COVID testing has been suspended at a private laboratory in Wolverhampton after an estimated 43,000 people were given incorrect results. An investigation was launched into reports...
Butchers and abattoir workers from overseas will be granted seasonal worker visas to deal with the backlog of pigs that need to be slaughtered, the government...
The government is expected to back down today in a row over visas for foreign butchers to prevent a mass cull of British pigs. A shortage...
GP surgeries will be named and shamed in league tables aimed at improving patients’ access to face-to-face appointments. Practices which fail to provide an “appropriate” level...
The situation at the UK’s largest commercial port is “improving” and Britons should shop normally for Christmas, a minister has told Sky News. Oliver Dowden’s comments...
Clashes have broken out between Hungary football fans and police during England’s World Cup qualifier at Wembley Stadium. The violence began after officers entered the away...
A minister has refused to apologise for the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, after a highly-critical report by MPs said thousands of lives were lost...
The family of a care worker who could have been saved following the Manchester Arena bombing has refused to accept an apology from the senior paramedic...
The Metropolitan Police are taking no further action after reviewing allegations connected to Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein. The force had assessed a document released in...
Four people have died, and a teenager left with life-threatening injuries, after a car crash in a village in Kent. Kent Police have issued an appeal...
COVID-19 and flu are co-circulating this year for the first time and those who catch both are twice as likely to die, early evidence suggests. Jenny...
The UK government has approved visas for a group of young female footballers from Afghanistan. The girls had fled to Pakistan after their country fell to...
A phone service to help protect women as they walk home is reportedly being backed by Home Secretary Priti Patel. The proposed service would allow people...
Around one in six adults in Britain have been unable to buy essential food items in the last fortnight, representing up to eight million people –...
Sky News is following the lives of three families who all face a difficult winter ahead. With energy and food bills rising, they say they are...
Council tax may need to rise by up to 5% a year for the next three years – the latest in a long list of warnings...
British dairy farmers say they have poured tens of thousands of litres of milk away due to the HGV driver shortage – and fear it is...
Boris Johnson will close his party’s conference in a rousing finale in which he will accuse his Tory predecessors of “drift and dither” and lacking the...
The mother of a teenager who was shot dead in the street says her hopes are fading that her son’s killer will ever be caught –...
More than seven years after Stephen Port committed murder for the first time, an inquest has begun into the deaths of his four victims. Port, 46,...