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A murder investigation has been launched after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death. Police were called at 4pm on Thursday to a home on Lovett Avenue in the West Midlands market town of Oldbury. West Midlands Police say a team of detectives is investigating. Detective Superintendent Shaun Edwards, from the force’s homicide team, said:

A teenager has been found guilty of stabbing a 15-year-old girl to death in the street after following her for 45 minutes. Holly Newton was left with 36 knife injuries after an attack in the Priestpopple area of Hexham, Northumberland, in January last year. A 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named, admitted a charge of

A man who used a wheelchair has been stabbed to death in east London. Jade Anthony Barnett, 38, was attacked on Wednesday afternoon and two men have since been arrested. The Metropolitan Police said officers were called at 3.38pm on Wednesday to reports of a fight in Rushmore Road, Clapton, and found a man with

Three people have been killed in a road collision in Anglesey, police have confirmed. North Wales Police say it responded to the incident in the town of Beaumaris shortly after 2.45pm on Wednesday. Police attended Alma Street, close to Beaumaris Pier, along with ambulance and air ambulance crews. Officers say work is continuing to establish

The chancellor has refused to rule out inheritance and capital gains tax rises after Sir Keir Starmer warned the autumn budget will be “painful”. Rachel Reeves would not answer “yes” or “no” three times when asked on Wednesday if she could specifically rule out raising the two taxes at the budget this October. The previous

The October budget will be “painful”, Sir Keir Starmer has said, giving the biggest hint yet of tax rises. Speaking from Downing Street, the prime minister said: “I will be honest with you, there is a budget coming in October and it’s going to be painful.” He added: “Just as when I responded to the

Listening to Noel Gallagher over the years, for a long time it didn’t feel like this was part of the masterplan. He has spoken several times of the difficult decision he made to quit Oasis in 2009. The band was his life and the choice not made lightly, but ending things then was the best

Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has died at the age of 76, his family has said. Eriksson had pancreatic cancer and at the beginning of the year revealed he only had a year to live “at best”. “Sven-Goran Eriksson has passed away,” his family said in a statement. “After a long illness, SGE died during

Over 200 firefighters are responding to a blaze in Dagenham, east London, as two people have been taken to hospital. Parts of the ground to sixth floors, scaffolding surrounding the tower block, and the roof caught fire overnight. Plumes of smoke could be seen rising into the sky as 40 fire engines and 225 firefighters

A British citizen has been found dead after a Russian airstrike in eastern Ukraine, local authorities say. The Briton was found dead under the rubble of Hotel Sapfir in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Sunday, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty reports. A Russian missile struck the building on 24 August, which was Ukraine’s

Sir Keir Starmer will warn life in the UK is “going to get worse” before it improves in his first major speech as prime minister. Sir Keir will mark a week before Parliament returns after a shortened summer recess by continuing his attacks on the previous government, saying things are “worse than we ever imagined”.

A woman found dead in her flat in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, was the victim of a “heinous and evil” attack, police said. A fire was reported at a bottom-floor flat on Harvey Street, Londonderry, at around 4.15am on Saturday. Emergency services found the woman – believed to be aged in her 40s to 60s –

Former footballer Jermaine Jenas has been sacked by the BBC over allegations of inappropriate behaviour. While he was on air on a radio show on Thursday, the BBC announced the One Show co-host and Match Of The Day pundit, 41, was “no longer part of our presenting line-up”. The news of his sacking broke moments

Jermaine Jenas has admitted to sending “inappropriate messages” to women after he was sacked by the BBC. The former footballer, who worked as a pundit on Match Of The Day and was a co-host of The One Show before his BBC contract was terminated over allegations about his behaviour, insisted “nothing physical ever happened” but

A man arrested on suspicion of murder after a house fire killed a mother and her three children was the ex-partner of a woman visiting the family, police have said. Bryonie Gawith, also known as B, and her three children – Denisty, 9, Oscar, 5, and 22-month-old Aubree Birtle – died in a house fire

A lung cancer patient has become the first in the UK to receive a new experimental vaccine to help his body fight the disease. Janusz Racz, 67, had six syringes of the jab, each containing genetic material for a different part of the tumour, to train five billion cells in his immune system to go

British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been confirmed as among the dead after a superyacht sank off Sicily this week. The Italian coastguard said the bodies of Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloomer and US lawyer Christopher Morvillo had also been recovered, along with those of their wives, Judy Bloomer and Neda Morvillo. Mr Lynch’s 18-year-old

The search operation to find those missing after the sinking of the Bayesian superyacht has been plagued with difficulties. Six bodies have been found after the luxury vessel went down off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of Monday, with one person still unaccounted for. Here, Sky News looks at the factors that

The British mother who says she held her baby daughter above the waves as the yacht sank near Sicily was sleeping on deck as the storm hit, an Italian doctor has said. Charlotte Golunski was among 22 people on board the Bayesian when a tornado struck on Monday morning, with one dead and another six

They were a group brought together by one goal: to defy the odds and win Mike Lynch’s case. The protracted legal battle started when Hewlett-Packard, the technology company, accused Mr Lynch of fraud by overstating the value of his company Autonomy when he sold it to them in 2011. The trial saw Mr Lynch, 59,