A MANHUNT is underway for a Dublin criminal serving a jail term who escaped from a Dublin courthouse this morning. The man, who is aged in his late 20s and has close to 100 previous convictions, managed to escape from prison officers at the Cloverhill court complex. He is currently serving a five year jail […]
Two men, aged 19 and 21, had earlier been held over the death of Ayodeji Habeeb Azeez in a residential street in Anerley on Sunday. The pair were released under investigation. Met Police have said Mr Azeez, from Dagenham, was killed in the “middle of the day” in what “would normally have been a quiet […]
A manhunt has been launched after a 12-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted in a branch of Primark. The victim was shopping with a family member in Bury in the UK when she was allegedly groped in the town-centre clothing store, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said. The man “continued to follow the girl around” the […]
LONDON (AFP) – The woman targeted by Britain’s first Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO), who spent £16 million (S$28 million) in department store Harrods, will appear in court on Thursday as she fights an extradition request by Azerbaijan, prosectors said on Wednesday (Nov 7). Zamira Hajiyeva was arrested in London last week after an extradition request […]
PARIS — All week President Emmanuel Macron toured France’s World War I memory trail. He visited the killing fields of Verdun, the vast ossuary at Douaumont and the monument to heroic African soldiers at Reims. Each stop made the same solemn point: Nationalism kills. It is a message Mr. Macron hopes will not be lost […]
She took her family to visit them – Charles Young Mitchell, who is buried in France, and Augustus Holland Mitchell, who is buried in Belgium. Here, she tells Sky News what it was like visiting the graves of her distant relatives. For over 30 years our family had talked about visiting the graves of our […]
A Flybe flight plummeted 500ft in 18 seconds after an incorrect autopilot setting caused it to aim for the ground, an investigation has found. Forty-four passengers and four crew were on board the flight from Belfast City Airport to Glasgow Airport when the incident occurred shortly after take-off on January 11. A report by the […]
A Sinn Féin TD will not face any party sanction after avoiding a conviction for engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour while drunk to a garda after a noise complaint about a party at his house. Cork East TD Pat Buckley (49) had the Probation Act applied as he publicly apologised for his behaviour to […]
An asylum seeker who became pregnant following a relationship with a security guard at a Direct Provision centre has settled a High Court action over a refusal to register the father’s surname on the child’s birth certificate. The father’s surname been registered on the birth cert since she brought legal proceedings, the court heard. The […]
But while some have praised his dedication and campaigning zeal, others have accused him of trying to influence government policy. As the Prince of Wales forthrightly rejects suggestions he will be a “meddling monarch” when he ascends to the throne, Sky News look at the issues he has got involved in – and some of […]