster made the remarks after a second person came forward with a complaint about the unnamed presenter. The individual in their early 20s told