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New compensation scheme for Post Office victims is ‘half-baked’, Sir Alan Bates warns
Sir Alan Bates has told Sky News that the government's new Capture Redress Scheme is "half-baked".The Post Office scandal campaigner, who may also be a victim of Capture, accused...
Missed congeniality: Beauty pageant organiser accused of calling contestant a ‘dumbhead’
The organiser of Miss Universe has told Sky News he cannot stand down from his position - despite allegations he was aggressive towards a contestant.In a video that's now...
BlackRock to wind down fund that invested in failed car lender Tricolor
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Asset manager BlackRock is winding down a social impact fund that...
Israel receives hostage’s remains – as Turkey issues arrest warrants for 36 officials involved in the war
Israeli troops in Gaza have received the remains of another hostage. They have now been taken to the National Institute for Forensic Medicine to be examined. If it is...
Why US may soon have a real energy emergency
Donald Trump declared a questionable "national energy emergency" when he entered the White House. Soon, he may have one for real.The president promised his America would "drill, baby drill"...
How a cup of coffee led Sky News to a sex offender on the run
It started with a strong espresso in a simple cafe on a side street in north London.Several Algerian men were inside, a few others were outside on the pavement,...
COP’s potential for change limited not by who turned up, but by the elephants not in the room
The COP climate summit in Belem opened with a diplomatic double-whammy.The Prince of Wales and Sir Keir Starmer reaffirmed the UK's commitment to fighting climate change and urged the...
Why Sergei Lavrov’s absence is raising eyebrows
In Soviet times, Western observers would scrutinise video footage of state occasions, like military parades on Red Square, to try to learn more about Kremlin hierarchy.Who was positioned closest...
Ex-British soldier contests extradition over alleged murder of Kenyan woman
A former British soldier wanted by Kenyan authorities over an alleged 2012 murder has said he does not consent to extradition.Robert James Purkiss, 38, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court...
Nadjib, who tipped off police over escaped prisoner Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, tells Sky News he’s ‘happy to see him arrested’
"It's him, it's him, it's him", the man told me urgently.While police were frantically searching in Finsbury Park for wanted sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, locals were telling me where...
