Boris Johnson has said that people who come into close contact with anyone who tests positive for coronavirus with the new Omicron variant will have to...
No cases of the new COVID variant have been detected in the UK, but it is highly likely it has now spread beyond southern Africa, the...
A rare red “danger to life” weather warning has been issued by the Met Office for Storm Arwen – with winds so strong they could destroy...
Britain is bringing in travel restrictions for six African countries due to a new COVID variant that UK experts have called the “worst one we’ve seen...
The number of COVID cases the UK has seen since the start of the pandemic has passed 10 million, official figures show. According to government data,...
An alleged victim of a Hull grooming gang has told how she was bitten, beaten and burned during a violent rape – and that police and...
A new and more infectious version of the Delta variant now accounts for 15% of coronavirus cases in the UK, according to the latest government data....
Those who kill emergency service members will face mandatory life sentences after the government decided to back a law change prompted by the death of PC...
Scotland will not be expanding vaccine passports to pubs, cinemas and theatres, Nicola Sturgeon has announced. There had been speculation that the scheme would be extended...
A man is facing life in jail for murdering a vulnerable woman after following her off a bus in east London. Maria Rawlings, 45, suffered multiple...
The UK could be hit by a wetter-than-normal winter with households urged to be prepared for the risk of flooding. A Met Office outlook predicts plenty...
Shamima Begum, the Bethnal Green schoolgirl who fled to Syria and joined IS, has told Sky News she was groomed by friends and older men she...
The taxi driver who survived the Liverpool terror attack has said it is a “miracle that I’m alive” in his first statement since the explosion on...
People aged above 40 are being urged to get a booster jab to help keep their family and friends safe during the Christmas period, amid a...
Spiking coronavirus infections across Europe show the “critical” need for people in the UK get vaccinated, a government scientific adviser has told Sky News. Soaring cases...
Double child killer Colin Pitchfork has been arrested and recalled to prison, the Ministry of Justice has said. It comes two months after he was released...
London is on track for the worst year of teenage murders on record. “The people who are in the gangs don’t seem to have any care...
The government was not “fully prepared” for the “wide-ranging impacts” of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report, which found that Brexit both helped and...
A variant of the Delta virus that is more infectious, but is less likely to cause symptoms, now accounts for more than one in 10 COVID...
A man accused of murdering his girlfriend was recorded on a mobile phone as he repeatedly stabbed, strangled, and ran over her during a psychotic episode...